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I like to give students a studio video as feedback in Quizzes. It works great in Classic quizzes, but apparently the studio quiz isn't compatible with the feedback box in New Quizzes. I've been workin...

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Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same need, please feel free to comment. We'd love to hear your thoughts. Please find here improvements re...

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Please change the way Pages section of Canvas courses load.  Currently, not all pages are automatically loaded when click Pages link, instead user has to constantly keep scrolling to get to see all th...

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I would like suggest adding a checkbox at the top of each Module (right next to the "Publish/Unpublish" checkbox so we can quickly lock and unlock an entire Module at a time.

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Working in Higher Ed means that a lot of the same course content is used session after session. When copying a course blueprint, there is a setting called "Adjust events and due dates > Shift dates". ...

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I am responsible to create all of the course associations from our Blue Prints.  I don't see a way to "Lock ALL of the Modules" in one fail swoop. It would be a huge time saver for myself and probably...

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I would like to have instructure add a warning dialog box when a non-empty folder is trying to be deleted. Currently if you delete a folder all you get is the dialog box to confirm deletion of the fol...

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When moderating tests, it takes about 3 clicks per student to regrade.  Could you please have a student name and dropdown box on this page like in your “Quick Scoring?” Currently, we have to click an ...

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When a faculty requests students to upload a file to an upgraded Discussion post, if their User Files is full (50 MB), they receive an error that says nothing about why they can't add their file. "Fil...

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Problem:  I get a notification of a grade on browser. There is a dot by grades within my course module. I click the link to "Grades". When I get there I do not see any kind of relevant information or ...

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Could you please create a 'Find a Link Tool" so that we can search for a link  (that we previously made on a page, assignment etc) so that we change the link, move the link or remove the link? This wi...

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In the Canvas SpeedGrader you can see whether or not a student has viewed the feedback added to files submitted with an assignment.  The Canvas API provides data about whether or not feedback has been...

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The ability to preview what a module of individually published resources would look like to a student BEFORE publishing the module itself. At present you need to actually publish the module before "st...

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When finding files in the "Files" environment, the ability to search for a file then "Go to Folder"; this would make file management much easier

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As it says in the Instructor Guide: You cannot use a rubric for grading in quizzes, since quiz scores are calculated based on the number of points assigned to each quiz question. But this is what I wa...

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Additional field in the Grading scheme, outside from the numerical scale. (e.g.: New field Not done) Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same...

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Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same need, please feel free to comment. We'd love to hear your thoughts.   Need Add a new setting in the ...

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Group sets in Canvas group assignments are often difficult to set up correctly. If steps are not performed in exactly the correct order, SpeedGrader can be impacted in ways that make the grading proce...

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Background: Many of our university's courses use multiple sections per course, which are generated (and for combined courses automatically cross-listed) by our own integration with Canvas based on how...

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Today we received a message from an instructor: I am looking to import material from a previous module/Canvas "course" to this year's version. If I choose "copy Canvas course" or "Canvas course export...

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