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Problem statement: Today I added one instructor 14 different Canvas course sections (Sections A through N). The instructor only received a course invite for Section A and Section A was the only sectio...

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Problem statement: E-mail notifications of Inbox messages sent to students via Canvas do not show the subject line from Canvas in the subject line of the e-mail notification. The only text that shows ...

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Problem statement: I have worked as an Admin for a few years now and did not know until today that when a profile picture is reported that it goes into an area for admins to approve or delete. There a...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Alert disappears after a while instead of being persistent when unusually high points are awarded during grading in speedgrader and course gradebook. Feature https://community.canva...

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Problem statement: A continual issue I'm seeing with student view is that instructors are utilizing student view to see what a student sees, but it doesn't actually replicate what the student sees. Fo...

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Problem statement: Canvas admins have the ability to edit institutional grading schemes from the “View Grading Schemes” area in a course’s settings. When editing an institutional grading scheme throug...

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Problem statement: When submitting an assignment in the updated assignment interface, a green check mark appears next to a file once it has been uploaded. However, this check mark does not indicate th...

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Problem statement: In Classic Quizzes, students can see when their responses have been saved recently so that they can ensure that all the answers are saved automatically while continuing writing. Rec...

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Problem statement: When instructors create an Appointment Group in their Canvas Calendar and decide to delete one of the time-slotted events, they are provided with a confirmation/warning message to e...

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While the idea of differentiated assignments is a good one, the sign posting for differentiation could be better. When a student has to resubmit work inevitably a new date has to be assigned. This can...

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Problem statement: The password of some users was not updated during an SIS Import due to the following: - If the password has been set by the user or a previous sis import https://canvas.instructure....

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Problem statement: Users shouldn't be able to save an announcement if it lacks a title. Currently, if an announcement lacks a title, Canvas defaults to adding, "No Title" to the announcement and allow...

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Problem statement: We have students submit on paper in class, but have it set to accept online submissions so absent students can submit items to the actual assignment link if they are not in class. T...

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Problem statement: We would love to have a reminder sent to students on the morning of an appointment. Our music department uses the appointment feature to schedule lessons, but students often forget ...

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Problem statement: As an admin, I need explicit control over changes I make. Autosaving on leaving the field does not provide confirmation of the action, nor allow control over it. Proposed solution:...

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Problem statement: New Quizzes Accommodations show “all course assessments” despite only applying to New Quizzes Proposed solution: The ability to apply accommodations across numerous assessments wit...

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Problem statement: Modules can be set to require that students move through the content sequentially. However, if the course designer forgets to hide the Pages link in the navigation, the View All Pag...

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Problem statement: I'm part of the online learning support team at a university and ran into an issue with an instructor recently that I feel could've been avoided if the right info was provided to th...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When copying content from other courses, any group assignment/discussion gets assigned to "project groups" as the default. It would be nice to have a warning after import to let the user know what ass...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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We have been having an issue whereby grading staff are failing to fully complete rubrics when grading work in SpeedGrader. Because the rubric is often applied with the setting 'Use this rubric for ass...

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