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The "reopen" a current attempt option in moderate restarts students with the time they have remaining at the time when I click the button.  However, with remote teaching, coordinating that the quiz ne...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I would like to suggest that each discussion board created have it's own attachment setting instead of it being all or nothing.  I have some instructors that don't want that feature available in all d...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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SinceCanvas Deploy Notes (2020-09-23) , the New RCE Links button creates an external link as its default action. It would be better for the default action to open the Course Links tab. External links ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Please include the ability for teachers to select "View Feedback Once After Each Attempt" in New Quizzes! If we lose this feature with New Quizzes, I don't know what we are going to do! I'm adding thi...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Please offer the option to restrict students' answer selection to X number of choice selections and offer partial points for correct answers ONLY without deducting points for incorrect answers. The pe...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Feature request:  automatically highlight grades that are above maximum with some bright color to alert the teacher that they may have made a data entry error.  The text notification at the top of the...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Certain settings for new quizzes are controlled from the assignment settings screen.  This includes the due date and availability dates, and point value of the overall quiz.  It is understandably diff...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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When I write a quiz full of essay questions, canvas cannot autograde it.  That is expected.  However, when it autogrades as a zero the students panic.  The work around to set the quiz to a manual grad...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Currently the rich content editor strips the srcset and sizes attribute from the img tag. These features have established cross browser support and make it easier to include responsive images.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Teachers need to be able to see what they've shared with each other. Not in Commons, but just sent to each other. We can see what has been shared with us, but not what we've shared (sent) to each othe...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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If a student misses a deadline for an assignment, the assignment's status is automatically marked as missing. There should also be an email message or notification that is sent to the student to notif...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In order to see assignments with a Missing status, students must click on Grades. Instead, the list of missing assignments should be on their front page. The idea is to have a separate "Missing" assig...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Currently mastery paths only has 3 break out options, meaning you can only set up 3 paths.  I would like to see mastery paths allow for more break out options.

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently Mastery Paths only allows you to open assignments or pages.  But here is how I use them: Student takes a quiz.  Student passes quiz and gets a congratulations page Student almost passes quiz...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Canvas has a feature which gives a warning when the student is running out of time (60 minutes left, 5 minutes left, 1 minute left). However, this warning is a small pop-up that is open for five secon...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Headers can be used to subdivide the activities in modules, but each header makes the module longer and longer.  To reduce scrolling for students, I suggest allowing the headers to be expanded and col...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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This idea is to add internal prerequisites within modules based on completion of all the activities under headers used to subdivide the module. In some cases sequential completion of individual activi...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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There needs to be a way to copy assignments to multiple courses instead of one at a time. It is time-consuming for teachers. Going to Commons is time-consuming as well. We should be able to create an ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When I use the Rich Text Editor to alter text on Assignments, Pages, Discussions, Announcements, and old Quizzes, I frequently use its Equation Editor. When I open the Equation Editor, I would like to...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We need to be able to select a batch of items to delete, duplicate, move,  publish or whatever in one action.  Like cleaning out our email inbox.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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