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We use some publicly or institutionally visible Canvas courses to host content so that it can be easily linked and available in our Syllabi and course resources pages.  Unfortunately, links within a c...

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It's come to our attention that there is no way to update an email address or mailing address in Catalog for a Catalog User which causes issues in reporting and account management.  As it currently st...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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admin, courses, course selection, settings, sections - It would be great if we could set the start date by section. I have several courses that have multiple sections and they do not all start at the ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In the Learning Mastery Gradebook, there are a list of outcomes from left to right that are in order based on the upload file or import order. The columns of objectives can be dragged and dropped but ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I really like the color overlay for courses I have created. However, I'm also enrolled in courses created by other instructors, who use colorful images. I have experimented with different color hex co...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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An option to add a brief text description in a module would be helpful. This could be done like the text header, except with smaller font.   It can be used to give an overview of the module's contents...

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When you use the Blueprint feature in Canvas you get a sync log to show which child courses were successfully updated. It also shows which ones could not be updated. If there was a way to download tha...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When a template is in place in an account or sub-account, the template is copied into any new course created there. Since the Reset Course Content process creates a new course, the template is applied...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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If student names are displayed in SpeedGrader, the default is first name, last name.  When a student has a particularly long first name or names, there is not enough space for the last name to be disp...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It would save a lot of time if teachers could create any kind of assignment, discussion, page, quiz, etc. -- basically anything -- in the "calendar", instead of being limited to only "Assignments". Th...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would appreciate it so much if Canvas could find a way for teachers to "lock" student appointments in the calendar, forcing the student to have a conversation with the teacher in order to change the...

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Teachers have very little control over what students receive notifications for, or over the visibility of course content. It is enormously helpful to be able to set materials to go "live" at a predete...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Home pages are often set with information that is essential on the first day of class, but that students do not need to review every time they visit the course.  Meanwhile, getting students to move on...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem: Each semester a few students are confused when they fall behind and the next button brings them to an assignment that is no longer available due to being past the "until" date.  Since "studen...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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We are trying to completely eliminate the need for EdPuzzle and just use Studio. Our math teachers are the ones who currently use Edpuzzle on a daily basis, but unfortunately Studio is the least frien...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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To display the last modified date when any files are added/removed/updated to the respective folders..    (Why: It help track if any new changes were made and when)There already seems to be a column/ ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I just ran my first course New Analytics analysis. I did not read the instructor manual on it figuring I could figure out what to do.  One thing that bothered me was that when you go to the reports, t...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice if students could access an answer key immediate upon submission of an assignment to assess their work. This can already be done in quizzes, but the quiz function has other limitation...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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There should be an option to remove assignments that won't count toward a student's grade from the gradebook and the student's grade page. My gradebook is cluttered by formative assignments that won't...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I would like the ability to quickly access completion of formative assignments and quizzes, similar to walking around the classroom and glancing at the students work. It is burdensome to open each ass...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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