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@people list is alphabetical by last names, which is not helpful. Please add sorting function by "First Name", "Section", "last Activity" and "Total Activity". All other tabular lists should be sort-a...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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As a course design assistant, my dashboard gets entirely too overloaded and the need to scroll to find the course I need to access can go on for a while due to the size of the cards. I would love to b...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hello, I've noticed my students scrolling down long pages of modules to get to the latest assignment, and I've had to do this myself. It gets old. So I wanted to order the modules in reverse order wit...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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on the assignment page next to the group title there is a gear icon representing settings.  on that drag down menu bar it would be wonderful to have an option to sort assignments chronologically.    t...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Student enrollments which have been set to the "inactive" status currently show up on the People page tagged with the "inactive" label. We are now using the inactive status for students who have enrol...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When a teacher wants to add a rubric to an assignment, they currently have to search through all of their courses to find the right one. This may require them to scroll down a long list before they fi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Issue: Right now when an instructor views the all courses list there is very few organizational option making it difficult for them to find the course that they need.   Current workaround: Brute force...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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So, my impression is that terms are sorted based on date and, perhaps, name. But it doesn't seem consistent. For example, here's the term order on the admin Terms page, which appears to be in descendi...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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