Canvas Ideas

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I always find it useful to search for content using an index or an actual search tool rather than just scrolling through all of the pages one by one to find what I need.  I can see many uses for this:...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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It would be great if the breadcrumb trail would follow your navigation correctly when you are working in modules rather than switching to "page", "discussions", "assignments" or whatever you click on....

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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 Add the Rich Text Editor to the Comments section of Speedgrader.   "I want to recommend books, etc., or to properly format foreign words, and so on, and want to set the example, of course, of doing s...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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When importing course content, it would be great to see the detailed list of:   What items were imported if the user used the option "Select Migration Content"Who Initiated the importWhether it was th...

Instructure Canvas Ideas
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Originally submitted by Sara Wolf   Currently, instructors can choose to allow a variety of formats for assignment submission. However, when the student submits, only one type can be used, unless the ...

Instructure Alumni Canvas Ideas
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I love that Canvas can bring over announcements when I copy content from another Canvas course. This keeps me from copying and pasting announcements I make every semester.  To further develop this fea...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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  As an account or subaccount admin, I want to set default notification settings for my users by role. Like role-based permissions, these notification settings could be locked or unlocked; that is, I ...

Instructure Alumni Canvas Ideas
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As an instructor, I want a print button on the People tab that will generate a PDF or other printable document containing student names and photos in grid format. It'd be nice if the list could be sor...

Instructure Alumni Canvas Ideas
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As a user, I would like to be able to use the rich-content editor to compose messages in the Conversations inbox. This would enable me to create Conversations that are on par, formatting- and content-...

Instructure Alumni Canvas Ideas
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