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it is quite time consuming to set a requirement for each page/task/discussion in a module. It would be logical to display the requirements for all the items in a module by default, rather than clickin...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Can we have the option to Sync and Unsync assignments from the assignment page per se , instead of going to the assignment  list and do that?  The student view was added a couple of years ago and it h...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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User story: As an instructor, I want to measure Outcome achievement automatically while grading with a Rubric. Why is this needed? For assignments used to help document student achievement of Outcomes...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Students and instructors have noted a significant difference between how the iOS apps (both Teacher and Student) render some files and how they are rendered in the browser. Specifically a pptx file wh...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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A group of instructors in my school is utilizing the Learning Mastery Gradebook to track student learning over time.   We love it, but continue to find limitations.   The biggest one is allowing stude...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We use Canvas for all of our classes, and also for parent communication. We have a "Week at a Glance" page that contains information and reminders for the upcoming week. The notification that is sent ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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If it's possible it would be great to have the ability to resubmit or extend time on a submitted quiz, so not the subsequent quiz attempt. This would reflect a quiz, mid-term or final, that may extend...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In the RCE faculty can upload video files in the Upload Media tool without also adding the VTT (caption) file.  It is NOT that faculty do not know how to do this, they choose not to. The act of adding...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When an instructor creates a group project and students start submitting, the To-Do area shows that the instructor needs to grade X number of submissions based off the number of students represented i...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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The course search filter is pretty basic.  It seems as though the search filters were rushed and need to be re-thought.  My suggestions are below..  I hope others also agree and comment. 0. Right now,...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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With New Analytics, teachers can view the number of students who visited a page/item (as well as a total number of visits). They can also select a student to see the specific pages/items that student ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We've been informed of the (relatively) new addition of the declared_user_type field to users.csv (https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.sis_csv.html). We assume it's thus possible  to supply va...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I am looking for the grade display setting in the gradebook to apply to Speedgrader as well.    I give a weekly vocabulary quiz that is out of 55 points, but need to manually calculate student percent...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We have many folks who import quizzes via external tools or copy from other sites.  Having a creation/revision timestamp displayed next to the name could help folks identify a quiz after they import o...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be great to have a button to post a comment from this window- attached.   

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Feature Idea: Pull how long each student took on their quiz attempt in a list, either via the student analysis report or by some other means (e.g. New Analytics). Reasoning: Getting assessments develo...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently, there is a function to disable sync to PowerSchool in the 3 dot menu next to the blue +Assignment button on the Assignments page.   This function disables all assignments from syncing to Po...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Please allow users/faculty to select multiple student names with certain criteria/color from the gradebook and send an email - all at once. this way we can intervene easily. For example, I can easily ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Please add a feature to the Gradebook where users/faculty can color code the gradebook based on criteria that they set (rules). Yes you have the new analytics tool but this would be very helpful to ha...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Groups in Canvas Studio were recently made available. I know it is possible to manually create groups, but is it possible to automate the creation of groups? E.g. I have 30 departments I want to creat...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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