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Problem statement: When I select a group discussion, I am taken to the appropriate "Group" discussion area as expected. However, to return to the Discussion landing page, I have to either click on the...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, Teachers can hide Course Navigation links from students to de-clutter, but they cannot remove links for themselves. This means that instructors see all of the tools they ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The Pages course navigation link/shortcut sends course builders first to the Home/Front Page, requiring an extra step/upper button click to reach the global list of all course pages...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When I go to Settings --> Navigation I see all of the options for all of the teachers in my district. I am in the fifth largest district in the US. There are many choices. There are...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our workflow involves navigating between term blueprints and associated courses when making updates. Each blueprint course shows the number of associations in the upper right corner...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, there is no central location where students can access all rubrics for the course. They can only access them through the individual assignments, which is not always easy,...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Please can you put tabs for saving, publishing, etc at both the top and bottom of the page? the current format is not at all user friendly.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I've been using the Learning Mastery Gradebook for years, and only just discovered the export feature.  I still sometimes get lost in the Learning Mastery display, unable to find the button to switch ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Could you please make the 'global menu bar' on the left side a different color in the beta so we know we are in it?

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Getting to a course calendar from a course is a small link and makes it feel as though course calendars are a lower-importance, de-prioritized part of Canvas. A way to help this would be to make it ea...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When in "student view" of a Canvas course I have the option to select the calendar associated with this course via the following selection:             But a similar option is not available when I vi...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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The admin course search previously included a last page hyperlink to jump to the last page. Speaking to Canvas support, we understand that this functionality was removed to improve the performance of ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Grade sync shows the errors.  It does not have a link to the assignment or quiz.  I then have to search my course for that item.  It is a pain.   Even more recently this became worse, when the item wa...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I would like to see comments that work more like comments in Google Docs. I should be able to link the comment to the specific spot in the student submission so they know exactly where in their essay ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Students who are not used to our regular courses often have a hard time finding their way back when they have logged out. We would like a "Sign in" button on the course detail page for already registe...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Every time that I receive or send a message I need to first identify the course. The label associated with a course that has several sections are all the same even though I assign distinctive nickname...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Every item in a canvas course has a "Previous" and a "Next" except for the last item in a course which does not have a "Next". SpeedGrader should behave similarly. When the Speedgrader setting is disp...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When I'm using the Rich Content Editor and inserting a hyperlink, I'd like to be able to link to the "Outcomes" area of the course. But while the other course areas (e.g., "Home", "Announcements", "Sy...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem: Each semester a few students are confused when they fall behind and the next button brings them to an assignment that is no longer available due to being past the "until" date.  Since "studen...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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If I am working in a page or an assignment and need to deal with an embedded video in Studio, it can be a pain to navigate there.  It would be lovely to be able to somehow click on a video and go dire...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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