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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 2/n First, the data export from the gradebook is insane. 1st row: (terrible) variable names, 2nd (incomplete) row: point totals, THEN the actual data begins. I’m writing a data cleaning script, but for my midterm grades I had to use the embedded gradebook.

10/30/2018, 5:15:48 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 3/n Then, the embedded gradebook is super glitchy on chrome. Grades and names jump around as you scroll, to the point that I had to print out my gradebook to see it properly. But… no print interface.

10/30/2018, 5:16:11 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 4/n If you change the point total for an assignment, it rescales all currently-graded assignments properly, but anything that gets submitted after that point gets rescaled wrong.

10/30/2018, 5:16:30 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 5/n There seems to be no way to change the order of assignments in the gradebook. Mine are *mostly* ordered by category, but the last four are by due date.

10/30/2018, 5:16:45 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 6/n If you have a category with many assignments that haven't been submitted yet, it calculates the grade total as if the (one, one-point assignment) that has already been submitted is the entire category, instead of looking at the overall category total.

10/30/2018, 5:17:37 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 7/n They've gone publish-button wild! If I share a file with students, I need to hit "publish" in at least three places (folder containing the file, the file itself, and the module the file is in). If I miss one, it's invisible to them, and there's no interface warning.

10/30/2018, 5:18:35 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 8/8 And don't even get me started on the iPad app. You can't see GRADES or MODULES, the two most useful parts of Canvas. Aaaaargh!

10/30/2018, 5:19:10 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 9/n There should be a way to go through and select multiple students to add to "sections"

2/12/2019, 5:04:25 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 10/n You should be able to rename a file with something that is user-friendly so instead of STAT220-C1S1.pdf they can see a label that says "Lecture notes Chapter 1 Section 1"

2/12/2019, 5:06:16 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 11/n WHY does publishing a module automatically publish everything inside it?

2/25/2019, 4:38:23 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 12/n This is more of a feature request than a bug report, but I'd love to be able to SpeedGrader through a *student* rather than through an *assignment.* E.g., I have a student who submitted a number of assignments late, and I'd like to just whiz through all of them at once.

5/31/2019, 1:12:58 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 13/n Another feature request: a way to see all the grades I've given for an assignment, along with comments (at least the first few words), at the same time. Graded someone, left a comment, now I'm writing the same comment and want to make sure the grade is consistent.

6/2/2019, 12:09:51 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 14/n I'd like the ability to "Save as Draft" on an Announcement. I know I could write it somewhere else and copy-paste in when I'm ready to send, but that's so burdensome!

10/4/2019, 2:29:18 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 15/n Apparently, there is no way to export New Quizzes as PDF or Word documents (even by using "print to PDF" through the browser). This is an accessibility issue, and is going to make my third-year review prep extremely challenging.

8/25/2020, 11:49:46 AM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 16/n The way to get Canvas to consider new features is to post about them online. There used to be a "vote" feature, but that seems to have disappeared. Now you can "star" an issue, or comment on it. But either way, new feature requests rarely/never get implemented!

8/25/2020, 11:50:40 AM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 16b/n See this feature request for printable new quizzes, opened in **2015** and still not addressed: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Printable-PDF-exportable-quizzes/idi-p/369693
This similar question is marked "solved" because there is some hacky workaround script: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Question-Forum/Printing-from-New-Quizzes/m-p/199487

8/25/2020, 11:52:44 AM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 17/n The Canvas inbox is the most useless thing ever. If there is a Zoom integration for the course, it gets flooded with messages about Zoom (no way to turn that off!) and the unread messages notification is extremely laggy, so I always feel like I've missed something.

9/24/2020, 3:12:15 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 18/n (May have complained about this before) If you have a quiz with any auto-graded questions, Canvas considers the quiz "graded" immediately. No way to flag the ones you still need to go through to manually grade. Disheartening not to have stats, and scary you can miss one!

1/3/2021, 9:33:02 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 19/n Let's say you give an exam (using New Quizzes) out of 100 points, and then want to adjust it to be out of 97 points to shift the mean up. There's no way to do it! You can change it to 97 points but it just makes a 97/100 into a 94/97, maintaining the %.

4/30/2021, 10:05:46 AM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle You can "curve" an assignment, but that changes the entire distribution, and may adjust some grades downward. I have never in my career wanted to do that.

4/30/2021, 10:06:18 AM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 20/n If you grade a quiz after the term ends (like most faculty do??), the grades won't update in your gradebook. To fix, just adjust the end date of your course, then go back through each student, add an additional point, remove the additional point, and click update.

12/30/2021, 2:32:54 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 21/n Every now and then, all of the CSS in Canvas completely glitches and my course page becomes this. No idea what causes it, and only fix I have found is to clear cache and cookies.

2/14/2022, 4:05:25 PM

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