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In the current workflow of the new assignment enhancements feature, students cannot submit their submission from the 'comments' tab. Some students after attaching their work, will add a comment for th...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In a pass/fail quiz, students would need to get a certain number of questions correct to earn full points.  For example, a Quiz that has 10 questions is either worth 75 points or 0 points at the end o...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It looks like this was suggested in 2017 but not done....In the grade book, it would be great to add  "Needs Grading" to the dropdown menu options, so we can quickly navigate to the students who have ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When canvas chat is turned on, it was explained to me that by default it is enabled for all courses in the account.  Below, I have explained reasons why Canvas Chat should be initially disabled by def...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Hi, In Canvas there is not possible to see the trend in overall page views and thereby monitor the usage of the plattform. In account anlytics the page views are divided into terms and this does not r...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Hello! I would like to suggest a feature in Canvas messages that enables a user to export conversation and message chains for external archiving. As an instructor, it would be useful to easily save st...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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If an instructor links a rubric to an assignment, enters data in the rubric in the speedgrader, and then un-links the rubric from that assignment, all data entered in the rubric will permanently lost ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Teachers need a toggle to hide rubrics till the teacher release it, a date, or when all students have submitted. I want to be to make an assignment where students complete it one day, and then the nex...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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When administering a New Quiz that has a specific timed availability window defined, the dates of the availability window are displayed to the student, but not the times. For example, this quiz is onl...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Add option to delete and not just remove assignments/pages/quizzes directly from modules

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Currently when I am editing a new quiz, I can't delete it.  I have to get out and delete it from assignments page or quizzes page.   It sure would be nice just to delete it from within while in the ed...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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New analytics should have editable date ranges. This allows for more useful data.

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We are working on import masses of questions via question banks. Currently, when you import a QTI file, there is no option on New Quizzes for question bank creation: Why not? The fact New Quizzes run...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Assignments allow for us to check "Do not count this assignment towards the final grade" while still entering a grade/points. This allows for "progress report" grade.  I would love to see this option ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Emailed notifications include "new comments" to discussions but it would also be helpful if discussion notifications indicated "edited" posts, not just new ones. If I have already read the post, I nee...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I'd like to set up a quiz in which I key each question to one of four outcomes. I'd like to be able to grade the quiz by seeing how many points students earn in each of the categories. (Each category ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Completing assessment online is fast becoming the norm in Australia, and our students are expected to complete a range of tests via this method, including extended writing pieces. In order to prepare ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Separate discussion permission for edit and delete posts   Current option allows users to: "Edit and delete their own posts"   I might want to allow students to "delete" their posts but not to edit th...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Assignments and Classic Quizzes have an option to Download All Files or Download Submissions, either for Assignment submissions or for the files submitted to a File Upload quiz question. Since New Qui...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Post Annotations and Grades Separately It would be extremely beneficial to have the ability to post feedback separately from posting grades. This is an extension of a previous idea on the community: h...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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