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Currently, the gradebook_history_api.feed (https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/gradebook_history.html#method.gradebook_history_api.feed), (and actually all of the gradebook_history endpoints), cont...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/8437-graderid-endpoint-for-the-gradebookhistoryapifeedThe gradebook_history_api.feed (https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/gradebook_history.html#method.gradebo...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Situation Frequently email addresses used in Canvas bounce emails while admin are completely unaware this is happening. Possible causes: people start using other email addresses and close the previous...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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It would be great to change the size of the fill-in blank answer spaces instead of the small size that is there for one or two words. We are trying to mimic the PARCC test (text extraction) and it wou...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This idea would allow the ability for instructors who are wanting to open up prior quizzes for a review for the upcoming test but later restrict access not only to the answers but also the questions. ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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We would like to implement standards-based grading for all of our honors courses at our grades 6-12 institution. Yet there are two big features missing from the Learning Mastery Gradebook that current...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I would love to be able to set different access codes for a quiz for each section of the class. Because they meet at different times, I have to edit the quiz after each section takes it to change the ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I'm a designer.  I have a ton of courses in my "all courses" list, and would like to periodically switch which ones I'm able to quickly access from my customized list, even if the course is one from t...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Situation The due date of the assignment reminds students to complete the assignment in time. When peer reviews are enabled students don't have an indication or reminder to complete the peer reviews b...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice if Canvas administrators had access to a user setting that would disable the users ability to post new inbox messages or respond to messages they receive.

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Situation Canvas does not respect the sections when assigning peer reviews when automatically assigning peers in an assignment is set. This means a student from section A might be assigned as peer to ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Hello, I would like to request an enhancement to the LTI report based on the archived idea Report for LTIs (External Apps) Usage and a concern that account-level LTI configurations are not being repor...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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While a similar idea was suggested before (No Note Character Limit ), I think the Gradebook Notes column is a valuable feature that, with an increased character limit, would be even more useful.  Curr...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I am fleshing out a an earlier feature request that evidently didn't go anywhere (*Display Student Email Address in Roster ). At our university, the SIS_ID displayed in the People list and the Seconda...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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It seems this has been a reoccurring request for some time now, but is not generating the votes needed to get attention. Perhaps it is time to try again!   Canvas would benefit greatly from being able...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Notifications sent via Canvas are currently not able to be branded.  This means that the emails sent to parents and students currently include the Canvas name and logo. This can cause some confusion w...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Files such as syllabi will be different for different sections. Why isn't there a way to make these visible to some sections but not others, aside from putting them into an illogical category like "as...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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The printable roster is nice but the photos are much too small to be useful. The size of the photos, when available, should be selectable by instructors (e.g., small, medium, large). It would be nice ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Teachers should be able to click on the individual student name from the gradebook and then change grades and add comments from the Students Grade Page (which shows all assignments from that one stude...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When I use the grade book I like to enter zeros for work not submitted by using the "set default grade" feature. It would be very beneficial if there were also a "Set Default Comment" feature that ope...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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