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I have had several students request that they have the ability to "check off" and "flag" certain items within a modules.  They would like to be able to "check off" when something is completed and flag...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Student enrollments which have been set to the "inactive" status currently show up on the People page tagged with the "inactive" label. We are now using the inactive status for students who have enrol...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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It would be useful for us if we could enable students to see exactly which questions they got partially or fully wrong. We use Assignment Grading rubrics and the SpeedGrader to individually input the ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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The home pages are a critical part of any course as they offer students guidance on where to begin when they first log in to a course. For many of our faculty, these pages serve a very specific purpos...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I have found the "message students who..." function in gradebook very effective to nudging students to complete assignments. I suggest an option that, when you create the assignment, you can automatic...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Account Roles created at the root-account level automatically 'trickle down' to the sub-accounts and there is currently no way to prevent this from happening.   It would be great to be able to create ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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In order to assess and grade a student on participation in the discussion boards, it would be helpful to be able to see all of that student's posts aggregated on a single page. Of course the replies w...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Currently when a student is finishes answering a question they must select next question or submit answer button to move onto the next question or end the assignment.   Many of my students would lik...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I would like to see the total points earned on an individual module in the grade book. I would also like to be able to push this score to our SIS instead of individual grades from the module.  I do a ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Right now, as it stands, you can create a pre-test and then trigger 3 paths using Mastery Paths. But, if I give a due date for each item in the Mastery Path (before student interaction), this due date...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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When a teacher wants to add a rubric to an assignment, they currently have to search through all of their courses to find the right one. This may require them to scroll down a long list before they fi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Our school uses the current quizzing feature for a lot of our assessments, and we are also using a grading scheme to have grades show the same way in the grade book. With the current quizzing feature ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In the April 1, 2017 production release, a new feature was introduced that allows students to export course content for offline viewing.   However, once an admin checks the box to "allow students to d...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Currently, the gradebook_history_api.feed (https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/gradebook_history.html#method.gradebook_history_api.feed), (and actually all of the gradebook_history endpoints), cont...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/8437-graderid-endpoint-for-the-gradebookhistoryapifeedThe gradebook_history_api.feed (https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/gradebook_history.html#method.gradebo...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Situation Frequently email addresses used in Canvas bounce emails while admin are completely unaware this is happening. Possible causes: people start using other email addresses and close the previous...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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It would be great to change the size of the fill-in blank answer spaces instead of the small size that is there for one or two words. We are trying to mimic the PARCC test (text extraction) and it wou...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This idea would allow the ability for instructors who are wanting to open up prior quizzes for a review for the upcoming test but later restrict access not only to the answers but also the questions. ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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We would like to implement standards-based grading for all of our honors courses at our grades 6-12 institution. Yet there are two big features missing from the Learning Mastery Gradebook that current...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I would love to be able to set different access codes for a quiz for each section of the class. Because they meet at different times, I have to edit the quiz after each section takes it to change the ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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