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Problem statement: Problem My courses use the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as Outcomes. As such, the names of the Outcomes are alphanumeric identifiers, and are largely meaningless to students...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Existing outcome grading options don't satisfy my requirements for measuring proficiency The existing "measure [n] times" grading won't show _anything_ until the student has _met_ ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The outcomes we use in Canvas are on a 4/3/2/1/0 scale. The ratings of 4/3/2/1 are clean cut for rating student performance on an outcome on a single assignment. However, when score...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Power Law is used to accurately measure a student's progress toward the standard at any time. PL gives the most recent assignments each term greater weight than earlier efforts towa...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Teachers are interested in more 'authority' in evaluating student's Course Average for Learning Mastery Outcomes. They want the ability to have some assignments count more heavily t...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When students take quizzes and are looking at their results, all they see is which questions they got wrong/right. On the teacher's end, I get to see the outcomes analysis which is ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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As an instructor, I use backwards design to develop the learning content within my courses. While I can add outcomes to assignments with rubrics and quizzes, I am not able to connect outcomes to addit...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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As users of standards-based grading, we would like to be able to do the following in New Analytics: See a graph (and data table) of students' progress toward mastery of outcomes (individually and coll...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Background: The table Learning Mastery (under Grades) is a good tool to see the students' current status in a course. In my country the different course criteria are the deciding factors for the final...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to have some data (in Canvas analytics or Canvas data at least) about the requirements in each module. For example X student   has viewed 80% of the items in Module Y.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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User story: As an instructor, I want to measure Outcome achievement automatically while grading with a Rubric. Why is this needed? For assignments used to help document student achievement of Outcomes...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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The current columns in the student outcomes report are "attempts" "latest score" and "percentage". These columns do not give us a sense of the students' mastery in the outcome, which is an important p...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I don't see a way to create multiple sub-outcomes within an outcome in Canvas. We we design courses, learning designers always disconstruct a main learning goal into several sub-learing objectives whi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Instead of having to check the box "Allow use in Mastery Paths" for each individual page you want to include in a Mastery Path, it would be nice if Pages were automatically an option for what you can ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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At Skyline College faculty are required to assess outcomes on a regular basis. We do not look at individuals per se, but instead we look at the class as a whole and gather statistics about what percen...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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