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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 ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Working at the Elementary level, having all of the old work and assignments displayed on the module page will just become more and more difficult for students to navigate to find their current assignm...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I'm not sure if there is already a way to do this but it would be nice if the last page of the module instead of saying "Next" and going to a new module it said "Home" and took you back to the home pa...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Elementary Modules need to be able to work differently than secondary or college level. Students do not always move through modules. We need a way to put an end page to a module or a stop button so st...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We have graphics on our home page which link directly to the different modules in our course and when we click it takes us to the module page but you can also see all of the other modules at the same ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  Amended after comments and questions from  @James ‌. TL;DR Instructors should be able to add a module progress barAmendment: Instructors should be able to add a module progress bar that includes the...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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This is a feature that I was expecting to find in Canvas because I have used it in D2L Brightspace. A checklist is something that is added to a module and created by the instructor. Here's an article ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I have had several students request that they have the ability to "check off" and "flag" certain items within a modules.  They would like to be able to "check off" when something is completed and flag...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  Students need a way to pin (or perhaps bookmark) where they are leaving off in a module so they can quickly return to that location on subsequent login.   This previously posted idea Bookmark is int...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently in Canvas, when a module is locked until a specific date/time, students can see the module title and contents (although they cannot access them). Some faculty would like the option to hide t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be very helpful if you could insert "Back" and "Next" buttons at the top of module item pages. This would eliminate the need to scroll down through long pages in order to move to the next mod...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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With courses that have many modules and module items, the default un-collapsed state on the modules page makes the view overwhelming. I would love the option to choose a 'current' module and have that...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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It would be great if the breadcrumb trail would follow your navigation correctly when you are working in modules rather than switching to "page", "discussions", "assignments" or whatever you click on....

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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