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Currently, if there is an issue with a peer review, I cannot assign a second peer review for the same student. The student assigned initially does not show in the drop down box for reassignment

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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If you select a comment from your comment library and then want to add another comment from the comment library, the first one is deleted.  It would be helpful to be able to layer comments. Our facult...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Students who are not used to our regular courses often have a hard time finding their way back when they have logged out. We would like a "Sign in" button on the course detail page for already registe...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Our district has a new policy where missing work gets a 50% F, but we can't enter the grade until two weeks after the due date.  The gradebook will already post a specified grade for missing assignmen...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Wish list for the upcoming Certificate of Completion Improvments Wysiwyg editor for Certificate To create a Certificate in line with our organization's graphic profile it is a lot of coding and ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Sent and received emails often have common themes and so for improved efficiency and productivity these emails should be organized into email folders with self-documenting titles.  Currently the Canva...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Every time that I receive or send a message I need to first identify the course. The label associated with a course that has several sections are all the same even though I assign distinctive nickname...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Using "Enter Grades as" I deliberately specified that Gradebook scores be displayed as percentages. But exported Excel csv file has the grades in their original raw data format. My grading process req...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Every item in a canvas course has a "Previous" and a "Next" except for the last item in a course which does not have a "Next". SpeedGrader should behave similarly. When the Speedgrader setting is disp...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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The course summary in the Syllabus page displays dated assignments in chronological order at the top, followed by undated assignments in alphabetical order. This can be very confusing and hard to navi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The comment library feature is being used by faculty at my institution; however, as the number of comments continue to increase in the library, managing them becomes more difficult with no way of grou...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When I'm using the Rich Content Editor and inserting a hyperlink, I'd like to be able to link to the "Outcomes" area of the course. But while the other course areas (e.g., "Home", "Announcements", "Sy...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently, if a student tries to access a module that is not published, they get a message that says, "This page is part of the module [insert module name here] and hasn't been unlocked yet." This con...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When an online submission assignment is created, and "file upload" is chosen, our district has 10 options for submitting a file (because of some additional apps we have installed). This is very overwh...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We now have the incredibly useful 'Launch SpeedGrader Filtered by Student Group' course setting. This is useful for splitting up grading of paper in SpeedGrader based on group, e.g for different grade...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Canvas parent app inbox messages are retained with no way to delete in-app.  The only way to delete dated/unwanted inbox messages is to log in as a parent via browser, delete the messages, then reset ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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To properly modify assignments and quizzes multiple versions must be created. This can cause issues in grading particularly when your instance is synced via an SIS. Why not have the ability to merge a...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Currently, faculty must move students individually from group to group in the Canvas Groups area. When moving students from one group to another, each student must be dragged from one group and droppe...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Our faculty use the Canvas Calendar Appointment Group tool, which allows students to sign up for appointments with faculty. The tool allows faculty to schedule meetings based on dates and time ranges ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When building rubrics, it could be very valuable to be able to include hyperlinks or basic formatting to criterion details and rating descriptions. It would make the feedback/feedforward loop much mor...

Community Team Canvas Ideas
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