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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Problem statement: In Speedgrader, teachers are discovering that when they are trying to switch from one Section to another, that the other se...

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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS   Problem statement: The new SpeedGrader update causes teachers to add extra clicks in order to switch from one section to another. Propos...

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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS   Problem statement: The Canvas Discussions team has stated that group discussions do not work with the new Checkpoints feature. Many faculty...

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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Problem statement: In student view, when I open a discussion, I have to click the 3 dot button at the top right to translate text. Then it pro...

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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS   Problem statement: When Discussion Checkpoints was enabled at our institution, it changed the way Discussions appear in Speedgrader and remo...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Problem statement: When a student submits their response to a new quiz essay question, the next page will show the student the submission resu...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Problem statement: In the old discussions users were able to grab a URL to specific posts in a discussion board (see https://community.canvasl...

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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Problem statement: In the current version, discussions default to sorting from newest to oldest with replies collapsed. Consequently, in discu...

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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Problem statement: When creating a peer reviewed discussion, the Reviews Due field does not mean the date when reviews are due. It means the d...

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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Problem statement: As Canvas administrators, we want to be able to see what applications have been enabled and used in which courses over a gi...

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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Problem statement: In the 18 June 2024 deploy, admins could enable users to add a name pronunciation to their Canvas profile. Some schools may...

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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Problem statement: When "Disable comments on announcements" is turned on at the course level settings, the option for "disallow threaded repli...

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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Problem statement: Problem to Solve: As a third-party software company, we need access to Canvas LMS APIs that retrieve student responses and ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In cd1 there are course navigation tables that make it possible to understand the structure of the navigation in Canvas courses. This data is missing from cd2 and replaced by `cours...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Problem statement: We would like to see an option for setting your own view of the discussions redesign. Right now you have to change it for e...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently the thumbnail for images is required for an instructor to post an asset to Canvas Commons. I acknowledge this requirement ensures that scrolling through content within Com...

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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Studio Problem statement: With the recent Studio updates from August 7, 2024, there does not appear to be a way to manage Studio Admins. I would l...

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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS   Problem statement: In New Quizzes, I can’t see which quiz I am working on (aside from remembering and/or assuming I clicked on the correct o...

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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Problem statement: Messaging from the gradebook now includes more options as reasons and defaults to ¨Students who have submitted¨. If other t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Problem statement: In the "legacy" discussions format, each individual post showed in it's own box, and the posts in a thread displayed with b...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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