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Hello, Sometimes we may have typos in a quiz and because of that, or other reasons, we need to add extra time for everyone while the quiz is in progress. So far this cannot be done since the due date/...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2023-10-21)  I created a series ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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To increase Catalog Completions for self-paced courses and other Catalog listed courses, we would like Catalog to have an option to email automatic reminders to enrolled users that have not "completed...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently, as an instructor, after we make changes on an assignment page and hit save, we can't recover it. That would be interesting to have access to either a history of edits (version control?) or ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We have students taking upwards of 12-13 courses in a trimester. That can be a considerable amount of assignments, quizzes and discussions. It's my understanding that the To Do list only shows 7 items...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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At the moment, in students' to-do list in Canvas, all assignment types, including quizzes, show the due date. This makes sense for most assignment types, but for quizzes, where the due date indicates ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Adding the "grade" column and or completion checkmark to the course summary screen that is embedded on the syllabus would allow students to quickly see what assignments they have already completed whe...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hi everyone,   On 6/20/20, a new feature will be pushed out to Canvas Catalog to be able to sync Canvas enrollments with Canvas Catalog. We would like to be able to enhance this feature by having refu...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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On 6/20/20, a new feature will be pushed out to Canvas Catalog to be able to restrict enrollments by Catalog and Subcatalog. We would like the ability to have this feature be pushed out for Canvas Cat...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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As an instructor, I have students post discussion questions and responses each week. If they posted something, they get the points. However, there is no way to automatically grade these-- I have to ma...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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To adjust differentiated due dates and other settings with New Quizzes, it is not easy to navigate to the "More Options" page. From within the Quiz Builder, you must return to Canvas and the Assignmen...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Right now to edit an assignment in a Portfolium course, you have to select the check box to reveal a set of option toward the top right. I always catch myself selecting the assignment title instead. P...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Right now faculty have to be invited to the Canvas Portfolium Outcome / Educator Tools area by an administrator and/or create their very first Portfolium assignment before they gain access to this too...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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A dedicated Portfolium Pathway LTI would be nice to have that automatically enrolls students who launch from Canvas. I could see an administrator create one for each program that would allow SSO into ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Right now there is not a way for an administrator to disable the use of a rubric. If there are curriculum changes, both the new and old rubric are available for faculty. administrators cannot disable ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When faculty assign a Portfolium Assignment using the LTI Canvas integration, students are only added to the roster when they launch a Portfolium assignment from Canvas.   This is problematic because ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Using a rubric to grade in Canvas can be an exercise in frustration. Even the official documentation (How do I use a rubric to grade submissions in SpeedGrader?) starts by having you resize the parts ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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There is a problem when you export the grades of the gradebook to a csv file. It has to do with the decimal numbers (the comma or the point as decimal symbol). (I am not talking about the separator wi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When designing a quiz, at the moment we can have either all questions on one page or one question at a time.   It would be useful to group questions together so that different questions appear on diff...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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By "universal" I mean to not limit instructor comments to one specific course.   If I create/use a Studio video I want to use in more than one course and I add comments for students to reply to (e.g. ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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