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[Outcomes] Repository for Outcomes

Problem statement: Since I am not considered a field admin in our organization, it's difficult to get our CTO, who has a number of different hats to quickly request items from our CSM (such as standar...
Status: Open Submitted by 11-30-2022 Comments: 1

[SIS] Add the ability to Sync/Unsync items by Due Date

Problem statement: Right now, the ability to Sync and Unsync assignments is done one by one. While this is beneficial in many ways, it does create a time sink around the end of a grading period/quarte...
Status: Open Submitted by 11-28-2022 Comments: 2

[Calendar] Sync To Do items to Calendar iCal feed

It would be great if the To Do items would sync with other events, assignments in calendar feeds. Students should expect their Canvas calendar and their synchronized calendars in other apps to show th...
Status: Open Submitted by 11-20-2022 Comments: 1

[Course Settings] Setting for Viewing Grades

Problem statement: Coming from previous LMS (Moodle), faculty were easily able to set how students view all of their grades and not just the total column. This left for very little confusion as points...
Status: Open Submitted by 11-18-2022 Comments: 3

[SIS] Bring Back Late Designations in Passback

Prior to the PowerSchool API, assignments that were synced to PowerSchool that carried a late designation came over from Canvas to PowerSchool. This feature was lost in the transition to the new Powe...
Status: Open Submitted by 11-17-2022 Comments: 1

[SIS] Gradebook Needs to Sync Individuals via new PowerSchool API

If one is differentiating assignments, which is strong education practice, it is important that these assignments be able to be synced to particular students, not just sections. The PowerSchool API d...
Status: Open Submitted by 11-17-2022 Comments: 1

[Partnerships] SafeExam

Problem statement: Moving from the Moodle platform our school was used to using the SafeExam Browser for our exam proctoring needs. It was relativly easy to deploy to students and teachers,native with...
Status: Open Submitted by 11-15-2022 Comments: 1

[New Quizzes] Make it clear that stimulus titles are visible to students

Problem statement: In New Quizzes, all item types with the exception of stimulus have an optional title field. In the case of the stimulus type, the title is required. Also, unlike other item types, t...
Status: Open Submitted by 11-15-2022 Comments: 1

[New Quizzes] Keep quiz and corresponding assignment title synched

Problem statement: In new quizzes, the initial title given to the quiz is applied to both the quiz and the corresponding LTI assignment. After that, if edits are made to the title of the quiz or vice ...
Status: Open Submitted by 11-12-2022 Comments: 2

[Gradebook Settings] Capping grade on second attempts

Use case: An instructor wants to allow an additional attempt on multiple assignments but wants the grade to be capped at 80% of the score on the second attempt with the highest grade standing. Current...
Status: Open Submitted by 11-09-2022 Comments: 1

[New Quizzes] Allow instructors to lock and unlock an available quiz

Problem statement: In classic quizzes, teacher have the option to "Lock this quiz now", which allows to see the quiz in the assignments and quizzes tools, but not open it. This feature is useful for s...
Status: Open Submitted by 11-02-2022 Comments: 3

[Discussions] Discussion Notification for my own post

Problem statement: There is a notification setting for "Announcement Created By You" so that a teacher receives an email notification of their own announcement. There is NOT a notification setting so ...
Status: Open Submitted by 10-28-2022 Comments: 3

[New Quizzes] Item Bank Sharing - Add user identifiers

Problem statement: It is difficult to identify users in the Item Bank sharing menu. When sharing Item Banks with a person who shares a name with someone else (John Doe and John Doe), it will only show...
Status: Open Submitted by 10-27-2022 Comments: 1

[New Quizzes] Include of Label of Item Bank on Individual Questions

Problem statement: When a quiz is built by adding individual questions from multiple item banks, instructors can not tell which questions were pulled from which bank. (NOTE if you use the “all or rand...
Status: Open Submitted by 10-27-2022 Comments: 2

[New Quizzes] Allow outcomes to be aligned with item banks

Problem statement: In Classic quizzes, it was possible to align one or more outcomes with a question bank. In New Quizzes, outcomes be aligned with the entire quiz or individual questions, not banks. ...
Status: Open Submitted by 10-26-2022 Comments: 3

[New Quizzes] Dynamic Quizzes

Problem statement: There is currently no functionality in either quiz engine to create dynamic quizzes that adjust (during the quiz) based on student performance. An example of how this could be used ...
Status: Open Submitted by 10-26-2022 Comments: 5

[Announcements] Discrepancies in display of announcement dates (created vs. published)

Problem statement: We observe a strange discrepancy between the date and time that announcements in Canvas are scheduled for (= published on), and the actual dates that are registered for announcement...
Status: Open Submitted by 10-25-2022 Comments: 1

[New Quizzes] Why does Deleting an Assignment also Delete a Quiz File

Problem statement: As currently configured, if I delete an Assignment (a quiz), Canvas also deletes the quiz from the course. This makes little sense to me. I should be able to have a quiz that I spen...
Status: Open Submitted by 10-20-2022 Comments: 1

[Mobile - Canvas Student] Canvas app on Mac OS

Problem statement: Hi, I'm a student who just got started with Canvas and I love the Canvas Mobile app on my iOS devices, I'm wondering if there's a way to port Canvas Mobile or an app with similar fu...
Status: Open Submitted by 10-18-2022 Comments: 2

[New Quizzes] Show correct answers only after last allowed attempt

Problem statement: To encourage students to think through their errors, I like to give them multiple attempts without showing them the correct answers. It would be nice to show them the correct answer...
Status: Open Submitted by 10-14-2022 Comments: 2