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In the formula questions, you can select the number of decimal points a number should have, but in the preview of the generated solutions it will display with fewer decimal points if there are trailin...

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With 100% remote teaching during the COVID pandemic, I and my colleagues are blending synchronous and asynchronous content. We are creating quite a few videos that we house in Studio and embed into Ca...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Placing an option to message a student from within Speedgrader would be wonderful.  I know there's a comment section but I find students rarely look at that.  

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CSV-imports are great for SIS-integrations and bulk updates. However, it happens that we just wish to update one user status, i.e. reactivating a user. This would be easily done if admins have access ...

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I am an instructional designer supporting and instructor who is using team based learning. In his course he has students take a quiz individually, then the same quiz as a team. The second team based q...

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The regrade function in New Quiz is really useful, but we'd like to see the option to add more than one alternative correct answer.  For example, an instructor recently ran a quiz with his students, a...

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 Teachers need to be able to enable and disable lockdown browser for quizzes while in quiz edit mode instead of having to go to another page.

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I recently tried to send a message to my students through Canvas' messaging system. The message would not send and I got a notice saying 'invalid recipients'. I spent an hour on the phone trying to re...

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I am a Canvas Admin in a K-12 Environment. Although we have used Canvas for about 6 years, this is the first school year we are seeing very heavy use of the platform in all subject areas. One issue th...

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It would be very helpful for parents and other users - such as guidance - to be able to view student analytics. There does not seem to be a setting to grant this without also giving them access to oth...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Currently, table properties allow for Cell Padding and Cell Spacing. Cell spacing will not be visible when the border-collapse property is set to collapse, but will be present when set to separate. I ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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When a user is enrolled in a course and their enrollment is limited to a section they should not have the option to add a discussion for 'All sections'. Instead they should be presented with a default...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When a rubric is edited at the sub-account or course level the criteria and rating descriptions update for feedback already delivered to students. This creates a situation where we don't have proper v...

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Currently while in student view if you have prerequisites for a module you have to remove these in order to see an assignment or a module as a student. It would be nice to be able to view all assignme...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When testing the requirements of a course in student view, the instructor must meet all module requirements.  Therefore, the student view should allow the instructor to test those module requirements ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Hi, We would like the ability to correct the enrollment and completion date of students enrollments in Canvas Catalog. Currently, the Catalog API, does not have POST API for us to change the enrollmen...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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In classic quizzes, the multiple answer question type allows instructors to preload student feedback for every answer choice, just like with ordinary multiple choice questions. That feature has been e...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I know there is a feature request out there to allow HTML in assignment comments, which would solve this idea. But, in case HTML in comments is not possible/feasible, I'm offering this as a separate r...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When going back and grading late work, I always have to go back and forth from individual assignments to the main grade book, but with 100s of students and a lot of assignments, having to rescroll to ...

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It would be an amazingly handy feature if I could send out bulk progress reports to Observers.  So, it would send each observer a progress report of their student.  Going through and doing this indivi...

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