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Our instructors would like to be able to edit appointments in the scheduler instead of having to delete and recreate them.  If a student has already signed up for an appointment and it has been modifi...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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This is a really helpful feature for language teachers, perhaps others. I've seen this suggested for multiple choice, but not for fill-ins.   I teach Spanish; we rely heavily on fill-in-the blanks. It...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I am a college professor, and I frequently give recurring assignments such as a weekly reflection paper wherein the students answer essentially the same questions each week about that week's materials...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We have more schools using the admin- and course-level groups feature to communicate with staff in the building and differentiate by type of staff, grade level teams, departments and others.  It would...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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As I am looking at the speedgrader assignments, one feature that would be great would be that instead of per assignment, moving from student to student, but by student, moving from assignment to assig...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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It is a very normal function of calendaring to be able to add events that span multiple days. Please add the ability to have mulit day events in canvas. Instead of just having a start and end time giv...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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The user "Page Views" information is not very useful as it is presently designed. Two small tweaks with the UI could vastly improve it's present functionality until a more comprehensive admin tool can...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Hi, When I import content from another course, I would like all assignments and other content to be unpublished by default. Currently, when I copy course content, I need to click through all of the co...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea is based on extending the Formula Question type to allow for multiple answers to be entered by students.   Currently, the Formula question type is fine for simple calculated answer questions...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Please change each the "Create and edit assessing rubrics" from a single setting to two separate settings.   Current: Create and edit assessing rubrics   Should become: Create assessing rubricsEdit a...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Please change each the "Moderate discussions ( delete / edit other's posts, lock topics)" from a single setting to three separate settings.   Current: Moderate discussions ( delete / edit other's pos...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Please change each the "Add, edit and delete events on the course calendar" from a single setting to three separate settings.   Current: Add, edit and delete events on the course calendar     Should ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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When you have an event that applies to multiple classes it would be Great to enter the event once and have it post to multiple course calendars. What I would like is a way to enter the same assignmen...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Currently in Canvas, when a module is locked until a specific date/time, students can see the module title and contents (although they cannot access them). Some faculty would like the option to hide t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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The Rich Content Editor (RCE) is available to use in *most* quiz question types, but not Matching questions. A lot of our instructors would like to use images, or bold/italicize text, or use other opt...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Rationale: It would be useful to be able to share a syllabus page similar to how sharing a content or wiki page works. This would allow departments to share syllabus templates to Canvas Commons for fa...

Instructure Alumni Canvas Ideas
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A good instructional design practice is to have a predictable module structure for students to follow throughout a course. Many courses use the calendar to clearly communicate deadlines to students, a...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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It would be useful that when you create a question [item] bank at the account level being able to upload a huge number of questions once by using a word document. Now, the only way to do this is to cr...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Right now both Global Announcements and Course Announcements become easily cluttered. It would be beneficial, especially where Global Announcements are concerned, if we had a way to archive or keep an...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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It would be very helpful if you could insert "Back" and "Next" buttons at the top of module item pages. This would eliminate the need to scroll down through long pages in order to move to the next mod...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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