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For the file upload assignment type, if one uploads a file that does not fit the instructor defined file type restrictions (like a pdf when only doc/docx is accepted) Canvas returns a non-helpful erro...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Items in the grade book are available for sync with SIS. However, sections are not in the sync and individuals are not available for sync. Why not mimic assignments' ability to be allowed to sync with...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Although you can set up a course to include multiple sections and you can even constrain teachers and TAs such that they can only interact with students within their section.  There is no way currentl...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Student View functionality for assignments (especially quizzes) is limited because Test Student only falls under "everyone". You cannot differentiate an assignment to allow Test Student to enter an as...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I am loving the new Reassign feature! It would be great if we could have a "Reassign to Students Who..." option (similar to "Message Students Who" in the gradebook) so that we could reassign to all st...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This Feature Idea is similar to the one submitted by @MalenaM called Canvas Studio Playlist - Instructure Community. Now that Vimeo has been added as another video option for Canvas Studio [Studio Rel...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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A feature added to, or parallel with,  posing hidden grades to post all comments made & saved but not posted themselves would be great.  Post comments in bulk, is what we're getting at.  Its tough to ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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We have accumulated a fairly good amount of terms as we create the terms via SIS.  When going into sub-accounts, we are forced to constantly choose a semester from a lengthy list (and it is only getti...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Currently, admins can create grading schemes at an account level and them have them accessible in all courses. If you create a grading scheme within one of your courses though, it is only available in...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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When a course is linked to a Blueprint course and a change is made on an unlocked item have an additional box come up to confirm the save is desired and will disassociate from the Blueprint course and...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Sometimes I need to message part of a class but not all. The current Mobile App Inbox options allow me to either select the entire class or select each student one at a time to add to the message. Any...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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An issue we are facing is that changing the point value of a question in New Quizzes does not change the value in the assignment settings in Canvas. We have to manually backtrack and adjust the score ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In a 1-1 iPad environment many assignments get completed using Apple Pencils on .pdf documents. Whenever this happens it would be great to have the ability to pass feedback back and forth quickly betw...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Background and problem There was a change to the course availability dates in March 2021. At our university we just now discovered 761 old courses that have their own start date, but no end date. This...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Give us the ability to turn on by default "send individual messages" when sending to more than one student.  The default should be more privacy versus less privacy. 

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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If the Rich Content Editor would be available in the Calendar Scheduler then, using the Microsoft Teams LTI app I would be able to embed a link to a Teams meeting that will be seen by only the student...

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Role: Instructor   Idea: The outcome analysis report currently combines all students in a single instructor's class into one document in the outcome analysis report. It would be helpful for teachers a...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Role: Instructor The outcomes analysis function currently sorts students in alphabetical order by first name. It would be easier for users if it sorted by last name so that schools with incompatible g...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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As a Canvas administrator, I can run a report to see if we have any students or instructors that have bounced e-mail addresses in Canvas following the steps in: How do I view bounced email notificatio...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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It would be great if you could access on the Rich Content Editor tools when adding text into the new Feedback Library, or at the very least have the ability to add a linked URL. Currently URL's aren't...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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