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Getting to a course calendar from a course is a small link and makes it feel as though course calendars are a lower-importance, de-prioritized part of Canvas. A way to help this would be to make it ea...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I was disappointed to see that the "Text Headers" that you can add to modules are just spans, they aren't a heading tag. It would improve accessibility if these were heading tags There is "<h2 class="...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Could you please include a smaller font size option for the free text annotations in Speedgrader. The smallest font size option is too large.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When in "student view" of a Canvas course I have the option to select the calendar associated with this course via the following selection:             But a similar option is not available when I vi...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Feature Request: Add in the ability for teachers to duplicate a New Quiz when they are working in the Modules tab. For assignments, pages, etc. a teacher can duplicate them when working in the Modules...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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at my university, we have a faculty lead model. the lead faculty creates the course in canvas and adds the teaching faculty members to the course so they can import the content into their section. onc...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to import course categories when doing course import.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Please allow the option to import course card when importing a course.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This year we have been experiencing an error message for many instructors that may have mistakenly given the wrong student a grade and then remove it. When the instructors go to sync, they get a vague...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Request:Show Local and Course times in a Canvas course's Settings > Course Details tab > Participation area when a user's account's time zone is different than their course's time zone (to have featur...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Using the Canvas for Elementary view, students can see if something is due today both on the Subject cards and in the Schedule tab.  Feature request is to make the Schedule tab operational for teacher...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I would like to suggest that Canvas change the wording of this error message: "Are you sure you want to DELETE this rubric?" to "Are you sure you want to REMOVE this rubric?" Recently, I attached the ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Based on behavior, our faculty can summarily remove a student from class for the day of removal and the next class meeting. The law that allows this was of course written without the online classroo...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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When navigating to Grade Sync in our Canvas Instance, a relatively new message states, "Nightly Grade Sync scheduled at 6:00 PM". This message appears in the first tab you see (History). Our users are...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The tabs solution does not work in global announcements, regardless of the discussions redesign feature preview being on or off. At our university we need to send global announcements in two languages...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We're from Crystal Delta solutions, partners of Canvas instructure. We do have Loree LTI in Canvas which will make designer life easier to design a page without HTML/CSS knowledge. We used to load the...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Hi, We would like to be able to prevent certain file types/extensions from being uploaded to the Files area of Canvas.  It would be great if we could have some kind of admin control at the account/sub...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Currently, when weighting grading periods, we are only able to use the All Grading Periods label to view our weighted grading periods totals. Since our SIS, PowerSchool, creates S1 & S2 grading period...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We'd like instructors to have the ability to turn off gradebook access to people of certain roles in a course. Alternately, we'd like to be able to turn off gradebook access within a custom role. The ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I am an instructor. I have added the Canvas Calendar feed to my Outlook Calendar and it is now included under "Other Calendars". The appointments in the Canvas Calendar are booked by students using th...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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