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In the Gradebook you are allowed to manually enter letter grades if the assignment's "Display Grade As" is set to "Letter Grade". Unfortunately, if done this way the .csv file exported will not includ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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With the assessment late policy feature, Gradebook 2.0 removes the burden which our lecturers have to deduct the mark for late submission manually. The late submissions are identified automatically...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi, I just had a professor call me. He mutes his exams while grading them, because he adjusts up and down based on how many missed a question. He switched over to Quizzes.Next, and we found that it do...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through the Canvas Deploy Notes (2025-02-26)  A feature in Hot Spo...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Create automatic link to assignment you are referring to in "message students who".... It would be great if a link to the assignment you are referring to is part of the "message students who" featur...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Comments from Instructure The  Canvas Release Notes (2022-01-15) includes partial credit options for matching questions in New Quizzes. Please refer to  New Quizzes: Partial Credit for Matching Questi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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USE CASE: I do a lot of small “group” exercises in the classroom.  I need the ability to grade the submissions as a group (which is there), but I also need the ability to provide individual grades (to...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Currently if instructors create a group assignment, and a group set, they can enable self sign-up within that group set. This is desirable as often they want students to self-organise into groups of c...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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This idea suggests additional improvements to Canvas rubrics so they conform with conventional rubric design. Although the updated rubric features were improved from the original Canvas release, some ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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We would really like to see the Syllabus page have page history so that instructors who spend hours on it, and then delete it accidentally, can get it back.  Other pages/modules have this feature, but...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Similar to how Facebook notifies you when someone replies to your specific post, I would like this feature in Canvas.In nearly all of my classes, we are required to make postings and answer student re...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Currently on the announcement page of a course if an instructor wants to bulk delete announcements they must check the box next to each announcement before they can click delete button. Additionally, ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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People>Groups not available in the phone app. I really could use this feature. Canvas web pages, I find, don't optimize well on mobile browsers, at least not on Droid phones.  On the phone app, there'...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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As a Catalog Admin, it would be beneficial to receive a notification when a student drops a course in Catalog since we have no control over this option.  It would also be beneficial for the Catalog us...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Summary The File Object currently contains a number of attributes for each file in a Canvas Course such as "display_name", "size" and "content-type". This idea is to add attributes to the file object ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Non-scoring rubrics were introduced to Canvas on July 14, 2018.  When a non-scoring rubric is used in the SpeedGrader for grading (assuming there are only three values to choose from...such as Full Ma...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We have recently discovered that all of the information in  Canvas UI -> Admin -> Admin Tools -> Logging in Canvas data is only retained for one calendar year.This information is imperitive to our in...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Please include all data from Quizzes.Next into Canvas data just like the "legacy" Quiz tool.  Having this information is very important to our institution and the fact that this wasn't a part of the g...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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We would like administrators to be able to be notified when new promotions for Canvas Catalog are created.    To make this happen a notifications tab will be needed in the admin portal and a pop-up me...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to be able to format the content in the "Rating Description" box. For example, a lot of my school's rubrics are holistic, requiring us to break down each level into multiple facets. B...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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