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Create a second option for saving at the top of the screen for Pages.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I make my Modules the home page for my students, and I like for them to see the most recent information first.  As it is now, the default is for new modules and content to post to the bottom of the fe...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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To reduce the number of clicks to post grades for assignments utilizing a manual posting policy, make the eye icon above the assignment in the gradebook clickable.   This would streamline the current ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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As we look forward to New Gradbook, I have a teacher asking for a feature.  She's asking for:   "...a little symbol, like a notch in the corner, to show that the teacher has made a comment on the grad...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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When building rubrics on a course level, it would be helpful to have a duplicate rubric button next to the Edit and Delete options. Some rubrics are very similar and having the ability to duplicate wh...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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In the student interface, currently it is not possible to select multiple or all announcements to make them marked as read. As a result, often times a student's announcement thread will fill up to the...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I know there are several good ideas about improving the HTML editor including making it easier to read the HTML. I think one thing that would be beneficial is to have my cursor remain on the same spot...

Community Champion 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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When using the Speedgrader, an instructor may need to revise the student’s score from the rubric to account for late submissions or other penalties or credits to the score not indicated in the rubric....

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In my testing, the highlight tool in DocViewer doesn't automatically open the annotation. When you highlight a section of text, it shows an icon that you then need to click on in order to add a commen...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently, when new files are added to a course, a notification is sent to students with a link stating "You can view them here." However, this link simply directs them to the root folder of the Files...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I have found the "message students who..." function in gradebook very effective to nudging students to complete assignments. I suggest an option that, when you create the assignment, you can automatic...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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It would be awesome if instructors could add images to modules - specifically to add an image in the very first module in their list of modules. This way an instructor could create a Title Page to the...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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When enrolling students to a course section, there is a small box for you to check to restrict the student to seeing only his/her own section and responses from other students only from his/her sectio...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  Students need a way to pin (or perhaps bookmark) where they are leaving off in a module so they can quickly return to that location on subsequent login.   This previously posted idea Bookmark is int...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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A stop or cancel button on imports could be a lifesaver for all Canvas users. I see it being helpful in scenarios such as:   You start to import the wrong content You accidentally selected "All conten...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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With courses that have many modules and module items, the default un-collapsed state on the modules page makes the view overwhelming. I would love the option to choose a 'current' module and have that...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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