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When I'm using the Rich Content Editor and inserting a hyperlink, I'd like to be able to link to the "Outcomes" area of the course. But while the other course areas (e.g., "Home", "Announcements", "Sy...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently, if a student tries to access a module that is not published, they get a message that says, "This page is part of the module [insert module name here] and hasn't been unlocked yet." This con...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When an online submission assignment is created, and "file upload" is chosen, our district has 10 options for submitting a file (because of some additional apps we have installed). This is very overwh...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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To properly modify assignments and quizzes multiple versions must be created. This can cause issues in grading particularly when your instance is synced via an SIS. Why not have the ability to merge a...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Currently, faculty must move students individually from group to group in the Canvas Groups area. When moving students from one group to another, each student must be dragged from one group and droppe...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Our faculty use the Canvas Calendar Appointment Group tool, which allows students to sign up for appointments with faculty. The tool allows faculty to schedule meetings based on dates and time ranges ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When building rubrics, it could be very valuable to be able to include hyperlinks or basic formatting to criterion details and rating descriptions. It would make the feedback/feedforward loop much mor...

Community Team Canvas Ideas
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Instructional designer would like to use SCORM as a plug-in in the RCE toolbar and add as an assignment in all of the courses they are designing. Currently it is only available at the Course Navigatio...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I just created a new Sub-Account, under my root, Yay!, and now I want to use a specific Permissions configuration from another sub-account... Ooops, there is no way to export a sub-account Permissions...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I love the new student annotation feature, however the students are only able to annotate using the keyboard and mouse/touchpad. We would love for students to be able to use their finger to draw on th...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I love the new Student Annotation feature; there are so many applications for student use! However, there is no way for students to revise that assignment (which really seems to be an issue for ALL as...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hello! This is a student here with a small suggestion to add tooltips for the row of icons on the top of the Dashboard in ListView. This would be a small improvement but would allow the icons to be mo...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently, files uploaded to Modules cannot have added instructions or comments associated with them.  Please add this feature (i.e. please ass the rich content editor to each item one enters into Mod...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We have had several faculty request the ability to set up an Assignment or Discussion or Quiz to award points for ANY SUBMISSION.  So the student would get a 0 for no submission and full points for an...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Finding and optionally replacing a string is an important editing function. Currently the Canvas Rich Content Editor does not have a string matching and replacement capability. String  matching is an ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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We in are in K-12 environment where all our grade weighting groups are standardized for all courses. All of our classes use the Assignment Groups "Major", "Minor", and "Class Participation" and all ha...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The New User Tutorial feature also removes the maximum width setting of Canvas to expand to the full width of the browser, removing the pesky white space. Why these two features are tied together make...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It appears that default course sections don't receive SIS IDs when a course is created. If this is true, then this means that during standard operation, a Canvas instance will start to accumulate mult...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I have a teacher with a suggestion that I want to share on her behalf: On the Dashboard, have items listed in the To Do list color-coded so they match the course color and calendar....

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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For a native Canvas assignment, can a feature be added that allows users to view the similarity scores for all submissions combined in a single list?  Currently the only options to view these are in S...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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