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We use Canvas for all of our classes, and also for parent communication. We have a "Week at a Glance" page that contains information and reminders for the upcoming week. The notification that is sent ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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If it's possible it would be great to have the ability to resubmit or extend time on a submitted quiz, so not the subsequent quiz attempt. This would reflect a quiz, mid-term or final, that may extend...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In the RCE faculty can upload video files in the Upload Media tool without also adding the VTT (caption) file.  It is NOT that faculty do not know how to do this, they choose not to. The act of adding...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When an instructor creates a group project and students start submitting, the To-Do area shows that the instructor needs to grade X number of submissions based off the number of students represented i...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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The course search filter is pretty basic.  It seems as though the search filters were rushed and need to be re-thought.  My suggestions are below..  I hope others also agree and comment. 0. Right now,...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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With New Analytics, teachers can view the number of students who visited a page/item (as well as a total number of visits). They can also select a student to see the specific pages/items that student ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We've been informed of the (relatively) new addition of the declared_user_type field to users.csv (https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.sis_csv.html). We assume it's thus possible  to supply va...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I am looking for the grade display setting in the gradebook to apply to Speedgrader as well.    I give a weekly vocabulary quiz that is out of 55 points, but need to manually calculate student percent...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We have many folks who import quizzes via external tools or copy from other sites.  Having a creation/revision timestamp displayed next to the name could help folks identify a quiz after they import o...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be great to have a button to post a comment from this window- attached.   

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Feature Idea: Pull how long each student took on their quiz attempt in a list, either via the student analysis report or by some other means (e.g. New Analytics). Reasoning: Getting assessments develo...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Please allow users/faculty to select multiple student names with certain criteria/color from the gradebook and send an email - all at once. this way we can intervene easily. For example, I can easily ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Please add a feature to the Gradebook where users/faculty can color code the gradebook based on criteria that they set (rules). Yes you have the new analytics tool but this would be very helpful to ha...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hi, everyone! Canvas Admin here.  Today I had an instructor that unexpectedly received a new CRN. Before her old shell expired, we were able to retrieve the zip files for two of her ungraded assignmen...

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. Need Allow to create a custom ro...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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  Here I've selected hide courses with 0 students and show only blueprints. Blueprints can not have students, so I can't see any bluerints. If you click "show only blueprints" it should turn "hide 0 ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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On the course-level notifications screen users can completely opt-out of notifications from a particular course or customize individual notification types. I learned today that a user who had opted ou...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Often as an instructor, I want to post a series of threaded questions for students to reply to.   This keeps discussions organized and allows student/instructor choice.     When these questions are po...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I have seen many ideas about the Moderate page in New Quizzes but not seen this mentioned.  In classic quizzes, if you cross-list a course and then only assign the quiz to a section, then when you go ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I would like to receive email notifications when my students leave submission comments, but not when my TAs leave submission comments. Sometimes I'll grade an assignment three weeks after it was submi...

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