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We would like the ability to have admins be able to drop students from Catalog. Currently, we need to masquerade as the student in Canvas and then go back to Catalog to act as that student. If there w...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We would like the ability to have participants automatically enrolled in Programs once they have paid for the program or enrolled in the Program or once the start date/enroll date hits in Canvas/Catal...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We were made aware that a student or Catalog administrator has the ability to edit a certificate of completion after downloading the PDF from Canvas Catalog then opening the certificate in Adobe Acrob...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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When we delay announcements (say, if we have some left over from the previous offering of the course that we want to reuse but aren't sure when the course starts when it will run so we aren't ready to...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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As we look forward to New Gradbook, I have a teacher asking for a feature.  She's asking for:   "...a little symbol, like a notch in the corner, to show that the teacher has made a comment on the grad...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Please consider the  idea of allowing the instructor to  select  specific question-types from a question bank. At  times when we as faculty may not want to  T/F question-types administered as part of ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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SpeedGrader documentation ( https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-12774-415255021 ) states that only one grader from a course can work in SpeedGrader at a time. Users report that not all grades and...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Currently in the New Gradebook, instructors can set the gradebook so that late penalties are automatically deducted. It is unfortunate that in multiple-attempt quizzes for which only the highest-score...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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  Amended after comments and questions from  @James ‌. TL;DR Instructors should be able to add a module progress barAmendment: Instructors should be able to add a module progress bar that includes the...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We would like to have the ability to be able to export a listing report from Canvas Catalog in the listing portal that lists all of the listings or just one particular listing and its attributes inste...

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Summary This feature idea is twofold:  Fully obey the course participation setting “Restrict students from accessing courses after end date” and do not allow replies to existing inbox messages (even f...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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We would like the ability to sort by visibility in Canvas Catalog listings. The purpose of this is to be able to find out which listing is set to which visibility instead of having a mix of the three ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Hi everyone,   Much like the Listings page in Catalog, see below, we would like to see the same type of link underneath the listing link in the completions tab to go directly to a Canvas course.   Com...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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In Canvas Catalog, we would like the ability to only have an option to choose from when creating a certificate of completion for a listing/course such as pulling images and content from a repository ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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When building rubrics on a course level, it would be helpful to have a duplicate rubric button next to the Edit and Delete options. Some rubrics are very similar and having the ability to duplicate wh...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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At the moment, when using the web browser UI for Canvas, students can see a Calendar for their Course Groups and Account-level groups and events from these calendars are visible to them.   In the Stud...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Hi everyone,   We would like the ability to have a button to delete or swap out by providing an option to upload a new image for each of the following categories: header image, logo image, and favicon...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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In the old Gradebook, you are able to hover over the total grade column and see [number of points earned] / [number of points possible].   In the New Gradebook, you can view the total grades by points...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Assignments that are due at 11:59pm are marked as all-day events in the Calendar Feed and do not have specific start & end times. As a result, these events do not adjust based on timezone. This is esp...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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If you make an error in typing a comment while using a rubric and then save it, there is no way to correct it later. It's possible to save a new, corrected comment, but then you have to check each tim...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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