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Problem statement: Instructors are currently able to manually enter grades in the SpeedGrader grade field, even when a letter grade scale is selected for the assignment. This causes two significant is...

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Problem statement: Point Polyserial Correlation for SATA (Select All That Applies) type questionsProposed solution:Calculate and export in Quiz Anaytics and Statistics. User role(s):admin,instructor

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Problem statement: I generate and publish fortnightly activity reports for our school, focusing on both course and student engagement. Currently, Admin Analytics only allows data exports that are cumu...

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Problem statement: We have a closed gradebook at our school, except for one-week each semester. But we still need grades to passback to our SIS (Blackbaud). However, grades can currently only pass bac...

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Problem statement: Text headers in modules are great, but they could be so much more if they acted more like mini-pages within the module flow.Proposed solution:Enable the RCE / HTML editor for text h...

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Problem statement: Being able to declare appropriate line break opportunities with the <wbr> tag would improve clarity and readability. This is particularly important when authoring responsive content...

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Problem statement: When a Canvas Studio video is shared via a public link, viewers only see the player controls (play, seek, volume, speed, quality, keyboard shortcuts). The video’s title and descript...

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Problem statement: I have a student who needed a makeup exam that was different from the exam their peers took. I created this exam, and excused thru the gradebook all students in the class from it w...

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Problem statement: If I am inputting grades for assignments on paper, or through speedgrader it takes too much time to scroll through all the student's names when you have one large section. For examp...

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Problem statement: Having a safe draft feature for composing new announcements would be AWESOME! Too often I have left the announcement incomplete before posting and have lost it have had to start all...

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Problem statement: I would like to create a formula problem in which I can randomize one or more variables, and ask students to answer multiple questions using that same set of random variables. Curre...

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Problem statement:  AI-infused web browsers can readily compromise academic integrity.Proposed solution:Could Instructure add AI prompt injections into pages to its LMS (quizzes, assignments, discussi...

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Problem statement: When users in our Canvas instance have been assigned a admin type role at the root account, it doesn't allow them to be added to a professional development course as a student. We ...

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Problem statement: Within the Canvas Teacher app and Canvas app, there is no “Collapse All” button in the Modules view as there is in the web version. Without this option, users must scroll through ea...

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Problem statement: Canvas Studio's auto-captioning feature is a fantastic tool for accessibility. However, it currently only generates captions in the video's original spoken language. We have many s...

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Problem statement: Our school allows students to view their past courses quizzes so they can review for future courses or study for licensing/certification exams. With Old Quizzes, this feature is sti...

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Problem statement: Currently, you can only add an outcome to a full rubric. This creates inaccurate reporting in the learning mastery outcome as all the criteria on the rubric do not align with the le...

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Problem statement: Assignment checked "does not count toward final grade" still shows in the gradebook Proposed solution: Create another "add" to a module (or as a part of assignment) that allows for...

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Problem statement: Viewing attendance records to date is a cumbersome and time consuming making paper records a more user friendly option. Furthermore, students aren't able to view their attendance at...

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Problem statement: Several of our courses use Graded Surveys for Midterm and Final reflection assignments. These Surveys have students research and report their current grades by assignment types, and...

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