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Problem statement: Courses only have their own individual file content storage option. There is no central (organizational) content repository for files and assets to be used inside courses. Many solu...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We are migrating from Blackboard to Canvas. In the migration process, we are migrating literally hundreds of files from old courses that are many years' old. ,Most of these files ar...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, when a user uploads an image, document, or some other kind of file using the rich content editor that file is linked directly to the user storage of that individual. If t...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Some student submissions on Canvas have low contrast and are hard to read. Proposed solution: Include filters or contrast settings in SpeedGrader for increasing the contrast of sub...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In late 2020, Instructure changed the default and icons for files located in a course and on a page. Previously a magnifying glass accompanied a linked file on a page and defaulted ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Someone posted this idea previously (Available From Date for Files), but it was archived, I assume because the title and description were not sufficiently detailed. When you set a file's availability,...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When finding files in the "Files" environment, the ability to search for a file then "Go to Folder"; this would make file management much easier

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Please enable the export of a SINGLE assignment from Gradebook. I am really tired of exporting the entire Gradebook, then having to delete a million columns to end up with a CSV of the ONE assignment ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It is absolutely absurd to download all of my student responses as individual files rather than compiled to ONE .cvs file or pdf file. I will post this suggestion here (into this void) with the hope t...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The current default filename for downloading all submissions of a course is "submissions.zip". Instead, it should be a filename that reflects the course and assignment title. Currently, I downloaded s...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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You cannot currently, from the SCORM page on a course, download the ZIP file you originally uploaded. Every other 'upload / import' from a file place (e.g. Content imports), you can. It would be reall...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Files such as syllabi will be different for different sections. Why isn't there a way to make these visible to some sections but not others, aside from putting them into an illogical category like "as...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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