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Problem statement: As an Admin I would like to have the option to delete student submissions in bulk. There are instances where as Admin we need to bulk delete Students Submissions from an assignme...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: There is no way to disable the new feature displaying course SIS IDs on the Global Navigation course tray. Since many institutions provision courses via SIS integration, these SIS I...

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Problem statement: The new assignments enhancements only displays the points possible in the submission window for assignments that specifically have points. If the assignment is set to 'percentage' o...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We are using a vanity URL to provide access to the Canvas instance and are able to customize the sender email for notifications. However, the email address remains as and causes co...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: As was the case with many settings pages in Canvas, often the user had to scroll to the bottom of the page (if they remembered to) to save an update to settings. This continues to b...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When you Message All Unassigned Students in a Group Set in the People tool, you can not add a Subject. Canvas does not include a Subject either and the message reads as (No subject)...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently a practice quiz copied from classic quizzes to new quizzes is automatically set-up with zero points and not showing up in the gradebook. The problem is that classic quizz...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I recorded several video comments. Videos were taking longer and longer to finish uploading, and there was no "loading" message on the recorder popup so I didn't know they weren't s...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In Speed Grader on Canvas, there is a button that you can press to "reassign" an assignment to the student. This button does not exist in the Canvas Teacher App for IPad. This would...

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Problem statement: In the "legacy" discussions format, each individual post showed in it's own box, and the posts in a thread displayed with boxes connected. In the "new" format, there's nothing to v...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have discovered a significant issue with Canvas LMS regarding the inclusion of test student exam submissions in the item analysis for New Quizzes. After a lengthy follow up with ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When selecting which calendars are displayed in the calendars area you are presented with a list of every course that you are enrolled into. Some of our Instructors have 60 - 70 cou...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: There is no way to indicate group membership of Modules other than to add a text header or state a superordinate category label at the beginning of the title. I wish there were. Pr...

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Problem statement: Teachers/Instructors can change the format (online, hybrid, face to face) of the course despite it being pre-loaded via SIS integration. This may affect reporting like Impact/Admin ...

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Problem statement: Currently, this is what's happening to collected from a user that enrolls in courses listed in different subcatalogs. Here's an example. Subcatalog A admin Joe created UDF for “Stat...

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Problem statement: A teacher informed me today that students cannot see the annotations left on Google assignments in Speedgrader. I asked Canvas Support if the annotation feature could be removed and...

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Problem statement: For institutions that have very large subaccount structures, it would be useful for a admin to search for the subaccount and access a subaccount, instead of having to navigate the s...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Actualmente en Canvas, se crean anuncios globales filtrando para roles a nivel de curso y cuenta, pero no permite crear Anuncios para periodos especificos. Proposed solution: Seria...

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Problem statement: In our current setup, each week of our course is organized into a single module, and we often need specific items within these modules to be unlocked based on student interactions l...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, while the Users tab in Analytics in Catalog can display accounts registered via Catalog or Canvas LMS, a subcatalog admin can only see users registered via Catalog. Our i...

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