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We would like to see a native course evaluations tool in Canvas out of the box beyond that of a simple Canvas survey.  There are many external tools that can be connected to Canvas for this purpose, b...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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  Is it possible to reorder the Due Date, Available Until, & Module? It seems like students get confused by reading the Available Until date first and Due Date last? Also, is there anyway to BOLD the ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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There have now been countless times that I have lost work in the new quizzes editor because I navigated away and forgot to save. My hair is turning grey from this. Please display a warning box when th...

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Now that flex and grid properties are available for use (Canvas Deploy Notes (2021-07-07) ) in the HTML editor, could we also add the alignment properties to the allow list? They are being stripped ou...

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I usually don't know how many points a quiz will be worth before I make it. Classic Quizzes would just use the number of the points from the questions, but with New Quizzes it just stays at zero unles...

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Accessibility testers at our university found this user experience (UX) issue while conducting a thorough accessibility evaluation of Canvas. Description of problem: A UX issue that is not a failure o...

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When an assignment's submissions are queried using the API, you get something like the attached below (hopefully redacted enough). Notably, this DOES NOT include the speedgrader_url information, which...

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When a moderated assignment is set up it is required to specify a "moderator" who decides the final mark. When that person views an assignment submission, their perspective of the assignment is to pro...

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We like the newer confetti feature that can be enabled by the admin when assignments are completed on time.  The confetti varies for each assignment, sometimes including balloons or other shapes. We w...

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Will there be a way to prettify the Student Application buttons? Since they are autopopulating from external tools, it doesn't seem like we have access to edit those buttons. The mock ups that were pr...

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I like the the new  Comments Library feature.  I would like to see it expanded so that the library would also be accessible in the Comments within a rubric.  I use rubrics for grading just about every...

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We are getting ready to make a big push to move faculty from Original Quizzes to New Quizzes and we need to know the scope of this effort to discover which courses have Original Quizzes and how many O...

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The html editor used to have two buttons, one to enter superscript mode and a second to enter subscript mode.   Now, there is one, which gives you a superscript unless you pick off the subscript optio...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The new Speedgrader Assignment Comment Library feature is great but it would be even more helpful if multiple graders could make use of a comments library or if comments libraries could be shared. One...

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The new annotation assignment type does not have error messages/UI restrictions to warn instructors whenever they are attempting to do unsupported behaviour. Unsupported File Types The annotation assi...

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We would like to have the ability to track or report on who added a user to a course when someone has been added manually. We can see, via reporting, whether a user was added to a course via SIS data ...

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There needs to be an option to select multiple assignments and move them all at once to a different assignment group. It's absolutely painful to go through one at a time.

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Currently, students and faculty are met by the equivalent of pop-up ads for whatever various groups at the school want announced. Announcements made of images that are often individually longer than t...

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The full screen mode on the new rich content editor is a very nice addition. It makes it very easy to edit a page in full screen mode.  One of the things I have received in feedback from the faculty i...

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I love the formula questions, but when the default number of answers is 200 that makes the page very long to scroll down if I want to change something at the bottom like points or to add it to a quest...

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