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This idea applies to the browser interface of Canvas If a section filter is applied in the markbook this filter is also applied to the speed grader. This has caused confusion for many of my teachers, ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We use Canvas to operate an entirely virtual high school with 100+ courses. While each course is unique, some assignment categories are consistent across all courses. For example, each course has a fi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I would like to suggest a way to export TA & instructor information from the People screen in a course.  There are I times I need to enroll the same TA's and /or instructors in another course and it w...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When a class is divided into sections, I hope grade assignments in "To do" will lead to grade the section that is assigned to me, not the entire class.  In other words, students assigned NOT to my sec...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice if instructors could rearrange the columns in the gradebook column by column (without having to drag columns in the gradebook) and without having to group them.  When there are numero...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I've just been using Canvas as a student again (while also working with an instructional designer type role with it, too) and found the Announcements page frustrating. Each announcement only shows the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be great for Admins to be able to reorder the listing of Terms and how they appear in their drop-down list. For example, I want to be able to drag or reorder the list so when I choose them fo...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Our students are submitting assignments on a daily basis in Canvas. It would be really nice if they could filter their grades by the status of assignments such as Missing. Then students would only see...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Studio videos should show on the preview whether or not captions are added. It takes several clicks to open a video to see if there are captions and the current workflow doesn't allow for a systematic...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hello, The screenshot below best shows my idea.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Currently, “Grades", "Comments", and "Files" are in three Tabs. I'd like them to be displayed on the same page, as shown on the right side. "Comments" goes to the middle section, and "Files" goes to t...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In the Speed Grader, when I'm viewing assignments that have multiple files uploaded, there is no indication about which file I'm currently looking at. Please incorporate a marker (title on the viewer ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I'd like to give both faculty and students the option to re-order the items on their To Do list in terms of their personal priority. As an instructor (and I assume a student) we have the option to rem...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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SinceCanvas Deploy Notes (2020-09-23) , the New RCE Links button creates an external link as its default action. It would be better for the default action to open the Course Links tab. External links ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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In order to see assignments with a Missing status, students must click on Grades. Instead, the list of missing assignments should be on their front page. The idea is to have a separate "Missing" assig...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Class nicknames should work in more than just the courses menu on the sidebar.  The official class names are a long string of letters and numbers and it takes a long time to figure out which class is ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The new gradebook is amazing! We love the filtering capabilities! But something has come to my attention. The gradebook defaults to showing grades only for the current grading period UNLESS you go Vie...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Currently, global announcements are sorted by end date, with the longest running announcement at the top. As we kick-off our semester start, we're relying heavily on announcements to communicate infor...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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As the title says, it is becoming more and more essential to have the option as an instructor to select that only graded assignments appear in the grades page (or, even better, choose which assignment...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to set my default gradebook view. For example, I prefer to always use "Module first to last" for each gradebook. In the gradebook settings, I can't set this as my preferred vie...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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