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As a student, instructors can add assignments to the calendar so that we can see. Once we complete the assignment, the assignment title on the calendar can be crossed out. It would be helpful to have ...

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On this page "https://sjsu.instructure.com/courses/<course_id>/users" add a column (or columns) to show which group a student has been assigned to. At the moment we have: Name, Login ID, SIS ID, Secti...

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I would like to be able to set my default gradebook view. For example, I prefer to always use "Module first to last" for each gradebook. In the gradebook settings, I can't set this as my preferred vie...

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I love the media recording submissions. I just wish there was an option to pause rather than stop and rerecord. I do simulated conversations in my World Language classroom. I would like them to pause ...

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When I add people to my course, I see a setting that allows them to interact with students in their section only. I don't know what checking this box would mean since it appears that they would still ...

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In the New Analytics tool it would be very useful to be able to personalize the content of the messages to include the student's name. For example: Hello {{First_Name}}, I wanted to congratulate you o...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Under Permissions, we can prevent students from sending messages to the entire class OR to individual course members. We must have an option to allow students to message their teacher! There needs to ...

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Here's something that's irk'ed me for a few years... We allow access by Students and Instructors to the last 9 semesters of courses.  We always have this issue for Instructors when a Term Ends: "I hav...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We add users to courses using the People/+People button inside of our courses.For users who are brand new to Canvas - this sends them an email inviting them to register for a Canvas account. The user ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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The admin tools - view notifications feature is really helpful - unfortunately - it doesn't show communication to pending users.When you add a student to a course (who is brand new to Canvas) by using...

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All courses provisioned have the Discussion settings > Allow students to "create discussion topics". We would like it set to NO (un checked) that students can NOT create discussion topics...but facult...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It is easy to assign an assignment to select students. However, rather than just show "everyone" on assignments, it would be great if it could list all students in the course with a check box next to ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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All sections are currently visible to all students in places such as the Inbox. This means we cannot use sections for students with additional needs as their status is confidential. So, for elements l...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be extremely helpful if teachers could set various course navigation options with view/no view access for observers. One example would be Zoom integration. The teacher likely wants students t...

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Our university used Moodle for many years, and faculty were able to limit the number of files each student could upload for an assignment. This was useful so that each student would upload the same nu...

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When pulling up a User's profile from the Admin view, it's a pain to figure out which courses they're enrolled in this term, because the list is only sorted alphabetically, not by Term or by which cou...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In Assignments, once "edit assignment dates" is selected, more than one assignment can be selected and "Batch Edit" can be used. However, Batch Edit can only be used to 1) remove or 2) shift dates. Wh...

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Hi   I put forward the request to add a trash folder as part of the Canvas inbox system.  https://community.canvaslms.com/message/196984-re-if-i-send-an-email-through-canvas-and-i-accidently-delete-it...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I know we all LOVE  LOVE  LOVE  the "Message Students Who" feature from the Gradebook.    The one filter that doesn't seem right to me is the "Haven't been graded" option, because it includes the "Stu...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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There are some assignments that I manually enter grades for if it is submitted on paper in class. It would be nice to have a hot key option when entering grades for late, missing and excused work. Cur...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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