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Problem statement: Currently, the UI design principles of the web and mobile clients of Canvas are very different, with different iconography, fonts, features (like dark mode), design, and even differ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Is there a reason why the button for a student to start an assignment is labeled differently in web vs. mobile? It's "Start Assignment" for web and "Submit Assignment" for mobile. ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In the browser, the Assignment Group Weights are prominently displayed on the "Grades" page. This information is critical to understanding a student's performance and grade in a cla...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Average marks info is not displayed on the Canvas Teacher app (tested on iOS and Android) like it is on a PC. This feature is used a lot by our markers and they are having to revert to a PC/browser to...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be great if SpeedGrader would display assignment word count on a mobile device, like it does on a PC. Currently word count is only available in the doc viewer using a browser.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Students and instructors have noted a significant difference between how the iOS apps (both Teacher and Student) render some files and how they are rendered in the browser. Specifically a pptx file wh...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Feature suggestion: Add the option in the Canvas Teacher App for a teacher to be able to change the status of an assignment (missing, late, excused, none) within SpeedGrader. On October 16 SpeedGrader...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We now have the incredibly useful 'Launch SpeedGrader Filtered by Student Group' course setting. This is useful for splitting up grading of paper in SpeedGrader based on group, e.g for different grade...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Canvas parent app inbox messages are retained with no way to delete in-app.  The only way to delete dated/unwanted inbox messages is to log in as a parent via browser, delete the messages, then reset ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When using speed grader in a browser, a direct link to the assignment appears at the top.  When grading assignment using the teacher canvas app, there is no direct link to the assignment.  Please make...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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The Canvas Parent App needs to display assignment comments and rubric scores. This is a huge oversight of the app and an integral part of parent engagement in student learning, The purpose of assessme...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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We have recently started adding additional e-learning content to our courses in the form of SCORM packages (created and published using Articulate Rise). While these work beautifully on Canvas as view...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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At the moment, when using the web browser UI for Canvas, students can see a Calendar for their Course Groups and Account-level groups and events from these calendars are visible to them.   In the Stud...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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People>Groups not available in the phone app. I really could use this feature. Canvas web pages, I find, don't optimize well on mobile browsers, at least not on Droid phones.  On the phone app, there'...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I use my browser Canvas to create content, but I rely on the Teacher app to access the content for my courses when I'm in the classroom or otherwise away from my desk.  The Canvas features I need most...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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