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 Teachers need to be able to enable and disable lockdown browser for quizzes while in quiz edit mode instead of having to go to another page.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I recently tried to send a message to my students through Canvas' messaging system. The message would not send and I got a notice saying 'invalid recipients'. I spent an hour on the phone trying to re...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I am a Canvas Admin in a K-12 Environment. Although we have used Canvas for about 6 years, this is the first school year we are seeing very heavy use of the platform in all subject areas. One issue th...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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It would be very helpful for parents and other users - such as guidance - to be able to view student analytics. There does not seem to be a setting to grant this without also giving them access to oth...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Currently, table properties allow for Cell Padding and Cell Spacing. Cell spacing will not be visible when the border-collapse property is set to collapse, but will be present when set to separate. I ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When a user is enrolled in a course and their enrollment is limited to a section they should not have the option to add a discussion for 'All sections'. Instead they should be presented with a default...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When a rubric is edited at the sub-account or course level the criteria and rating descriptions update for feedback already delivered to students. This creates a situation where we don't have proper v...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently while in student view if you have prerequisites for a module you have to remove these in order to see an assignment or a module as a student. It would be nice to be able to view all assignme...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When testing the requirements of a course in student view, the instructor must meet all module requirements.  Therefore, the student view should allow the instructor to test those module requirements ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Hi, We would like the ability to correct the enrollment and completion date of students enrollments in Canvas Catalog. Currently, the Catalog API, does not have POST API for us to change the enrollmen...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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In classic quizzes, the multiple answer question type allows instructors to preload student feedback for every answer choice, just like with ordinary multiple choice questions. That feature has been e...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I know there is a feature request out there to allow HTML in assignment comments, which would solve this idea. But, in case HTML in comments is not possible/feasible, I'm offering this as a separate r...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When going back and grading late work, I always have to go back and forth from individual assignments to the main grade book, but with 100s of students and a lot of assignments, having to rescroll to ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be an amazingly handy feature if I could send out bulk progress reports to Observers.  So, it would send each observer a progress report of their student.  Going through and doing this indivi...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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As a way to assist teachers, students, and families/caregivers with keeping up with assignments, an extremely helpful feature would be an automated homework trend email message. What this would be is ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Right now, the only checkmark grades you can do on assignments and quizzes are for complete/incomplete grades, but a lot of teachers (in my school especially) would like to be able to have the grade t...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When an error occurs in New Quizzes that interferes with a student's most recent attempt, one solution is for faculty to apply the previous score.  However, that is only possible through the addition ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Draft comments in Speedgrader require teachers to manually click “submit” before moving on to the next student submission. This can be helpful to keep a draft when you want to come back to it later, b...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When an assignment is configured to Display Grade as Points, Speedgrader will not accept non-numeric values in the grade field. If a letter grade or other invalid input is entered, the grade field sim...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We would like to request that observers have the ability to message campus administrators and include campus administrators with their Canvas Inbox.  Currently observers can only message teachers in t...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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