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I'd like to suggest that assignments with the anonymous grading option enabled should continue to hide/anonymize student names in SpeedGrader after posting an assignment's grades. The current behavior...

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It would be awesome if you could select what authentication position you wanted to route traffic from the parent app to.  For example, we use a SAML authentication against our school's Gsuite accounts...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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There are many requests for Text to Speech for Accessibility in Canvas, but the reverse is needed as well.  We have found that students can use Speech to Text on Text Entry Assignment submissions usin...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice if instructors could rearrange the columns in the gradebook column by column (without having to drag columns in the gradebook) and without having to group them.  When there are numero...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to have required, but non-graded/evaluated responses in quizzes. For example, I like to use quizzes as exit-tickets or quick check-for-understandings where I ask a content specific qu...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In Recent Activity View, observer accounts are not able to see Announcements. This is a key feature to send out course information, and for K-12 parents who are enrolled in a lot of courses as observe...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Currently, if your institution has a theme style sheet, the styles are not viewable/applied in the Rich Content Editor while in Edit mode.  Only upon saving are you able to see styles applied from the...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Ever more we are seeing quality in design being an issue for accreditation.  Let's face it, the ability for an institution to have a common look and feel from course to course is a problem.  Content i...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It would be very helpful if the "+" buttons for adding items into modules and other things stayed on the page with me as I scrolled down the page. Some of my modules get lengthy and to have to scroll ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In our school district we have been utilizing the TCC (thin common cartridges) for each of the textbooks.  Teachers load these entire textbooks into their course and when they go to the gradebook, bec...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I've just been using Canvas as a student again (while also working with an instructional designer type role with it, too) and found the Announcements page frustrating. Each announcement only shows the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be great for Admins to be able to reorder the listing of Terms and how they appear in their drop-down list. For example, I want to be able to drag or reorder the list so when I choose them fo...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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For essay questions in New Quizzes it appears the browser spell check is disabled by default.  It would be great if this were also possible to disable the spell check for fill in the blank questions. ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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At least for admins, it would be helpful to see who created an assignment. There are often several instructuctors in one course.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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We have many different instructors/teachers in one course. It would be helpful if assignments are linked to one specific instructor, or several specific instructors. This way, only the relevant instru...

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Sometimes a student accidentally uploads the wrong file. Instead of resubmitting a new file, and thus having submitted two files, it would be better to be able to delete your submission!

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When the course code is identical to the course name, would it be possible to just use one course name, instead of distinguishing between long name and short name (i.e. course code)? Having this disti...

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Our students are submitting assignments on a daily basis in Canvas. It would be really nice if they could filter their grades by the status of assignments such as Missing. Then students would only see...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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For basic skills and ESL students, uploading files is a barrier in and of itself. They can do text entry; teachers need to be able to annotate writing line by line. Add annotations to text entry boxes...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In Canvas inbox we should be able to click on a student's name (the sender) and be navigated directly to the info on that student (gradebook, etc.). This should also go for the course (course page). T...

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