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Once a course is concluded, I am limited in downloading student assignments as samples for reports. In a live course, I can export all submissions of an assignment by locating the assignment title and...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When the course setting "Let students attach files to discussion" is not selected, students can still attach files to the discussion through the Rich Text Editor. This seems counterintuitive. If we wa...

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At present, if a user is enrolled both as a student and as a teacher in a course site, they are unable to edit and grade New Quizzes.  This has caused significant difficulty and confusion at my instit...

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I often find that student wait until the due date to look at an assignment. And, I also notice that the students who "preview" an assignment a few days ahead of time tend to demonstrate more learning ...

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I know that HEIC is a proprietary file format so will never be supported because to render it requires a licence but what is the progress on supporting the WebP file format?

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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...

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We use student reports to check for participation, important for our accounting of student work at the beginning and throughout the semester.  Participation and not just viewing is required.  As an ad...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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We use the student Access Reports to check for participation, important for our accounting of student work at the beginning and throughout the semester.  Participation and not just viewing is required...

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In Blackboard, the node hierarchy (basically the sub-account structure for Bb Learn) allowed non-unique nodes (sub-accounts). This is because the node identifier was build by combining the parent and ...

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Since apps can be difficult (or impossible) to restore when deleted at the site level, it would be nice if there was a disable feature.  If this prevented new instances of the app being used while pre...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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If an Assignment is added to a module, then this module is displayed under this assignment on the Assignment Index Page The suggestion would be that there should be an option to turn off the display o...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would like to see a count of number of files added to the Course Storage Report. We would like to clean up courses that have 100s of unused flies (or thousands), so one field in this report we could...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Is there a reason to hide the personal action logs and analytical data from users? If there isn't then it would be useful for induction to present their usage data and log to users as it would make th...

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I have built assignment with a deadline and no late submissions. Students miss the deadline anyway. Quizzes automatically submit on the deadline. Can an option be added to automatically submit on the ...

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Please can you put tabs for saving, publishing, etc at both the top and bottom of the page? the current format is not at all user friendly.

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A feature that allows us to  copy an announcement in one section and paste it to another, and change the date for the new section instead of creating a new announcement each time.

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Parent Observers should not be able to see the student's assignment other than the grade and/or feedback from the instructor. Giving observers access to the work student's have turned in feels like a ...

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The K-12 district I work in, and many of the districts around me, have made the move to using our LMS as the place to house our day-to-day grades. With that transition, we have noticed a number of gra...

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Please update Link Validator to be a more useful tool. I am suggesting that the Canvas Link Validator be upgraded to be a more useful Tool.   Perhaps using AI logic to "Automatically" fix a broken lin...

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When a faculty member needs support on a student issue that they were notified about through the Canvas inbox, there is no way for them to respond to the student and copy in my support email without t...

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