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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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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, ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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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