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We add users to courses using the People/+People button inside of our courses.For users who are brand new to Canvas - this sends them an email inviting them to register for a Canvas account. The user ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When pulling up a User's profile from the Admin view, it's a pain to figure out which courses they're enrolled in this term, because the list is only sorted alphabetically, not by Term or by which cou...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hi Canvas community,   I'd like to share an idea that would really benefit us and the way we use Canvas. We use and abuse sub-accounts as we work with different university partners. You'll see in the ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We had a request to have the calendar items on the Canvas course calendar to be sorted Alphabetically as an alternative way to sort and view items (quizzes, assignments, et). 

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Recently, Instructure released Collections (similar to folders) in Canvas Studio.  (How do I create a collection in Canvas Studio?)  The default view is sorted by "Date Added" and "View All".  It woul...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We have students taking upwards of 12-13 courses in a trimester. That can be a considerable amount of assignments, quizzes and discussions. It's my understanding that the To Do list only shows 7 items...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This image shows the exact layout of an assignment when using Google Doc Cloud assignments when you are trying to embed or add other needed information in a page. As you can see it gets very cut off ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Table/Image Advanced Properties  The Table, cell and rowadvanced properties option is a limiting design. There is a  dropdown list, without the ability to customize the html, which was available in th...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When using Canvas in a mobile/tablet browser (something quite convenient, remember that not everybody has a laptop and not everybody likes Canvas app), when you have finished week 1 module and press t...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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As faculty teach more courses over the years, their All-Courses tab in Global Navigation gets filled with courses from previous semesters. As an admin, I find this very difficult to navigate, especial...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Teachers would like to be able to view the submission date and time timestamp for each quiz and assignment in one location without having to scroll through and look at each student's submission in the...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I would like to see some improvements to the "Announcements" tab. Specifically, it would be nice to be able to:     view all announcements on one page with an option to expand all announcements   Use ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In Speedgrader: an option to view the number of completed graded assignments (similar to what is provided in the grade book)   Numerator: number of assignments gradeddenominator: number of assignments...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It looks like this was suggested in 2017 but not done....In the grade book, it would be great to add  "Needs Grading" to the dropdown menu options, so we can quickly navigate to the students who have ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Teachers need a toggle to hide rubrics till the teacher release it, a date, or when all students have submitted. I want to be to make an assignment where students complete it one day, and then the nex...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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New analytics should have editable date ranges. This allows for more useful data.

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We would like the ability to sort by visibility in Canvas Catalog listings. The purpose of this is to be able to find out which listing is set to which visibility instead of having a mix of the three ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Hi everyone,   We would like to be able to filter by catalog to view listings. Currently, as an admin in Canvas Catalog I see all of the listings and I have to change the url to dwindle down and see a...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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In the old Gradebook, you are able to hover over the total grade column and see [number of points earned] / [number of points possible].   In the New Gradebook, you can view the total grades by points...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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The wonderful New Course Search in Canvas Production Release 2018-03-10 unfortunately removes the option to sort listings of courses based on course creation date.  Admins regularly need to work with ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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