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Problem statement: Currently, when a user account is suspended, the only visual indicator I am aware of is on the Admin view of the user account page, where red exclamation mark appears within in a re...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students often do not realize there is a way to view their current grades from the Dashboard. The To Do list pushes the View Grades button too far down for them to clearly see it. I...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Due to state testing requirements students can not have access to editing options we would like to have that environment replicated for students in Canvas. Having a toggle option av...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In Speedgrader, the sections drop-down displays in order of creation. This leads to an inconsistent user experience and can make it difficult for teachers to find the appropriate se...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: On a Page, I would expect that inserting a hyperlink to a course image would do just that: create a hyperlink that, if clicked on, would open up the image in a new window. Instead, ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: You can't see which assignments have rubrics unless you go into a student view of the gradebook Proposed solution: Add rubric indicators to the assignment list under Assignments an...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Wasted screen space on Gradebook view Inefficient / excessive steps to select Section in Gradebook view Proposed solution: Allow option to deselect current permanent view of "Stude...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Problem: Currently, assignments have to be assigned to student sets (e.g., everyone, section, groups, etc.) individually. When a course is imported from the previous year into the c...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It is so frustrating that when I remove an assignment from a Module, it doesn't just go away. Instead, it goes into Purgatory in the Assignments page. Sometimes I just want to get r...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When duplicating an assignment/quiz, I would like to be able to have the option to copy over multiple due dates that are assigned to original assignment/quiz. Proposed solution: Fo...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When sharing a resource to Canvas Commons, there is a required description text field where the person sharing the resource can provide information about that resource. The text box...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: One of the notes made in the "how do I automatically assign peer reviews" instructor guide states: "If a student has not submitted the assignment or submits the assignment after the...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We offer some units of study where guest lecturers/tutors teach only one topic within a course. These tutors may then be required to grade a related assessment and do not need to se...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently if you share a Canvas Studio with someone else, the quiz will not move with them. At my institution, this is a problem because more than one person edits a course. In addi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Events created on an Account Calendar show up on the calendar itself but do not appear on the dashboard under "Coming Up". We would like to have important dates, like Registration D...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Can we make Collaborations visible and easy to access for students in courses with Elementary Themes? I can add it as a link in the Resources Tab, but a button or a more obvious lin...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Idea is currently in development Problem statement: When instructors create or edit an assignment and enable file uploads, they have the option to restrict the file type. Below the text box where th...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, any user can be a purchaser for bulk enrollments. Unfortunately, we have use cases where the admin does the purchasing. And there's no functionality that allows multiple ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: As an instructor, currently there is no way to download the peer reviews for the peer-reviewed assignments. Proposed solution: For each peer-reviewed assignment, allow download of ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Please go back to the old way of allowing cross-listed classes to be viewed separately in the gradebook. When I first started using Canvas (during COVID), I could cross-list my clas...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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