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We have accumulated a fairly good amount of terms as we create the terms via SIS.  When going into sub-accounts, we are forced to constantly choose a semester from a lengthy list (and it is only getti...

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Currently, admins can create grading schemes at an account level and them have them accessible in all courses. If you create a grading scheme within one of your courses though, it is only available in...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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When a course is linked to a Blueprint course and a change is made on an unlocked item have an additional box come up to confirm the save is desired and will disassociate from the Blueprint course and...

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An issue we are facing is that changing the point value of a question in New Quizzes does not change the value in the assignment settings in Canvas. We have to manually backtrack and adjust the score ...

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In a 1-1 iPad environment many assignments get completed using Apple Pencils on .pdf documents. Whenever this happens it would be great to have the ability to pass feedback back and forth quickly betw...

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Background and problem There was a change to the course availability dates in March 2021. At our university we just now discovered 761 old courses that have their own start date, but no end date. This...

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If the Rich Content Editor would be available in the Calendar Scheduler then, using the Microsoft Teams LTI app I would be able to embed a link to a Teams meeting that will be seen by only the student...

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Role: Instructor   Idea: The outcome analysis report currently combines all students in a single instructor's class into one document in the outcome analysis report. It would be helpful for teachers a...

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Role: Instructor The outcomes analysis function currently sorts students in alphabetical order by first name. It would be easier for users if it sorted by last name so that schools with incompatible g...

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As a Canvas administrator, I can run a report to see if we have any students or instructors that have bounced e-mail addresses in Canvas following the steps in: How do I view bounced email notificatio...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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It would be great if you could access on the Rich Content Editor tools when adding text into the new Feedback Library, or at the very least have the ability to add a linked URL. Currently URL's aren't...

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Currently, if there is an issue with a peer review, I cannot assign a second peer review for the same student. The student assigned initially does not show in the drop down box for reassignment

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If you select a comment from your comment library and then want to add another comment from the comment library, the first one is deleted.  It would be helpful to be able to layer comments. Our facult...

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Our district has a new policy where missing work gets a 50% F, but we can't enter the grade until two weeks after the due date.  The gradebook will already post a specified grade for missing assignmen...

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Sent and received emails often have common themes and so for improved efficiency and productivity these emails should be organized into email folders with self-documenting titles.  Currently the Canva...

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Every time that I receive or send a message I need to first identify the course. The label associated with a course that has several sections are all the same even though I assign distinctive nickname...

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Using "Enter Grades as" I deliberately specified that Gradebook scores be displayed as percentages. But exported Excel csv file has the grades in their original raw data format. My grading process req...

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Every item in a canvas course has a "Previous" and a "Next" except for the last item in a course which does not have a "Next". SpeedGrader should behave similarly. When the Speedgrader setting is disp...

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The course summary in the Syllabus page displays dated assignments in chronological order at the top, followed by undated assignments in alphabetical order. This can be very confusing and hard to navi...

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The comment library feature is being used by faculty at my institution; however, as the number of comments continue to increase in the library, managing them becomes more difficult with no way of grou...

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