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Problem statement: It would be helpful to somehow be able to turn off the "To Do" & "Coming Up" for specific courses. Problem: We have people that have been added to courses purely to be in the know o...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Parents that have more than one child are seeing their students grades mixed with each other. When each student has 8-12 courses per term, parents do not have a quick and easy view ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a module has an unpublished item such as a page, sometimes students cannot progress past that module even when they have completed all the published items (view pages, etc.). I...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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When accessing Canvas Studio from within Canvas, the landing page only displays videos and collections that I have created myself.  Those that were shared with me from others are not visible.  The end...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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If an Assignment is added to a module, then this module is displayed under this assignment on the Assignment Index Page The suggestion would be that there should be an option to turn off the display o...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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For those who have sections cross-listed in a Canvas course shell, Roll Call Attendance can be filtered by section for taking attendance. This is extremely helpful.  However, when creating an Attendan...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When looking at a list of Item Banks, it would be useful to be able to filter the list to only show banks that included questions using certain tags. Currently, you can only filter questions within a ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Right now, when a student or parent clicks on "View Grades" it is a laundry list of courses with the final percentage next to each one.  This is not a very user-friendly view and often confuses parent...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When specifying the due dates for an assignment, a skip by year, as well as a skip by month function in the calendar would be useful. At my institution, the previous year's Canvas course is copied for...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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As Sys Admin in Canvas, I am getting feedback from our Field Test teachers about having to see so many assignments when they go to sync in canvas now.  It shows all the assignments from all time and h...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Recently I learned that filtering the display in the Grades tool by section also applies the same section filter in the SpeedGrader. This is not intuitive at all and makes for a bad user experience. T...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea is to give instructors the ability to filter the student list in the gradebook by the amount of time they spent on a given assessment from the sort by option available from the grade column ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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The idea is to sort the student list in the People page by Total Activity (see screenshot for reference) – to ultimately identify those who have spent the shortest amount of time in the course. Image ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Our institution has over 1000 terms on one of our instances, and the terms menu on the Courses page has become pretty non-functional. There are times it does not load at all, or when it does load it c...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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 Replace the first column of...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When an instructor creates a group project and students start submitting, the To-Do area shows that the instructor needs to grade X number of submissions based off the number of students represented i...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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The course search filter is pretty basic.  It seems as though the search filters were rushed and need to be re-thought.  My suggestions are below..  I hope others also agree and comment. 0. Right now,...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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With New Analytics, teachers can view the number of students who visited a page/item (as well as a total number of visits). They can also select a student to see the specific pages/items that student ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When moving the Override column around in the gradebook, it sticks until the instructor uses the Reorder filter to reorder the columns; when that happens, the position of the Override column reverts b...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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