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Problem statement: Hello, As instructional designers, some of the instructional videos we create, using Studio, should be available to all faculty at our institution. Hence, we need to put them at the...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently if you share a Canvas Studio with someone else, the quiz will not move with them. At my institution, this is a problem because more than one person edits a course. In addi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Problem: Studio's video quiz functions allows users to create interactive content over the lecture videos. But the quizzes must be individually created at given time stamps. Given a...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: There are no forward/rewind buttons available in Canvas Studio.  Proposed solution: The simple addition of these buttons on the videos would allow Visually Impaired students using ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: For videos in Canvas Studio, which I post to pages, I receive data in "Insights" about students who have watched the video. It also includes the percentage that they watched, with a...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When Studio videos are submitted for assessment, markers cannot leave comments on the video timeline as these comments are immediately visible to students. Comments should not be vi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I suggest that Canvas develop a Chrome Extension for Canvas Studio. There are so many times when reporting a bug or wanting to share my Canvas tip to a teacher that I need to record my screen. I love ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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YouTube videos uploaded to Canvas Studio need to have some option to carry over the subtitles from YouTube or even an option to manually type out subtitles. For personal videos, this isn't a problem, ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In Canvas Studio when using the Studio LTI app in the RCE and choosing a video from My Uploads library, there are two tabs: Standard Embed (assuming Commenting Enabled) and Video Quiz Embed. You can c...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hello fine Canvas Studio folks!  Us Admins are here to beg express our desire to have an Admin Analytics Dashboard.  I personally have been asking for this feature since our baby was born and named Ar...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We use Studio to teach new concepts using video instruction with embed quiz questions into the video to gauge students' understanding of what they watched. Currently, students have to watch the entire...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It would be helpful if an instructor could update a Studio quiz correct answer choice after students have taken the quiz. If an instructor accidentally selects a different correct answer than intended...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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tl;dr Need to be able to move Studio videos to Collections after using the Search.   The new Studio Collections (also How do I create a collection in Canvas Studio? and How do I view a collection in C...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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I would like to prevent students from fast forwarding the canvas studio quiz videos.  Please allow teachers to use a toggle button to disable fast forward. Edpuzzle offers this "prevent skipping" feat...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I would like the ability to add formulas/equations into my questions in the Canvas Video Studio.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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