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I have a teacher with a suggestion that I want to share on her behalf: On the Dashboard, have items listed in the To Do list color-coded so they match the course color and calendar....

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Now that flex and grid properties are available for use (Canvas Deploy Notes (2021-07-07) ) in the HTML editor, could we also add the alignment properties to the allow list? They are being stripped ou...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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It would be useful to be able to add Canvas Studio videos to Canvas Pages as links instead of embedded thumbnails, but still have the ability to view analytics for the video.  We would like to have ma...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Will there be a way to prettify the Student Application buttons? Since they are autopopulating from external tools, it doesn't seem like we have access to edit those buttons. The mock ups that were pr...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Currently, students and faculty are met by the equivalent of pop-up ads for whatever various groups at the school want announced. Announcements made of images that are often individually longer than t...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I really like the color overlay for courses I have created. However, I'm also enrolled in courses created by other instructors, who use colorful images. I have experimented with different color hex co...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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If student names are displayed in SpeedGrader, the default is first name, last name.  When a student has a particularly long first name or names, there is not enough space for the last name to be disp...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to change the entire font color for all text in an assignment to another color without changing the hyperlinks to that color. Or maybe a button can change the hyperlinks back t...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to view more than one month at the same time in the calendar window.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Can you please add a color picker tool to the Statuses screen? As a developer, even I have trouble remembering hex color values, let alone our faculty!

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I've had many instructors who have indicated that they cannot find the specific status color when looking at the Gradebook. It turns out that the applied color of a cell is different when it's in a ce...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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If I am working in a page, assignment, etc. where there are Studio videos, and I want to do something with the videos in the pages, it can be difficult because I can't see the title of the video.  So,...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Currently, assigned student group leaders are identified as the leader by a small icon next to their name.  Many students are not aware of the meaning of the icon and the wrong group members end up su...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In the New Rich Content Editor, the media recorder blocks the text/content behind it, so you cannot see or read what is on the screen.  {NOTE:  In the original RCE one could move the recording box in ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Please give teachers the ability to SELECT their preferred default font size in COURSE SETTINGS. There are many reasons that a teacher might want to use a larger font size, such as 14 font, throughout...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I'm an Instructional Designer who supports faculty using Canvas. In SpeedGrader, when an instructor enters a general comment but doesn't submit it, then navigates to a different student, the comment's...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently, if your institution has a theme style sheet, the styles are not viewable/applied in the Rich Content Editor while in Edit mode.  Only upon saving are you able to see styles applied from the...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Headers can be used to subdivide the activities in modules, but each header makes the module longer and longer.  To reduce scrolling for students, I suggest allowing the headers to be expanded and col...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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As outlined in the Canvas Guides (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-remove-an-enrollment-from-a-course/ta-p/742), "If an enrollment is created via SIS, only admins can remov...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Adding the "grade" column and or completion checkmark to the course summary screen that is embedded on the syllabus would allow students to quickly see what assignments they have already completed whe...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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