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With assignment enhancements enabled this semester, we repeatedly ran into an issue where students told our support staff and their teachers that they submitted work, even though SpeedGrader did not s...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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This goes along with https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Canvas-Inbox-Messages-Fully-Obey-Course-Participation-Settings/idc-p/459284 Once a course has closed, whether by course dates...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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The Link Validator will check links to deleted content, but it's not usually worth the teacher's time to review errors on these links (especially since the content is deleted and cannot be edited). Th...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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We have been having issues, whereby the course file storage gets full and no warning comes up. Staff automatically assume, it is bug, or the system is not working right. It will be beneficial to have ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When a student has no active courses, the dashboard has a message that reads: "Welcome to Canvas! You don’t have any courses, so this page won’t be very exciting for now. Once you’ve created or signed...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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By default, we do not allow Instructors (Teachers) to add Students to their course, since these course enrollments are populated by our SIS. The problem is that the instructor can add other Roles to t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I'm not sure why push notifications for discussion boards were disabled, but please reenable them.  I'm a student and they were a great way to get notified when there was a new post, or response.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In speedgrader, if you click on the trash icon next to an annotation, you get a modal that asks "Are you shure you want to delete..." with options Cancel/OK. OK is highlighted as the default choice. B...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When a new conference is created in a course students are sent a content update notification. The link in the notification goes to the conferences url in the course. At this point students are redirec...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I've been writing make-up exams for several specific students recently, and I get this pop-up every time I change something in the quiz.

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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 Afeature notifying users that have either downloaded a course or favorited one that an update has been made to it.  maybe a push notification of the option to push update or an actual push of new con...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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If an instructor links a rubric to an assignment, enters data in the rubric in the speedgrader, and then un-links the rubric from that assignment, all data entered in the rubric will permanently lost ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Please include Eportfolio Moderation additions in administrative notifications, or create a separate administrative notification for Eportfolio Moderation additions. The notification would also be sub...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Hi everyone,   We have a student who has received a completion certificate for completing multiple courses in Canvas Catalog. However, the only way to get the certificate and to have the unofficial tr...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Create automatic link to assignment you are referring to in "message students who".... It would be great if a link to the assignment you are referring to is part of the "message students who" featur...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The Problem: If students submit to a group assignment that does not have an associated group set, those submissions appear as individual submission rather than group submissions. Because this causes n...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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If your institution opts to have a log-out period for security/privacy reasons there is currently no log-out session warning due to inactivity. This means that when a user is in the Canvas system, the...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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When importing course content, it would be great to see the detailed list of:   What items were imported if the user used the option "Select Migration Content"Who Initiated the importWhether it was th...

Instructure Canvas Ideas
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