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Problem statement: An instructor at our university pointed out that it's quite confusing that is says "Send comment to this student only" and "Send comment to the whole group" when submitting comments...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: This should be a simple one. When assigning a due date to a New Quiz, Canvas ALWAYS takes you back to your Quizzes page. For literally every other assignment, you can set a due date...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The current location of the Module unlock dates (bottom right of module) is not intuitive. It can be difficult to identify if it is referring to the module above or below the date. ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a student clicks an assignment link in their grade book it takes them to the submission details page. This page has a submit button if there is a native submission type. If the...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a new quiz is added to modules as a module item, the next and previous buttons display on the start page. After the student starts the quiz, however, the buttons are no longer ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the combination of the assignment creation page remembering the previous settings for peer review, with the fact that the peer review option and tickbox is hidden when th...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The pen tool in the Speedgrader is in general very helpful when marking large numbers of scripts. However, it is currently very sluggish. One needs to tick the "ok" very often or do...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: when a student accesses a locked page that has pre-requisite , the 'pre requisite' text shows no indication it is clickable. So they can't see list of missing items they need to com...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Often times faculty want to set a repeating announcement but there is currently no way to schedule that out. Proposed solution: provide a way for announcements to repeat or be sche...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When new 'pop' up windows are displayed the 'X' for close is the default action when you press enter, thereby closing the page instead of adding the desired record or action. Exampl...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Instructors can add emojis to comments as they grade Assignments. However, the emoji image that they click on to add emojis gets in the way and can cover up the text that they are ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: With the new design to disable file previews and force a download (Canvas Deploy Notes (2022-08-17) - Instructure Community), it seems that the download icon has also been removed. ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: As I continue to develop my courses, I'm using question banks more and more. There are lots of issues with the functionality of these, but I'll focus on one here: the feedback box, ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Grading assignments with a rubric in SpeedGrader requires many clicks, which is slow and can cause repetitive stress injury. Submissions usually get the maximum score in most or all...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Teacher have over 150 students loaded to a canvas course. Clicking "everyone" easily assigns to the entire course. Assigning the same assignment with modifications to a smaller grou...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: If a student accidently create a Student Group, then the Student Groups group set tab remains visible to the teacher. The teacher can remove the groups, but not the group set. Prop...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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If an instructor accidentally clicks the "Reassign Assignment" button in SpeedGrader, there is not a way to undo the action. Please provide an option to undo the action. Here is the link to the "Reass...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When you have Synced assignment groups to the SIS, an "Imported" icon (which looks like an arrow on a page) appears next to the Assignment Group name.   This helps Teachers and System Admins quickly i...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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We absolutely require a keyboard shortcut to submit a comment in SpeedGrader. I technically submitted this idea a few years ago, to have a simple keyboard shortcut (e.g. Ctrl-Enter, similar to most em...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In the Canvas app for smartphones it shows you a To-Do List that lists items that you haven't yet completed that are due within the next week or so. This is a useful reminder. What would also be usefu...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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