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Hello everyone!   I have been working with faculty to create mobile friendly content pages.  While most often pages will look okay on mobile devices, I often have to explain why some content such as t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We would like the ability to be able to bulk upload and add multiple "group members" into groups by user ID or university email within Canvas Commons.   Currently, administrators can create groups for...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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The wonderful New Course Search in Canvas Production Release 2018-03-10 unfortunately removes the option to sort listings of courses based on course creation date.  Admins regularly need to work with ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Hi everyone,   It has come to our attention that even though a student has a university user ID they might not have identified a default email address in their Canvas profile. If a student does not ha...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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The new course/people search is pretty nice, however, it still does not show you if a course/section have been combined. It would be nice if there was some indicator of this.   When you combine/crossl...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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The Problem: If students submit to a group assignment that does not have an associated group set, those submissions appear as individual submission rather than group submissions. Because this causes n...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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We have heard a few requests from instructors to get an export or printing function built into the Speedgrader that will allow them to print their annotated comments, similar to how track changes can ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Many times, we write quizzes that get progressively more difficult. I would love a feature where students can get grades as they go on a quiz. In other words, they can submit their answer for question...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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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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We would like the ability to enable and disable Conversations/Messages and its features, like "Reply All", at a Course Level.   While these features can be edited at a role level, each course may have...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I would like to see a more global option to enable/disable the display of MISSING/LATE assignment labels to our students in their Gradebook. While I appreciate the effort to address our initial concer...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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in the new gradebook it would be great if there were separate policies for each assignment or even for each assignment group.  We have different policies for our participation than for typical assignm...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Finding a specific message in the Canvas Inbox is a difficult task due to the lack of a search feature. This is compounded for instructors of large courses, who may have thousands of students over the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I would like to suggest that when admin reports, like unpublished and unused courses, are run that there is some indication of 1) whether the course is cross-listed, and 2) which course it is cross-li...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In Canvas Catalog:   We would like the ability to duplicate catalogs for the purpose of:   1. We have the need to associate a subcatalog with a parent catalog. Currently, the only option is to create ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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It would be great if canvas would allow a rubric to be exported to a word doc, csv format or pdf so that rubrics can be used in class instruction or provided to students with assignment description an...

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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If you are enrolled in a Catalog course and you remove your enrollment via Canvas that information isn't passed to Catalog and so it will look like you 1) never were enrolled, or 2) look like you're s...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Previously under the title "Link to External URL"   When linking to an external url that Canvas will not (or cannot) embed, link should automatically open in a new tab or window.  Currently, Canvas op...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Very simply, when you highlight a phrase in the content editor, and link it to a file type that is supported by "scribd," (e.g., "Word" or "PDF"), it should display a preview icon that the student can...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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