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TL;DR: The ability for users to hide the grading, comments, and files area so documents can be viewed in full screen when grading in the Teacher App.    The Teacher app currently doesn't give the abil...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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When I enter a new assignment into the calendar it is posted on the due date and NOT on the day it is assigned.  Not good.  It would be much better for parents and students using the calendar to know ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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The new(ish) option to require students to be in the same section when assigning group members is great! However, there is one more feature that would make this incredibly useful (especially in large ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When grading papers or other file uploads from students, the ability to use formatted text in the annotation tools would be really helpful. For example, if a student is not formatting citations proper...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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My skill with drawing using a mouse in Docviewer  is rather lackluster.  So my thought is a palette of predefined images would be ever so helpful.  A question mark, green check mark, new paragraph, et...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I have an instructor who says a student is repeatedly posting inappropriate content in a Discussion Board, even after the instructor has given guidance as to appropriate posting.  Currently, the only ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I have had several students request that they have the ability to "check off" and "flag" certain items within a modules.  They would like to be able to "check off" when something is completed and flag...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Student enrollments which have been set to the "inactive" status currently show up on the People page tagged with the "inactive" label. We are now using the inactive status for students who have enrol...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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An ALL COURSES link should be added to the Dashboard.  Either below the course cards, or in the right side navigation.    Students sometime call during the first days of the semester because they cann...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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In my testing, the highlight tool in DocViewer doesn't automatically open the annotation. When you highlight a section of text, it shows an icon that you then need to click on in order to add a commen...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be useful for us if we could enable students to see exactly which questions they got partially or fully wrong. We use Assignment Grading rubrics and the SpeedGrader to individually input the ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Currently, when new files are added to a course, a notification is sent to students with a link stating "You can view them here." However, this link simply directs them to the root folder of the Files...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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The home pages are a critical part of any course as they offer students guidance on where to begin when they first log in to a course. For many of our faculty, these pages serve a very specific purpos...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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With the new "Color Overlay" feature for course card images in this weeks Beta Release Notes, I think there should be a way to set the default behavior at an account level (edit: not subaccount level,...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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I have found the "message students who..." function in gradebook very effective to nudging students to complete assignments. I suggest an option that, when you create the assignment, you can automatic...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Account Roles created at the root-account level automatically 'trickle down' to the sub-accounts and there is currently no way to prevent this from happening.   It would be great to be able to create ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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In order to assess and grade a student on participation in the discussion boards, it would be helpful to be able to see all of that student's posts aggregated on a single page. Of course the replies w...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Currently when a student is finishes answering a question they must select next question or submit answer button to move onto the next question or end the assignment.   Many of my students would lik...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I would like to see the total points earned on an individual module in the grade book. I would also like to be able to push this score to our SIS instead of individual grades from the module.  I do a ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Right now, as it stands, you can create a pre-test and then trigger 3 paths using Mastery Paths. But, if I give a due date for each item in the Mastery Path (before student interaction), this due date...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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