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People>Groups not available in the phone app. I really could use this feature. Canvas web pages, I find, don't optimize well on mobile browsers, at least not on Droid phones.  On the phone app, there'...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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As a Catalog Admin, it would be beneficial to receive a notification when a student drops a course in Catalog since we have no control over this option.  It would also be beneficial for the Catalog us...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Summary The File Object currently contains a number of attributes for each file in a Canvas Course such as "display_name", "size" and "content-type". This idea is to add attributes to the file object ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Non-scoring rubrics were introduced to Canvas on July 14, 2018.  When a non-scoring rubric is used in the SpeedGrader for grading (assuming there are only three values to choose from...such as Full Ma...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We have recently discovered that all of the information in  Canvas UI -> Admin -> Admin Tools -> Logging in Canvas data is only retained for one calendar year.This information is imperitive to our in...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Please include all data from Quizzes.Next into Canvas data just like the "legacy" Quiz tool.  Having this information is very important to our institution and the fact that this wasn't a part of the g...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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We would like administrators to be able to be notified when new promotions for Canvas Catalog are created.    To make this happen a notifications tab will be needed in the admin portal and a pop-up me...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to be able to format the content in the "Rating Description" box. For example, a lot of my school's rubrics are holistic, requiring us to break down each level into multiple facets. B...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Hi everyone,   We would like the ability to have refunds appear in the Canvas Catalog Analytics tab for the purpose of accurate revenue. What I mean by this is just adding in the negative amounts of t...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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At the University of Wisconsin - Madison, we frequently have courses with over 500 students. With those numbers, we frequently get two students with the same name. When you're working in the gradebook...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Hi everyone, We have had multiple requests for this feature by multiple departments on campus. We would like a way to have a single point of contact at an organization/department that can register for...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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I use my browser Canvas to create content, but I rely on the Teacher app to access the content for my courses when I'm in the classroom or otherwise away from my desk.  The Canvas features I need most...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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When first opening the course or people admin search tool, the message displayed is "No courses found" / "No users found". Depending on how long these pages take to load, the user may be under the imp...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I know there are several good ideas about improving the HTML editor including making it easier to read the HTML. I think one thing that would be beneficial is to have my cursor remain on the same spot...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Please add a notification option (preferably turned on by default) that sends a reminder notification 24 hours before a quiz or an assignment is due, to any student who has not already submitted it.  ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hello all! I am a student, and I am here to suggest an idea that I thought would make Canvas more personalized. I think a dark theme would be great for Canvas since some students like to stay up at ni...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Our university receives role names from our SIS, and we've created corresponding custom roles in Canvas. This gives members of a course an accurate idea of everyone's roles. For example, it's importan...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We want the ability to initiate the process for creating multiple payment gateway(s) for Canvas Catalog for sub-catalogs. Currently, only Instructure staff can only activate this process. Most recentl...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Hi, we want to add a link to all places that we import to the calendar to give student a map location for the place field in the calendar object. It is not very easy when the field does not support HT...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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We would like administrators to be able to be notified when new course listings for Canvas Catalog are created.    To make this happen a notifications tab will be needed in the admin portal and a pop-...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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