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In our Canvas Community we use New Analytics to measure engagement with the resources we offer. Students in the college are automatically added to the community and are allowed to stay in even after g...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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On the Canvas Dashboard when in card view users see the course title, term, and then icons for what is in the course (assignments, discussions, etc.). Idea Suggestion: Add in the ability to change th...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The Student Outcomes Report is incredibly useful for our school, that uses standards-based grading! We could use this as our primarily tool for trend analysis if it were a little more accessible and u...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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We have accumulated a fairly good amount of terms as we create the terms via SIS.  When going into sub-accounts, we are forced to constantly choose a semester from a lengthy list (and it is only getti...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Role: Instructor The outcomes analysis function currently sorts students in alphabetical order by first name. It would be easier for users if it sorted by last name so that schools with incompatible g...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Sent and received emails often have common themes and so for improved efficiency and productivity these emails should be organized into email folders with self-documenting titles.  Currently the Canva...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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The course summary in the Syllabus page displays dated assignments in chronological order at the top, followed by undated assignments in alphabetical order. This can be very confusing and hard to navi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Currently, the Catalog Listings page is very difficult to manage and navigate.  There is already a feature request to be able to sort by Visibility which is definitely needed, but this is a related pl...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I love the formula questions, but when the default number of answers is 200 that makes the page very long to scroll down if I want to change something at the bottom like points or to add it to a quest...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In the Learning Mastery Gradebook, there are a list of outcomes from left to right that are in order based on the upload file or import order. The columns of objectives can be dragged and dropped but ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The current intended behavior of Canvas is to show undated assignments as existing in the final grading period of the year. This was a surprise to many K-12 teachers when their Q4 grading period start...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Would it be possible to change the Gradebook Statuses "pop-up" window into a flyout menu, so that the Gradebook can be seen side-by-side with the Statuses? Something like this?  

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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List view in the dashboard shows to-do items by date. But within each day, the items are not listed in order of time.  Instead, they are listed in the order that the courses appear in the courses tray...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Our root account has 82 Courses 25 Sub-Accounts.When I look at the course list at the root level there are 3910 pages of results, 58,650 coursesI can not find the 82 courses at the root level in this ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I want to see the most recent at the top of the email notification,

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In the New Gradebook, I can type EX to automatically get the Excused status applied to a student's grade for an assignment. I would love to see that functionality extended to the Missing and Late stat...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When an instructor links an assignment to specific students by adding their names to the "Assign To" box in an assignment's settings page, the student names added do not appear in alphabetical, or any...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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For teachers who have multiple sections or can see other sections, the course summary in syllabus can start to be unwieldy since you see all assignments for all sections. It would be nice to have a fi...

Community Contributor 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 Champion 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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