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We have recently started adding additional e-learning content to our courses in the form of SCORM packages (created and published using Articulate Rise). While these work beautifully on Canvas as view...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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On the old quiz format, if you went to a student's activity log during or after the quiz, you can see when the student "exited" or clicked out of the quiz. This was a very useful feature to keep stude...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The root account has an option Let sub-accounts use the Theme Editor to customise their own branding. This option applies to the entire institution.   It would be good if this option was available a...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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What I want to be able to do is attach questions to a stimulus, then create an item bank of the stimuli with the associated questions fixed to each specific stimuli, to randomise the questions. This f...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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When creating modules for a K-5 environment or even a UDL design of a module it is best practice for a designer to chunk the data into small amounts of data on each "page" of the module.  Also, a UDL ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Grading and replying to forum posts would be more efficient if both could be done from Speedgrader, instead of grading in Speedgrader and moving back to the Discussion (and finding the student's post)...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hi,   In the Admin Settings area in Canvas or/at the subaccount-level, we would like the ability to toggle between having the choice to have Canvas courses listed on the Dashboard that are associated ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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The People list in the admin area of an account or subaccount shows Name, Email, SIS ID and Last Login.The Last Login field shows the date of the last time a user actually carried out a login, but as,...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice, especially for support staff, if we could search on name fields and partial email addresses in the enroll dialogue.  This way if we know the person's name but not their exact user id...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I would like to have the option to remove or hide points from assignments.   This would help draw the focus towards formative comments.  The majority of assignments at our school are graded complete/i...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I enjoy the fact that canvas is making their own video quiz option. However, I have been unable to take advantage of it because there is no open-ended question option. I like to have my students answe...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In modules I indent assignments that build off of each other. I recently learned that this does not lock the assignment until the above has been completed. The only way to do this is through the "must...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I strongly suggest that Canvas return to (what I think was) the default of 1) having a Canvas multiple choice quiz question include 5 answer choices; and 2) have Canvas use the current number of choic...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi,   We would like the ability for root Canvas Catalog Administrators and Subcatalog Administrators to manually enroll students from the Canvas Catalog waitlist into Canvas Catalog courses.   A depar...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I would like to prevent students from fast forwarding the canvas studio quiz videos.  Please allow teachers to use a toggle button to disable fast forward. Edpuzzle offers this "prevent skipping" feat...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Many schools' academic policies are defined so that student grades are reduced based on weeks For example, our current academic policy is that students will receive a score reduction of -10% if it is ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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For  schools that do not have the resources to use Canvas Data:    Help Canvas administrators assess usage of Classic Quizzes during the transition to New Quizzes by adding a reporting tool to "school...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Canvas creates a default assignment group called "assignments". If an instructor is not using weighted groups or does not have another need for the "assignments" group, the instructor would like to om...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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My request is to restructure the Discussion Forum to act more like a Classroom Discussion so that both Student and Instructor do no have to do the "Scroll of Death" to be part "in" the Discussion.   I...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I'm not sure if there is already a way to do this but it would be nice if the last page of the module instead of saying "Next" and going to a new module it said "Home" and took you back to the home pa...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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