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Problem statement: It would be INCREDIBLY helpful to have added a slider that shows up when grading using the 'range' feature. Instead of having point scaled rubric, possibly add a slider. The rubric ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the UI design principles of the web and mobile clients of Canvas are very different, with different iconography, fonts, features (like dark mode), design, and even differ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Is there a reason why the button for a student to start an assignment is labeled differently in web vs. mobile? It's "Start Assignment" for web and "Submit Assignment" for mobile. ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I mostly use canvas on my iPhone and there are zero features on the app for reading all unread messages in the inbox, so I’m left with a huge amount of unread messages on my phone. The only way to rea...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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For the mobile app, I’d like to request swipe gestures such as deleting, archiving, or flagging inbox messages, or additional tasks that might be relevant on other pages.     Comments from Instructure...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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People>Groups not available in the phone app. I really could use this feature. Canvas web pages, I find, don't optimize well on mobile browsers, at least not on Droid phones.  On the phone app, there'...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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