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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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In "Edit Assignment", please sort the different due dates. In a self-pacing class, I’ve created many assignments that are meant to be drafts toward a bigger project, and will frequently bounce the ass...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice if Canvas had an option to return to the top of the module that you are working on. When you click the modules button, it takes you back to the very top of all of the modules.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I was under the impression that students could see how many attempts they had for all assignments- but apparently they do not! For example, when I assign a Google Cloud Assignment (notes) I allow unli...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to be able to allocate permission to other roles to be able to help reset login credentials. Sometimes it is not best practise to give a member Admin role just to be able to help with...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Since the changes to the gradebook last year, it would be really beneficial to have an additional option when setting up assignment regarding overriding the grade posting policy.  Can we please have a...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Our K-12 institution was recently exploring the option to enable Canvas Chat in our instance and would love to be able to set Chat to "Allow" in the account level admin panel so that teachers can togg...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Our K-12 institution was recently exploring the option to enable Canvas Chat in our instance and would love for the ability to turn this feature on for select sub-accounts within our instance and not ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We have shown our teachers how to make recent #Announcements appear on the Homepage, but it does not work for students in the Student App.  Our elementary and middle school students all are on iPads (...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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The current default filename for downloading all submissions of a course is "submissions.zip". Instead, it should be a filename that reflects the course and assignment title. Currently, I downloaded s...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Presently, replacing a thumbnail image for a Studio video requires uploading an image file from the local computer. In nearly every conceivable case, the desired image will be a frame from the video i...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We love the functionality that allows teachers to message students directly from Speedgrader.  We would like to request an option for a student to message a teacher from an assignment or quiz without ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We would like you to consider adding increased filtering to the student side of the gradebook so that you can filter by missing, late, excused, etc.  As the year proceeds further and the gradebook lis...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We would like for the calendar events to have the ability to provide pop-up reminders on the device being used when an event is about to begin or when an assignment is due.  As more students are movin...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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There is some valuable information about course statistics available via the UI including the running totals which show the total number of active students and number of unaccepted students.  https://...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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