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When a teacher wants to add a rubric to an assignment, they currently have to search through all of their courses to find the right one. This may require them to scroll down a long list before they fi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Our school uses the current quizzing feature for a lot of our assessments, and we are also using a grading scheme to have grades show the same way in the grade book. With the current quizzing feature ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In the April 1, 2017 production release, a new feature was introduced that allows students to export course content for offline viewing.   However, once an admin checks the box to "allow students to d...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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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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Current Situation The current audio submission tool is decent, but it is neither robust nor efficient, and, most importantly, it is not available for quizzes.   Problem For second/foreign language cou...

Community Novice 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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It would be a wonderful addition to allow multiple numerical blank questions.  Essentially take the numerical answer question and cross it with the fill in multiple blanks type of question.  Many inst...

Community Contributor 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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All discussion posts and attachments (MS Word, PPT, PDF files, etc.) should be displayed in SpeedGrader like an assignment so that teachers can use mark-up tools to add comments to those posts and att...

Community Member 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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      Idea open for vote Wed. November 2, 2016 - Wed. February 1, 2017  Learn more about voting...   As a Canvas Admin, I would like to enable students to view their courses for a specified period ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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