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The Student Outcomes Report is incredibly useful for our school, that uses standards-based grading! We could use this as our primarily tool for trend analysis if it were a little more accessible and u...

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Feature suggestion: Add the option in the Canvas Teacher App for a teacher to be able to change the status of an assignment (missing, late, excused, none) within SpeedGrader. On October 16 SpeedGrader...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I am at one of at least two institutions which would like TA's to be able to grade student work without having access to view the entire gradebook. My ideal solution would be to give TA's "write" perm...

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Grade sync shows the errors.  It does not have a link to the assignment or quiz.  I then have to search my course for that item.  It is a pain.   Even more recently this became worse, when the item wa...

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When moderating a quiz (new quizzes) the Moderate tab does not update in realtime.  If I want to check who has submitted and who is still working I have to either click refresh on my browser, which th...

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The way courses are listed in different parts of Canvas needs to be standardized. There seems to currently be at least three different listings: Course name only,Course name + termCourse name + term +...

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I have had a teacher publish a Canvas Catalog course and then try to add a new student. Even though the course was published, they still got the message, "Invitations will not be sent until the course...

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I love the Office 365 LTI as a submission type! It works great for my students to receive a copy of the doc, edit directly in Canvas, and submit through Canvas. However, I noticed that restricting the...

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I would like to see comments that work more like comments in Google Docs. I should be able to link the comment to the specific spot in the student submission so they know exactly where in their essay ...

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Our instructors and TAs need the ability to add people (non-students) to past courses, such as new faculty, so they can review prior course content. Once a course has ended (by term or by date), peopl...

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Are there any plans for additional grade visibility settings in C4E? Our use case may be too specific, but this is our situation: primary grade (K-2) receive I, W, or N on their report card, which doe...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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This is likely a combination of smaller ideas, but for those of us admins who get grade reports directly from Canvas instead of going through a SIS, especially for K12 - the Canvas grade report functi...

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The New access token window does not offer adequate warning that whoever is generating an access token may be inadvertently allowing access to data subject to GDPR regulations by a third party. There ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In the Canvas Parent App, the Announcements show up in the "Alerts" section but you can't filter it by subject and you can't get back to them if you clear out the notification. It appears the only way...

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My students have submitted essays and I want to use the voice recognition or the video record feature to give them feedback but I am unable to scroll through their submission while I make these commen...

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When creating an assignment I opt for complete / incomplete.  However, once it appears in speedgrader the options should be complete / incomplete / missing.  Why?  When I set the default for missing a...

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I would like to see an additional "Message Students Who" with the option "Had not signed on" in 1, 2, 3 or more days to alert students that the Instructor is noticing they do not appear to be attendin...

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For the file upload assignment type, if one uploads a file that does not fit the instructor defined file type restrictions (like a pdf when only doc/docx is accepted) Canvas returns a non-helpful erro...

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Items in the grade book are available for sync with SIS. However, sections are not in the sync and individuals are not available for sync. Why not mimic assignments' ability to be allowed to sync with...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Although you can set up a course to include multiple sections and you can even constrain teachers and TAs such that they can only interact with students within their section.  There is no way currentl...

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