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It would be very useful to widen the containers in Assignment Edit so that the times in Available From and Until are presented in full. We have lots of minute specific end times and seeing them in the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When I start to correct a new discussion in general I have no need for many of my previous discussion library comments. I would like to efficiently delete discussion comments that are no longer applic...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When specifying the due dates for an assignment, a skip by year, as well as a skip by month function in the calendar would be useful. At my institution, the previous year's Canvas course is copied for...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same need, please feel free to comment. We'd love to hear your thoughts. Multilingual course configuratio...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same need, please feel free to comment. We'd love to hear your thoughts. Custom "From" name should also b...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same need, please feel free to comment. We'd love to hear your thoughts. Rubrics, Quizzes, Outcomes and G...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same need, please feel free to comment. We'd love to hear your thoughts. Gradebook, grading schemes and d...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same need, please feel free to comment. We'd love to hear your thoughts. The name of the course changes d...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would love it if notifications of discussion board posts would say who made the post. I use this in a small class, and this feature would let me loosely keep tabs on who is participating without hav...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same need, please feel free to comment. We'd love to hear your thoughts.   Structured content by language...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same need, please feel free to comment. We'd love to hear your thoughts. Titles of activities or pages in...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hi Canvas Community!   We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same need, please feel free to comment. We'd love to hear your thoughts. The name and description of L...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We have students who audit a course. We don't want them and the teacher to know they don't have to do the assignment, but if a student chooses to do it, they can.  Excusing assignments shows the teach...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We would like the default email notification setting for “Content Updates” and “Files” to be off, so that students would intentionally opt in per course if they would like these updates. Some example ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When you create an assignment or quiz in Canvas, all dates (available, due, and until dates) are null.  If published in this state, the item has no dates listed anywhere and is always available for st...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently you can only search Announcements and find a match if the Announcement title includes the search word. Please add the ability to Search that will pull up announcements that contain the word ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Adding a field to the accounts.csv file for a template course would be *very* helpful, particularly large school divisions that handle settings for all subaccounts (schools) centrally. I would like to...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In New Quizzes, when you upload/embed an image as part of a question, it renames the file.  For example, I had embedded a picture of Olaf from the movie "Frozen" into a question.  The original file na...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Recently I learned that filtering the display in the Grades tool by section also applies the same section filter in the SpeedGrader. This is not intuitive at all and makes for a bad user experience. T...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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tl;dr When migrating Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes, any files attached to quiz questions get renamed.  Attached file names should not be renamed during migration. More Context I recently migrated a C...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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