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Problem statement: Many teachers at my school teach different sections of the same course. To help with this, they crosslist their sections (which is great!). The problem is many of these sections occ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Having optional work is challenging to manage. Students can be assigned work as a whole, based on their needs according to the Mastery Path, or if a teacher knows that specific stud...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I teach a multisection lab course using Canvas, where different sections meet at different times and I am constantly having to set due dates (and times) for all the assignments base...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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it is quite time consuming to set a requirement for each page/task/discussion in a module. It would be logical to display the requirements for all the items in a module by default, rather than clickin...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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TLDR;  When using grade passback between Canvas and an SIS, differentiated assignments don't passback at all. This is not in the best interest of teachers and students and needs to work. Full Descript...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I am loving the new Reassign feature! It would be great if we could have a "Reassign to Students Who..." option (similar to "Message Students Who" in the gradebook) so that we could reassign to all st...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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To properly modify assignments and quizzes multiple versions must be created. This can cause issues in grading particularly when your instance is synced via an SIS. Why not have the ability to merge a...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When a page is given the module completion criteria "View the Item" it fails to record the page as viewed if the student uses the browser back button after reviewing the content. This seems like a ser...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When testing module completion requirements, I realized that 1) the same assignment listed under two different modules only shows the Mark Complete button when students navigate through the module wit...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Our teachers regularly use Sections to differentiate due dates and pacing for different groups of students. Adding students to a section is more cumbersome than in other LMSs we've used. Our teachers ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Greetings! I love modules for organizing and managing content. I always enable the module requirement "Students must move through requirements in sequential order." This setting allows students to see...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When adding Module completion requirements for a quiz, the options are confusing. Why does it say "submit the assignment" if we are creating a requirement for a quiz?Or is there some reason the code i...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently mastery paths only has 3 break out options, meaning you can only set up 3 paths.  I would like to see mastery paths allow for more break out options.

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently Mastery Paths only allows you to open assignments or pages.  But here is how I use them: Student takes a quiz.  Student passes quiz and gets a congratulations page Student almost passes quiz...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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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 ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It is easy to assign an assignment to select students. However, rather than just show "everyone" on assignments, it would be great if it could list all students in the course with a check box next to ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Your new "Assignment Allowed Attempts" feature is useful and aligns the behavior of assignments and quizzes in Canvas. Please consider adding the option of per-user-reattempts for assignments. This ca...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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In modules, you can edit the settings to add specific pre-requisites or other requirements. We are requesting to add a time element as a requirement. For example, FAA has a 'seat time' requirement. Th...

Community Novice 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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