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Now that there has been an update to how we manage Course Dates and use them to override Term Dates, can we also get a similar update in Section Dates? Section Dates still has the "Students can only p...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to move an entire day's events to another day in bulk or several at a time. Right now, I have to move each event individually. Highlighting the events to move (all or some or c...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to change the entire font color for all text in an assignment to another color without changing the hyperlinks to that color. Or maybe a button can change the hyperlinks back t...

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My students aren't turning on notifications for Speed Grader rubric comments and video feedback. They also aren't turning on notifications for "Message Students Who" from my messages left within the G...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to add multiple files at one time when uploading them to Speed Grader's comments section at the bottom. Right now each file has to be added separately.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to view more than one month at the same time in the calendar window.

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Support keeps telling me that errors with the recording of student submissions in Quizzes are caused by students opening a quiz in multiple tabs/windows at the same time. If this is the case, then ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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The current intended behavior of Canvas is to show undated assignments as existing in the final grading period of the year. This was a surprise to many K-12 teachers when their Q4 grading period start...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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The Direct Share feature, specifically the "Copy To" feature has been great! I have a couple little requests to tweak it. It doesn't include the ability to remove dates like the "Import Course Content...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Would it be possible to change the Gradebook Statuses "pop-up" window into a flyout menu, so that the Gradebook can be seen side-by-side with the Statuses? Something like this?  

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Can you please add a color picker tool to the Statuses screen? As a developer, even I have trouble remembering hex color values, let alone our faculty!

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I've had many instructors who have indicated that they cannot find the specific status color when looking at the Gradebook. It turns out that the applied color of a cell is different when it's in a ce...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In addition to the grades that appear in the Canvas course grading scheme, many higher ed Student Information Systems accept alternative values (typically alphanumeric) to indicate special situations ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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This would produce an editable file that could be used for course planning and revisions. The format could be txt or docx. It would allow an instructor or course designer to easily mark up the course ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I would like to suggest that when a rubric is deleted from an assignment it doesn't get completed deleted from the course.  It makes no sense that it would be completed deleted.  If I hadn't verified ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In speedgrader on the web, teachers have to "check" or "tick" pen annotations. This is different from most annotation apps.  The need to "check" to save pen annotations is confusing since that is not ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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With assignment enhancements enabled this semester, we repeatedly ran into an issue where students told our support staff and their teachers that they submitted work, even though SpeedGrader did not s...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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There are many configuration parameters for LTIs (see the external tools API docs) that are only available to change/edit through either the API or through editing XML (LTI 1.0/1.11) / JSON (LTI 1.3)....

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We are able to archive inbox messages, but it would be great if we could also archive sent messages.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Currently if you have an assignment set to complete/incomplete grading and worth 0 points, if you download the gradebook, all students are shown as having 0s rather than completes and incompletes. "Ex...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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