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Currently on the announcement page of a course if an instructor wants to bulk delete announcements they must check the box next to each announcement before they can click delete button. Additionally, ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Summary The File Object currently contains a number of attributes for each file in a Canvas Course such as "display_name", "size" and "content-type". This idea is to add attributes to the file object ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Non-scoring rubrics were introduced to Canvas on July 14, 2018.  When a non-scoring rubric is used in the SpeedGrader for grading (assuming there are only three values to choose from...such as Full Ma...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We have recently discovered that all of the information in  Canvas UI -> Admin -> Admin Tools -> Logging in Canvas data is only retained for one calendar year.This information is imperitive to our in...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Please include all data from Quizzes.Next into Canvas data just like the "legacy" Quiz tool.  Having this information is very important to our institution and the fact that this wasn't a part of the g...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to be able to format the content in the "Rating Description" box. For example, a lot of my school's rubrics are holistic, requiring us to break down each level into multiple facets. B...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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When first opening the course or people admin search tool, the message displayed is "No courses found" / "No users found". Depending on how long these pages take to load, the user may be under the imp...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I know there are several good ideas about improving the HTML editor including making it easier to read the HTML. I think one thing that would be beneficial is to have my cursor remain on the same spot...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Please add a notification option (preferably turned on by default) that sends a reminder notification 24 hours before a quiz or an assignment is due, to any student who has not already submitted it.  ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hello all! I am a student, and I am here to suggest an idea that I thought would make Canvas more personalized. I think a dark theme would be great for Canvas since some students like to stay up at ni...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Our university receives role names from our SIS, and we've created corresponding custom roles in Canvas. This gives members of a course an accurate idea of everyone's roles. For example, it's importan...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Hi, we want to add a link to all places that we import to the calendar to give student a map location for the place field in the calendar object. It is not very easy when the field does not support HT...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Allow users to #self-enroll in a Canvas course via the secret URL into a specific #section within that course. Doing so would remove the need to manually move/assign sections to each user.   Basicall...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Hello everyone!   I have been working with faculty to create mobile friendly content pages.  While most often pages will look okay on mobile devices, I often have to explain why some content such as t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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The wonderful New Course Search in Canvas Production Release 2018-03-10 unfortunately removes the option to sort listings of courses based on course creation date.  Admins regularly need to work with ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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The new course/people search is pretty nice, however, it still does not show you if a course/section have been combined. It would be nice if there was some indicator of this.   When you combine/crossl...

Community Coach 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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We have heard a few requests from instructors to get an export or printing function built into the Speedgrader that will allow them to print their annotated comments, similar to how track changes can ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Many times, we write quizzes that get progressively more difficult. I would love a feature where students can get grades as they go on a quiz. In other words, they can submit their answer for question...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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@people list is alphabetical by last names, which is not helpful. Please add sorting function by "First Name", "Section", "last Activity" and "Total Activity". All other tabular lists should be sort-a...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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