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Problem statement: Sometimes, assignments are created that are: a) Due at midnight (rather than 11:59 pm) b) Due at inconvenient times (such as 6am) c) Have no shown due date. This gives students ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Learners want to be able to interact with their learning and get feedback while they are working through content, rather than having to go into separate formative or summative quiz....

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Problem statement: Students have identified that the To-Do List on the side menu shows all tasks and notifications, until you manually remove one by clicking the cross or it removes itself when a task...

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Problem statement: Instructors cannot set up module requirements in a course in a way that allows students to choose which topics they wish to complete if they do not need to complete them all. This c...

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Problem statement: It would be helpful if there was a way the self-enrollment link could be automatically turned off on a specific date/time within a Canvas course, instead of having to manually disab...

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Problem statement: Students do not always complete the course during the set term dates. Many schools have different policies on letting students finish a course past the term date. there is no easy w...

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Problem statement: My use case is that we have a program w/ multiple courses… over 20 and our students see them in a card view dashboard. It is a rolling enrollment, so there aren’t specific dates thi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: As a student, I would like to log into Canvas and view my course progress on the course card. Proposed solution: Pulling from course requirements or the gradebook, this information...

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Problem statement: Most of our courses include synchronous (often face-to-face) workshops or events, around which the timing of Canvas content is based. For example, students are expected to complete ...

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Problem statement: Our students often navigate to the To Do list in Canvas. When they hit show more, they are presented with the List View. Many then adopt this view as a way to manage coursework. How...

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Problem statement: Having optional work is challenging to manage. Students can be assigned work as a whole, based on their needs according to the Mastery Path, or if a teacher knows that specific stud...

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Problem statement: One of the coolest recent features I feel that Studio has adopted to enhance its learning value is for the instructor to add annotations to the timeline. These can be used to hyperl...

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Please consider providing the option to assign a student to "peer assess" their own submission.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I want students to work from the Modules and complete work in the order on the Module.  This ensures student learning progresses in a sound pedagogical order.  The student To Do list completely sabota...

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This is a feature that I was expecting to find in Canvas because I have used it in D2L Brightspace. A checklist is something that is added to a module and created by the instructor. Here's an article ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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      Idea open for vote Wed. November 2, 2016 - Wed. February 1, 2017  Learn more about voting...   As a Canvas Admin, I would like to enable students to view their courses for a specified period ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Our nursing and OTA staff are using self-assessments to help students evaluate their confidence in the skills they are learning for certification. The idea is that they can take this assessment and ch...

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Assume the case where modules are organized by unit content, so there are many assignments and other content items in a given module.   Module X: Content PageAssignment AContent PageAssignment B *Assi...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  Similar to the Module Setting for Quiz objects of "Score at least..." x points before that requirement is met, please add "Submit at least x [number of] forum posts" for Discussion objects. In my co...

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