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There is an issue with the Search bar in Canvas which is case / character sensitive (and it should not). It's particularly important for languages that use various accents. For example, if I search fo...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When moving the Override column around in the gradebook, it sticks until the instructor uses the Reorder filter to reorder the columns; when that happens, the position of the Override column reverts b...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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At the end of the semester I have to submit to my college administration a copy of all the grades in the Canvas Gradebook for every course that I teach. Below is an excerpt of a Canvas Gradebook for a...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I'm trying to use the "copy to" feature to copy a page into another course. The page has links to assignments and quizzes. However, when I do the "copy to", it doesn't bring over the assignments or qu...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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The current columns in the student outcomes report are "attempts" "latest score" and "percentage". These columns do not give us a sense of the students' mastery in the outcome, which is an important p...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Some of our faculty wish to block access to their Canvas sites during the administration of exams. Currently our solution is to have them manually adjust the start/end dates of the course and block st...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I would like the scheduler to sync with my outlook calendar to prevent students from double booking appointments with my advisees using EAB Navigate to schedule appointments.  EAB Navigate currently s...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I use the canvas scheduler to arrange 1-1 student appointments. I would like to request the addition of a scheduling condition which can be set according to instructor preferences e.g. students cannot...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When posting a discussion, rather than the only "reply" button, it would be great to have some other options with an "agree" and "disagree" buttons so that people can express their opinions, argue, de...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We use New Analytics to measure user engagement with resources in our community.  We use the announcements and calendar features to share events and new information.  When we run course reports, annou...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Our Canvas Community is where we share Career Resources for Business Students. Students are added in the Student role, but we also add faculty and staff as Observers so they can see and use our resour...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In our Canvas Community we use New Analytics to measure engagement with the resources we offer. Students in the college are automatically added to the community and are allowed to stay in even after g...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We currently use the API to create timetable events for sections. We would like to add an HTML link to a zoom url in the description field, however, currently only title and location are available thr...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Allow bulk delete of SCORM packages loaded to a course. Currently have to go into SCORM and click the delete icon next to each package (file) to delete. This is very time consuming if many files need ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We would like to be able to turn off ePortfolios at Root level but be able to select it at sub-account or course level.  We have been spammed by a number of people gaining access to the e-portfolio wh...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In the New Quizzes "Moderate" tab, it seems we can search and filter for students by their name but not by other identifiers such as the SIS ID or Canvas ID. The "SIS ID" is a key identifier for stude...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Please give the option of which column the "Total" score in the Gradebook shows, or the option of displaying more than one "Total".  The "Total" that displays in the Gradebook is the "Current grade/sc...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hello! We have detected that from the list to be made on the board you cannot delete all items at once, you have to delete them one by one.This happens on the dashboard from the computer, from the app...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be very handy to be able to create page templates and copy them to groups (ideally to group sets to make the process faster) so that the students can then use those pages as structuring / pla...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Came across this oddity today. I'm participating in a course for teaching online, and I went to do one of the assignments. It's due today, but the due date just says: "Due Sunday by 11:59pm". Which Su...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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