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As a K-12, we love that Canvas has built-in rubrics for assignments. We are also thankful that whatever rubric we create is displayed prominently, just beneath the content of the assignment while in s...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I'm resubmitting the idea Limit visibility to Section Users submitted originally by Wade James and supporting information added by Ben Reynolds and  Melody CSUCanvasAdmin-Brake When dealing with multi...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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This idea was submitted previously and archived (see below). I would also request the same thing. For individual assignments, I would like to be able to "Assign to" by Group. I often divide the class ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  By default, the "Calculate based only on graded assignments" box is checked for all students in their individual grades view.  In the K-12 arena, this creates much confusion when a student is missin...

Instructure Canvas Ideas
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We would like to be able to download all of the discussion board posts from our course this semester for faculty analysis. We would also like students to be able to download and/or view all of their p...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  Currently instructors cannot create hypothetical scores for students like What-If scores. This would be very helpful as we get close to the end of the quarter to see if a student has the ability to ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Our nursing and OTA staff are using self-assessments to help students evaluate their confidence in the skills they are learning for certification. The idea is that they can take this assessment and ch...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I would like to see this idea open for voting again. Our organization is new to Canvas 2015-16. We are just now figuring this out. When a student makes a comment on an assignment, it does not appear i...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Every semester we need the students to create a peer evaluation for their group projects. We would like for students to be able to rate their group members contribution to the group project. This feat...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  Students need a way to pin (or perhaps bookmark) where they are leaving off in a module so they can quickly return to that location on subsequent login.   This previously posted idea Bookmark is int...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I don't know why Canvas insists upon points for grading. Many of us are moving towards grading systems without points or letter grades (standards-based grading or specifications grading). Linda Nilson...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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It would be hugely helpful to district-level Canvas Admins to be able to modify and establish default course settings for course shells created for sections assigned to teacher users.   For example, i...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Currently, Canvas allows only one file to be attached to a discussion reply. We often use discussion boards as way for students to share and comment on each other's work. Having the ability to share m...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We are in need of flexibility in displaying final grades and assignment groups similar to the way that individual assignments have flexibility in the way they display. For example, I would like the op...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  Right now..... An event on the calendar has a default time of 12am on the date of the event.An assignment has a default time of 11:59pm on the date the assignment is due.   This causes an inconsiste...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Groups created from an enrollment within a course should always reflect the current status of that course's enrollment. It is a pain for instructors to have to manually remove students from course pro...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Standardized testing looms large in the minds of all 3-8 grade teachers, in NJ where I work especially,  but also across the country. One of the skills students need to be able to succeed on the PARCC...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Greetings: Thank you for your time in reviewing this idea. It would be wonderful if Turnitin were enabled for Discussions posts and responses. This would prevent students from cobbling together inform...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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It would be great to see more information in the announcement email notifications. At the moment, the formatting and images are all stripped from the notifications. The email notification also does no...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This one has been suggested before, but I'd like to suggest it again: one of the options for setting peer reviews of assignments should be "by student group"--all members of a group are automatically ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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