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I'm a community college professor, and I taught myself how to use Canvas when the pandemic begin. More recently, I've been mentoring my colleagues.  One major problem is that some of the most useful f...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Add the ability to return the number of courses for a given TERM, either by default, or by passing an include value on the query string. Example: https://hostname.instructure.com/api/v1/accounts/1/ter...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When annotating on documents in SpeedGrader, the Text Annotation option allows you to type new notes anytime you click.  The Free Draw Annotation lets you add new drawings, but as soon as you let off ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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it will be more intuitive to change dashboard images from the dashboard area rather than going to module setting to make the change.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Gradebook eclipses at the top of the columns are not intuitive. They only show when your mouse rolls over the title (that is point A on Image attached). Should be showing all the time that grades are ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We have been having issues, whereby the course file storage gets full and no warning comes up. Staff automatically assume, it is bug, or the system is not working right. It will be beneficial to have ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Group submission go out of sync in speed-grader if you move students into different groups. Will be essential if canvas system can automatically link students moved in the group section to reflect on ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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With the grade posting policies currently in Canvas, the faculty member who has muted a column needs to remember to go back in and post the grades to this column so that students can see them. We woul...

Community Participant 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 Coach Canvas Ideas
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When an instructor links an assignment to specific students by adding their names to the "Assign To" box in an assignment's settings page, the student names added do not appear in alphabetical, or any...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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In gradebook, can we have an advanced search feature where I can filter the whole class based on the status/grade of multiple assignments? Then can we have the ability to message those students altoge...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When a student has no active courses, the dashboard has a message that reads: "Welcome to Canvas! You don’t have any courses, so this page won’t be very exciting for now. Once you’ve created or signed...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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In New Analytics reports, the class roster report contains a column for Student SIS ID but none of the other reports have this column. The Student ID field is present in all of the reports so I can us...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Please enable the export of a SINGLE assignment from Gradebook. I am really tired of exporting the entire Gradebook, then having to delete a million columns to end up with a CSV of the ONE assignment ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It is absolutely absurd to download all of my student responses as individual files rather than compiled to ONE .cvs file or pdf file. I will post this suggestion here (into this void) with the hope t...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Add to rules on Assignment Categories to not drop assignments until after there are x more than the rule... When setting up rules within assignments to drop x number of assignments there should be a s...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea is to give the test student view a drop down menu of current students in the banner that identifies the view as the test student.  When a specific student is selected from the drop down menu...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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For teachers who have multiple sections or can see other sections, the course summary in syllabus can start to be unwieldy since you see all assignments for all sections. It would be nice to have a fi...

Community Contributor 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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We use Studio to teach new concepts using video instruction with embed quiz questions into the video to gauge students' understanding of what they watched. Currently, students have to watch the entire...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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