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Your new "Assignment Allowed Attempts" feature is useful and aligns the behavior of assignments and quizzes in Canvas. Please consider adding the option of per-user-reattempts for assignments. This ca...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We need the ability to tag our students, especially in areas like Chat. Sometimes we need to get our student's attention, to make sure they see things (esp. with so many courses online), or to get a t...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Many of our courses allow a student to take the course as a letter grade or P/F.  Currently, we have no way to account for this in the Canvas gradebook since every letter requires a percentage attache...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I make my Modules the home page for my students, and I like for them to see the most recent information first.  As it is now, the default is for new modules and content to post to the bottom of the fe...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Hi   I am using the rubric to grade in speegrader. However, in the speedgrader panel the rubric descriptions are enlarging the table making it hard to view the entire rubric.   After a while, I don't ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When students submit their work as pdf documents for quizzes, then the instructor need to download the pdfs for grading. When students submit their work as pdf documents for assignments, then DocViewe...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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In higher education, we have the need to give a 0 to all students who did not submit their assignment after the cut-off date (available until date in Canvas). Right now, the missing submissions featur...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In Speedgrader: an option to view the number of completed graded assignments (similar to what is provided in the grade book)   Numerator: number of assignments gradeddenominator: number of assignments...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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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We have graphics on our home page which link directly to the different modules in our course and when we click it takes us to the module page but you can also see all of the other modules at the same ...

Community Novice 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 Coach Canvas Ideas
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Assignments Page - Needs Arrow or "Next" Button for Easy Scrolling to Avoid Using Back Button Each Time - Please.   On the Assignments page, I currently have about 20 assignments uploaded for the rest...

Community Member 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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I'm creating a batch of quizzes with a common set of answer choices (much like multiple choice) where a fill-in-the-blank (FIB) style is desired. I find that I am typing the same set of anser options ...

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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As we move from Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes, I would love to have the option to add a "Text (no question)" question type in a New Quiz (as we have in Classic Quizzes). This opens the opportunity to...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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