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I'm a community college professor, and I taught myself how to use Canvas when the pandemic begin. More recently, I've been mentoring my colleagues.  One major problem is that some of the most useful f...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When annotating on documents in SpeedGrader, the Text Annotation option allows you to type new notes anytime you click.  The Free Draw Annotation lets you add new drawings, but as soon as you let off ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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it will be more intuitive to change dashboard images from the dashboard area rather than going to module setting to make the change.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Gradebook eclipses at the top of the columns are not intuitive. They only show when your mouse rolls over the title (that is point A on Image attached). Should be showing all the time that grades are ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We love the functionality that allows teachers to message students directly from Speedgrader.  We would like to request an option for a student to message a teacher from an assignment or quiz without ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When an Assignment is created, it would be beneficial to be able to have a drop-down menu to select a Module to place the assignment in. This could work as the assignment category.  After creating an ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It would be very helpful if the "+" buttons for adding items into modules and other things stayed on the page with me as I scrolled down the page. Some of my modules get lengthy and to have to scroll ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Sometimes a student accidentally uploads the wrong file. Instead of resubmitting a new file, and thus having submitted two files, it would be better to be able to delete your submission!

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In the Canvas Teacher app, currently, when students upload more than 1 pdf files, I have to click each file in order to load each of them. If possible, when students upload more than 1 pdf files, I'd ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When I use the Rich Text Editor to alter text on Assignments, Pages, Discussions, Announcements, and old Quizzes, I frequently use its Equation Editor. When I open the Equation Editor, I would like to...

Community Participant 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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I love the media recording submissions. I just wish there was an option to pause rather than stop and rerecord. I do simulated conversations in my World Language classroom. I would like them to pause ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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There are some assignments that I manually enter grades for if it is submitted on paper in class. It would be nice to have a hot key option when entering grades for late, missing and excused work. Cur...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to be able to extend the typing box, like in regular Canvas, instead of just working in a tiny little box where it is difficult to review what was previously typed.

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Right now to edit an assignment in a Portfolium course, you have to select the check box to reveal a set of option toward the top right. I always catch myself selecting the assignment title instead. P...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When creating modules for a K-5 environment or even a UDL design of a module it is best practice for a designer to chunk the data into small amounts of data on each "page" of the module.  Also, a UDL ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In modules I indent assignments that build off of each other. I recently learned that this does not lock the assignment until the above has been completed. The only way to do this is through the "must...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I generally grade a few hundred tests at once (several sections of large classes), and I'm using the Point Annotation tool exclusively. However, whenever I'm done with a student's test and go to a new...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In Canvas Android app, while browsing modules you realize that a lot of precious screen space is wasted. I don't understand why and cannot find any real reason to be that way because is not justified ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Create a second option for saving at the top of the screen for Assignments.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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