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By default, we do not allow Instructors (Teachers) to add Students to their course, since these course enrollments are populated by our SIS. The problem is that the instructor can add other Roles to t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be awesome if Canvas allowed instructors to restore their new quizzes to previous "versions" after edits/changes are made. This would be similar to Google docs where you could write up a enti...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Instructors should be allowed to navigate between any student's test log after clicking "view log" in the moderate this quiz section. The way this would work would be similar to speed grader where the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In speedgrader, if you click on the trash icon next to an annotation, you get a modal that asks "Are you shure you want to delete..." with options Cancel/OK. OK is highlighted as the default choice. B...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In our honours project course we run group projects and we require double-marking of final theses/reports for quality control. Unfortunately, there is an inexplicable limitation in Canvas that you can...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hi All I have been speaking to a few colleagues about tracking locations of questions/items when reviewing quizzes and associated analytics. We have several quizzes where questions are randomly select...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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As a teacher, I would like to have a "search" function on the Group session. When a student wants to switch group, is so annoying that I have to open group one by one to see where is that student and ...

Community Member 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.  

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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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 ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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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.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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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