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We would like to see in the New Quizzes for the Stimulus question the ability to upload a file and preview that file so students can read the PDF while answering the questions.  I have several teacher...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Many of our fully-online courses (particularly in science and math) require that students draw a diagram or process in their assessments, and when combined with proctoring tools, this becomes a compli...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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A feature in Hot Spot that would really benefit our students is the ability to have multiple hot spots in a single image. Eg: English students being able to go an image of text and identifying multipl...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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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 Enhanced Rubrics: Release Change Log  It would be grea...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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When grading papers or other file uploads from students, the ability to use formatted text in the annotation tools would be really helpful. For example, if a student is not formatting citations proper...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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With the new "Color Overlay" feature for course card images in this weeks Beta Release Notes, I think there should be a way to set the default behavior at an account level (edit: not subaccount level,...

Community Coach 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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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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  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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This idea is based on extending the Formula Question type to allow for multiple answers to be entered by students.   Currently, the Formula question type is fine for simple calculated answer questions...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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It would be very helpful if you could insert "Back" and "Next" buttons at the top of module item pages. This would eliminate the need to scroll down through long pages in order to move to the next mod...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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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)  With the way that m...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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For assignments that are setup for peer review, it would be useful to have two different due dates: One for the students initial submission that will be reviewed by their peersA second one for complet...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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