Problem statement: Numeric quiz questions allow one to choose "Precise response" and then choose "Decimal places" or "Significant figures" for the answer. Formula quiz questions allow one to chose "De...

Problem statement: In Canvas it is not possible to include dynamic variables in multiple choice questions (or any other question type besides Formula). The use of dynamic variables would allow instruc...

Problem statement: When a change has to be made to a New Quiz to correct an error, it is useful to identify which students have already completed the assignment before the correction. For example, if ...

Problem statement: The formula-based questions are an essential tool for math based courses, but there is a big limiting factor. Formula questions work on a set of defined variables input by the teach...

Problem statement: Formula questions currently are either right or wrong. Partial credit should be able to be awarded if students have gone some way to answering the question. For example: A kettle ra...

Should be able to choose which week you want to view rather than having to scroll through!

I would love a way that when you look at all the modules for each week there could be a check mark or a change in color for in the module is already done so I don't have to go back in a look each time...

Canvas is an awesome LMS. With this suggestion post, we would like to ask Instructor to consider a sequential visibility setting that allows modules to be visible by current week automatically. This w...

This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through theCanvas Release Notes (2023-10-21)  It would be great fo...

Give us the ability to turn on by default "send individual messages" when sending to more than one student.  The default should be more privacy versus less privacy. 

Occasionally our support center deletes users or courses with usernames or SIS IDs that need to be reactivated, either by restoring a deleted object or by changing the SIS ID on the deleted object so ...

Home pages are often set with information that is essential on the first day of class, but that students do not need to review every time they visit the course.  Meanwhile, getting students to move on...

It's possible to make a module appear for students after they meet requirements (e.g. submit an assignment in a different module). This suggestion is to also allow modules to be hidden after requireme...

I am preparing to write Quizzes for my future stats students in canvas. In order for this to work I am in need of a few more standard functions in the library for Formula questions: cdf functions for ...

This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2025-01-18)  Our district has a ...

Emojis are only built into Canvas' Chat, but not in discussions.It would be really useful to have such a major feature integrated into discussions through a button in the text editor.Most people don't...

Hot Spot is a great question type if you want students to identify a SINGLE point on an image. It would be great if there was an Question Type that allowed you to label an image. It could operate like...

This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2025-01-18)  New Quizzes reports...

Idea is currently in development Idea:  Include an option to view discussion posts alphabetically by the student's names. Ideally it's set to the same order as the course's SpeedGrader and/or Gradeb...

It would be great if there were a way for students to preview the assignments in a module.  My students will turn in blank assignments so that they can access the next module to see what's comping.