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I just created a new Sub-Account, under my root, Yay!, and now I want to use a specific Permissions configuration from another sub-account... Ooops, there is no way to export a sub-account Permissions...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to move multiple videos at time from my global studio into a collection.    Use Case: We have an American Sign Language course with TONS of videos. We migrated to Canvas in 201...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I love the new student annotation feature, however the students are only able to annotate using the keyboard and mouse/touchpad. We would love for students to be able to use their finger to draw on th...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I love the new Student Annotation feature; there are so many applications for student use! However, there is no way for students to revise that assignment (which really seems to be an issue for ALL as...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hello! This is a student here with a small suggestion to add tooltips for the row of icons on the top of the Dashboard in ListView. This would be a small improvement but would allow the icons to be mo...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently, files uploaded to Modules cannot have added instructions or comments associated with them.  Please add this feature (i.e. please ass the rich content editor to each item one enters into Mod...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We have had several faculty request the ability to set up an Assignment or Discussion or Quiz to award points for ANY SUBMISSION.  So the student would get a 0 for no submission and full points for an...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Finding and optionally replacing a string is an important editing function. Currently the Canvas Rich Content Editor does not have a string matching and replacement capability. String  matching is an ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Currently, the process for re-ordering Catalog Listings is limited and very time-consuming and cumbersome, particularly if there are hundreds of listings to manage.  This feature request is to improve...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi, We would like to have the ability to have the year shown for the start and end date on the course card for Canvas Catalog. As you can see the start and end date years are shown in Canvas at the co...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We in are in K-12 environment where all our grade weighting groups are standardized for all courses. All of our classes use the Assignment Groups "Major", "Minor", and "Class Participation" and all ha...

Community Explorer 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)  The New User Tutori...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It appears that default course sections don't receive SIS IDs when a course is created. If this is true, then this means that during standard operation, a Canvas instance will start to accumulate mult...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I have a teacher with a suggestion that I want to share on her behalf: On the Dashboard, have items listed in the To Do list color-coded so they match the course color and calendar....

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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For a native Canvas assignment, can a feature be added that allows users to view the similarity scores for all submissions combined in a single list?  Currently the only options to view these are in S...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We would like to see a native course evaluations tool in Canvas out of the box beyond that of a simple Canvas survey.  There are many external tools that can be connected to Canvas for this purpose, b...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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  Is it possible to reorder the Due Date, Available Until, & Module? It seems like students get confused by reading the Available Until date first and Due Date last? Also, is there anyway to BOLD the ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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There have now been countless times that I have lost work in the new quizzes editor because I navigated away and forgot to save. My hair is turning grey from this. Please display a warning box when th...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Now that flex and grid properties are available for use (Canvas Deploy Notes (2021-07-07) ) in the HTML editor, could we also add the alignment properties to the allow list? They are being stripped ou...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I usually don't know how many points a quiz will be worth before I make it. Classic Quizzes would just use the number of the points from the questions, but with New Quizzes it just stays at zero unles...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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