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I am a college professor, and I frequently give recurring assignments such as a weekly reflection paper wherein the students answer essentially the same questions each week about that week's materials...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We have more schools using the admin- and course-level groups feature to communicate with staff in the building and differentiate by type of staff, grade level teams, departments and others.  It would...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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As I am looking at the speedgrader assignments, one feature that would be great would be that instead of per assignment, moving from student to student, but by student, moving from assignment to assig...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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The user "Page Views" information is not very useful as it is presently designed. Two small tweaks with the UI could vastly improve it's present functionality until a more comprehensive admin tool can...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Hi, When I import content from another course, I would like all assignments and other content to be unpublished by default. Currently, when I copy course content, I need to click through all of the co...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Please change each the "Create and edit assessing rubrics" from a single setting to two separate settings.   Current: Create and edit assessing rubrics   Should become: Create assessing rubricsEdit a...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Please change each the "Moderate discussions ( delete / edit other's posts, lock topics)" from a single setting to three separate settings.   Current: Moderate discussions ( delete / edit other's pos...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Please change each the "Add, edit and delete events on the course calendar" from a single setting to three separate settings.   Current: Add, edit and delete events on the course calendar     Should ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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When you have an event that applies to multiple classes it would be Great to enter the event once and have it post to multiple course calendars. What I would like is a way to enter the same assignmen...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Currently in Canvas, when a module is locked until a specific date/time, students can see the module title and contents (although they cannot access them). Some faculty would like the option to hide t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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The Rich Content Editor (RCE) is available to use in *most* quiz question types, but not Matching questions. A lot of our instructors would like to use images, or bold/italicize text, or use other opt...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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A good instructional design practice is to have a predictable module structure for students to follow throughout a course. Many courses use the calendar to clearly communicate deadlines to students, a...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Right now both Global Announcements and Course Announcements become easily cluttered. It would be beneficial, especially where Global Announcements are concerned, if we had a way to archive or keep an...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Part of participating in online coursework involves working with other students to improve drafts and engage in the learning community. When students are assigned peer reviews, let's be honest, they a...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Currently, once a course reaches its end date for instructor access, instructors no longer have access to the grading history in the course.  According to support, this is intended behavior because th...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Users should be able to mark a question to be used for extra credit in a quiz in Canvas.  This question should only provide credit to the student if it is correct.  It should NOT take away from the st...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We heavily use the question bank folders to keep our questions organized.  We create them in the banks since it is the only way to keep them from going into an "unfiled" folder. The regrade feature ne...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I'd like to see the rubrics within Canvas support percentages rather than fixed points. Like many instructors, I'm constantly tinkering my point distribution to ensure both a challenging environment a...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Group settings should be included when doing a course copy or Import.   I have a course which relies heavily on an intricate set of groups tied to assignments (it's a negotiations course) so I need to...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Our teachers and student support managers, who keep track of a student's progress across all courses, have an overwhelming need to view all students grades even though they are not one of their teache...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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