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In addition to the grades that appear in the Canvas course grading scheme, many higher ed Student Information Systems accept alternative values (typically alphanumeric) to indicate special situations ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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This would produce an editable file that could be used for course planning and revisions. The format could be txt or docx. It would allow an instructor or course designer to easily mark up the course ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I would like to suggest that when a rubric is deleted from an assignment it doesn't get completed deleted from the course.  It makes no sense that it would be completed deleted.  If I hadn't verified ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In speedgrader on the web, teachers have to "check" or "tick" pen annotations. This is different from most annotation apps.  The need to "check" to save pen annotations is confusing since that is not ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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With assignment enhancements enabled this semester, we repeatedly ran into an issue where students told our support staff and their teachers that they submitted work, even though SpeedGrader did not s...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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There are many configuration parameters for LTIs (see the external tools API docs) that are only available to change/edit through either the API or through editing XML (LTI 1.0/1.11) / JSON (LTI 1.3)....

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We are able to archive inbox messages, but it would be great if we could also archive sent messages.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Currently if you have an assignment set to complete/incomplete grading and worth 0 points, if you download the gradebook, all students are shown as having 0s rather than completes and incompletes. "Ex...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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If I am working in a page or an assignment and need to deal with an embedded video in Studio, it can be a pain to navigate there.  It would be lovely to be able to somehow click on a video and go dire...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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If I am working in a page, assignment, etc. where there are Studio videos, and I want to do something with the videos in the pages, it can be difficult because I can't see the title of the video.  So,...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would love it to be easier to view the insights for Studio videos.  If comments are enabled or there is a quiz embedded in the video, insights appear to the instructor directly under the video where...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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An interesting nuance (and annoyance) that I have spotted this year when I generate pairing codes is that Canvas seems to generate the codes randomly and often they contain a capital I (the letter bet...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This goes along with https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Canvas-Inbox-Messages-Fully-Obey-Course-Participation-Settings/idc-p/459284 Once a course has closed, whether by course dates...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When we create a Bank type question in a quiz it will only select from the entire Item Bank. Please let us refine the selection with a tag. This would make so that we do not have to duplicate question...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I am preparing to write Quizzes for my future stats students in canvas. In order for this to work I am in need of a few more standard functions in the library for Formula questions: cdf functions for ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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For reference, this course is a county-wide assessment for all 8th grade students.  We have multiple sections, and several Graders (for moderated grading), and all students need to submit within a two...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Adding a feature upgrade to select multiple listings for a promo code to apply within one set-up screen. Currently, there is only the option of applying a promo code to ONE listing or ALL listings wit...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I have just discovered the "Reassign" button. Can we consider adding another functions? With the "reassign" button, either allow instructor to change due & close date for that specific student, or bum...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently, the Equation Editor does not appear to have options to control font or color directly. I found an old topic from 2016 that implied that an adjustable font size was being added, but it looks...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Currently, if students try to view their quiz submissions in New Quizzes for a past course, they encounter a "403 - Forbidden" error. This is true even if the quiz and course settings are configured ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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