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I would love for my students t be able to access modules, assignments, pages through just my homepage even though I have disabled the assignment, module, pages link in the course navigation. I wanted ...

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For the mobile app, I’d like to request swipe gestures such as deleting, archiving, or flagging inbox messages, or additional tasks that might be relevant on other pages.     Comments from Instructure...

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The new gradebook is amazing! We love the filtering capabilities! But something has come to my attention. The gradebook defaults to showing grades only for the current grading period UNLESS you go Vie...

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The formula based questions are an essential tool for math based courses, but there is a big limiting factor. Formula questions work on a set of defined variables input by the teacher. I would like to...

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Currently, global announcements are sorted by end date, with the longest running announcement at the top. As we kick-off our semester start, we're relying heavily on announcements to communicate infor...

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When inserting external links into modules, can we get the ability to schedule the availability to the students like assignments?  There are review videos that I want the student's to see will be avai...

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As the title says, it is becoming more and more essential to have the option as an instructor to select that only graded assignments appear in the grades page (or, even better, choose which assignment...

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As a student, instructors can add assignments to the calendar so that we can see. Once we complete the assignment, the assignment title on the calendar can be crossed out. It would be helpful to have ...

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I  am updating my course for the upcoming academic year and I have stumbled upon a major roadblock regarding quizzes.  With the Classic Quizzes set to disappear next summer, it doesn't seem worth my w...

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On this page "https://sjsu.instructure.com/courses/<course_id>/users" add a column (or columns) to show which group a student has been assigned to. At the moment we have: Name, Login ID, SIS ID, Secti...

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I would like to be able to set my default gradebook view. For example, I prefer to always use "Module first to last" for each gradebook. In the gradebook settings, I can't set this as my preferred vie...

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I love the media recording submissions. I just wish there was an option to pause rather than stop and rerecord. I do simulated conversations in my World Language classroom. I would like them to pause ...

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When I add people to my course, I see a setting that allows them to interact with students in their section only. I don't know what checking this box would mean since it appears that they would still ...

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In the New Analytics tool it would be very useful to be able to personalize the content of the messages to include the student's name. For example: Hello {{First_Name}}, I wanted to congratulate you o...

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Under Permissions, we can prevent students from sending messages to the entire class OR to individual course members. We must have an option to allow students to message their teacher! There needs to ...

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Here's something that's irk'ed me for a few years... We allow access by Students and Instructors to the last 9 semesters of courses.  We always have this issue for Instructors when a Term Ends: "I hav...

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We add users to courses using the People/+People button inside of our courses.For users who are brand new to Canvas - this sends them an email inviting them to register for a Canvas account. The user ...

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The admin tools - view notifications feature is really helpful - unfortunately - it doesn't show communication to pending users.When you add a student to a course (who is brand new to Canvas) by using...

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I would like to see a formula question where the variable values can be generated by a formula, and does not necessarily have to be numeric.  Likewise, answers do not necessarily have to be numeric.  ...

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There needs to be a way to set up a formula question so that a variable can pick from a set, rather than simply being assigned a random value in a range.  For example, if I wrote a question which says...

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