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Instructors can easily bulk-download student submissions, and instructors can individually download the PDF showing the annotations they've made to a student's submission in DocViewer. There is curren...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be awesome if instructors could add images to modules - specifically to add an image in the very first module in their list of modules. This way an instructor could create a Title Page to the...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This was up, but archived.  See Add, Create, or Modify a Calculated or the Total Column in the Gradebook.   Being able to calculate things in the grade book beyond adding things up or weighting and ad...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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When enrolling students to a course section, there is a small box for you to check to restrict the student to seeing only his/her own section and responses from other students only from his/her sectio...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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 When looking at the course outline: It would be nice if you could include a status column showing if you have submitted an assignment. And when it has been submitted a check mark followed by somethi...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This is an idea to modify group functionality so one can either export student group lists/rosters to a .csv spreadsheet format OR have groups listed in one of the spreadsheet columns when grades are ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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PLEASE develop folders and subfolders within question banks so questions can be organized for easier access in quiz creation.  If a teacher chooses to develop a quiz with a selected number of question...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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As a K-12, we love that Canvas has built-in rubrics for assignments. We are also thankful that whatever rubric we create is displayed prominently, just beneath the content of the assignment while in s...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I'm resubmitting the idea Limit visibility to Section Users submitted originally by Wade James and supporting information added by Ben Reynolds and  Melody CSUCanvasAdmin-Brake When dealing with multi...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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This idea was submitted previously and archived (see below). I would also request the same thing. For individual assignments, I would like to be able to "Assign to" by Group. I often divide the class ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  By default, the "Calculate based only on graded assignments" box is checked for all students in their individual grades view.  In the K-12 arena, this creates much confusion when a student is missin...

Instructure Canvas Ideas
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We would like to be able to download all of the discussion board posts from our course this semester for faculty analysis. We would also like students to be able to download and/or view all of their p...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  Currently instructors cannot create hypothetical scores for students like What-If scores. This would be very helpful as we get close to the end of the quarter to see if a student has the ability to ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Every semester we need the students to create a peer evaluation for their group projects. We would like for students to be able to rate their group members contribution to the group project. This feat...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I don't know why Canvas insists upon points for grading. Many of us are moving towards grading systems without points or letter grades (standards-based grading or specifications grading). Linda Nilson...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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It would be hugely helpful to district-level Canvas Admins to be able to modify and establish default course settings for course shells created for sections assigned to teacher users.   For example, i...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Currently, Canvas allows only one file to be attached to a discussion reply. We often use discussion boards as way for students to share and comment on each other's work. Having the ability to share m...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We are in need of flexibility in displaying final grades and assignment groups similar to the way that individual assignments have flexibility in the way they display. For example, I would like the op...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  Right now..... An event on the calendar has a default time of 12am on the date of the event.An assignment has a default time of 11:59pm on the date the assignment is due.   This causes an inconsiste...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Groups created from an enrollment within a course should always reflect the current status of that course's enrollment. It is a pain for instructors to have to manually remove students from course pro...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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