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Problem statement: When we're commenting on student submissions, its common for a problematic, or exemplary passage/quotation/sentence to begin near the bottom of one page and continue to the next. Ri...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It takes several individual clicks to either mark assignments missing, excused, or zero them out. In our previous LMS, there was a "batch update" function that allowed teachers to s...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: SpeedGrader is very slow at loading assignments. Gradescope is able to load assignments in less than a second. SpeedGrader is consistently taking 4 seconds per assignment. Sometimes...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In Speedgrader, the sections drop-down displays in order of creation. This leads to an inconsistent user experience and can make it difficult for teachers to find the appropriate se...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Wasted screen space on Gradebook view Inefficient / excessive steps to select Section in Gradebook view Proposed solution: Allow option to deselect current permanent view of "Stude...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: One of the notes made in the "how do I automatically assign peer reviews" instructor guide states: "If a student has not submitted the assignment or submits the assignment after the...

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Problem statement: As an instructor, currently there is no way to download the peer reviews for the peer-reviewed assignments. Proposed solution: For each peer-reviewed assignment, allow download of ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Please go back to the old way of allowing cross-listed classes to be viewed separately in the gradebook. When I first started using Canvas (during COVID), I could cross-list my clas...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We still have instructors who would like to test in their structured environments. Currently, they use Scantrons and have to manually enter grades into the Canvas Gradebook. Propos...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: There's no ability to post individual grades in Gradebook. The section feature is great, but it'd be great to be able to release individual grades (and leave others hidden e.g. when...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Speedgrader contains a parameter for similarity originality_report[originality_score]. However, now we have AI detectors that provide another score based on the same work, so teache...

Partner Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently when the setting to filter speedgrader by groups ("Launch SpeedGrader Filtered by Student Group" setting in course settings) is turned on it applies to every assignment, e...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas assignments can be set up to take submissions for direct marking, as well as to explicitly NOT take submissions but still have a rubric attached. A good example to illustrate...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Please move the new "Submit for Student" option in the Grade Book to ABOVE "Speed Grader" option. It was great having "Speed Grader" at the bottom to get their quickly, now I spend ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When instructors create filters within the Gradebook, they would like these filters to still be applied when they are in Speedgrader. For example, the instructor has created multipl...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I want to be able to quickly click through assignments students have done. Instead, to show students multiple assignments from my class, I have to click on each assignment separatel...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The only way to scroll horizontally through my gradebook is to first scroll down, then there is a TINY bar I have to click and hold quickly before it disappears again. It is ridicul...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students are being increasingly asked to submit citations to back-up their work, especially now as more artificial intelligence applications are being used by students. However, che...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When an assignment is set up both to be worth 0 points, and to have letter grades entered, grades are saved in an unintuitive way, which results in a loss of data when attempting to...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: A text column in the gradebook would be helpful for Teachers who wish to calculate their more intricate grading systems outside of Canvas and then enter "A, B, C, or D." This text c...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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