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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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I would like to suggest that Modules have a "Lock After" feature. Right now we can "Lock Until," but I like to show all modules and then I want them to disappear to the students after the due date has...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I would like to see a feature in Canvas that allows you to create an announcement then choose multiple courses  in which you would like to see the announcement posted.  The current process is time con...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Similar to a previously archived idea here: (Create rubrics offline and then upload.), it would be very, very helpful to be able to create a rubric offline and then import it into either the course or...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Students are limited to a miniature window through which to view what can be some detailed teacher comments on written assignments using the SpeedGrader CrocDoc function. To see comments teachers have...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Instructors can easily bulk-download student submissions, and instructors can individually download the PDF showing the annotations they've made to a student's submission in DocViewer. There is curren...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be awesome if instructors could add images to modules - specifically to add an image in the very first module in their list of modules. This way an instructor could create a Title Page to the...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This was up, but archived.  See Add, Create, or Modify a Calculated or the Total Column in the Gradebook.   Being able to calculate things in the grade book beyond adding things up or weighting and ad...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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When enrolling students to a course section, there is a small box for you to check to restrict the student to seeing only his/her own section and responses from other students only from his/her sectio...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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The June 12 release of Canvas Commons (Commons Release Notes (2016-06-12) replaced the previous subaccount-based sharing permissions structure with a new "Groups" model. These Groups require manual ma...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Right now, if a user logs in to our Canvas instance on a mobile device, they have no way of knowing which Canvas instance they are logging in to. This is true of both mobile browser (left) and mobile ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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 When looking at the course outline: It would be nice if you could include a status column showing if you have submitted an assignment. And when it has been submitted a check mark followed by somethi...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This is an idea to modify group functionality so one can either export student group lists/rosters to a .csv spreadsheet format OR have groups listed in one of the spreadsheet columns when grades are ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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PLEASE develop folders and subfolders within question banks so questions can be organized for easier access in quiz creation.  If a teacher chooses to develop a quiz with a selected number of question...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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