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This idea applies to the browser interface of Canvas If a section filter is applied in the markbook this filter is also applied to the speed grader. This has caused confusion for many of my teachers, ...

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Currently, Canvas Grade Periods must be set at the Account Admin level. However, this doesn’t work in a K-12 environment.  We have schools that enroll students in courses that run by year, semester, o...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be helpful if an instructor could update a Studio quiz correct answer choice after students have taken the quiz. If an instructor accidentally selects a different correct answer than intended...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When a student submits a paper that is connected to Portfolium they cannot grade it in speed grader, which is quite a pain because then the professor has to create two assignments so they can mark the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Could you please create an option for all late work to simply revert to an "Ungraded" Status instead of get a particular score? This would make a lot more sense to both my students and me! Thank-you!

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When adding Module completion requirements for a quiz, the options are confusing. Why does it say "submit the assignment" if we are creating a requirement for a quiz?Or is there some reason the code i...

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As part of my grading process I will often leave students feedback in Canvas and expect them to use that feedback to improve and resubmit their work. Previously, I used to be able to easily see my ent...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When a new conference is created in a course students are sent a content update notification. The link in the notification goes to the conferences url in the course. At this point students are redirec...

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When an Assignment is created, it would be beneficial to be able to have a drop-down menu to select a Module to place the assignment in. This could work as the assignment category.  After creating an ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We use Canvas to operate an entirely virtual high school with 100+ courses. While each course is unique, some assignment categories are consistent across all courses. For example, each course has a fi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Please consider a feature that allows teachers (or canvas admins) the ability to select a default too for use in speedgrader for iOS. For example, if a teacher collects assignments of the type "file u...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I would like to suggest a way to export TA & instructor information from the People screen in a course.  There are I times I need to enroll the same TA's and /or instructors in another course and it w...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I am a photo teacher. Each assignment has 5-7 files. I want to be able to download one section at a time and when I unzip the folder I want each student to have a folder with their name and inside the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Instead of having to check the box "Allow use in Mastery Paths" for each individual page you want to include in a Mastery Path, it would be nice if Pages were automatically an option for what you can ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In Canvas, currently, there is not a way to manage an item bank from the Admin. level. This creates a problem when trying to edit questions that were pulled from the item bank, especially in blueprint...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Right now any user in an admin account role can adjust the scores in New Quizzes for any teacher at a school site.  We use Grade Guardian which allows account admins to access specific dashboards of s...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Teachers should be able to add time to a timed quiz after the time is up. In a face to face class, if a student has been working diligently on a quiz or test and they ask to have additional time, I gi...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Allow setup of least passing grade for each grading standard. Just as a range of percentages are tied to a certain grade, a grade/range of grades should be tied a boolean status - pass or fail. Exampl...

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As a teacher, I'd like the ability to change the question type after I have already created the question (like I was able to do with the Classic Quizzes).  For example, after I've created a multiple c...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to have at the Admin level that when a student has an IEP for let us say 1.5x or 2x on their exams or assignments that we can go in and put that info in at a student level that automa...

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