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When assigning an assignment to multiple groups of students, I would love to be able to simply copy and paste a list of student names into the "assign to" field.    I can not create separate sections ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When giving an assignment to a few students it would be great to be able to paste a comma separated list of names into the "Assign To" box. This would be very similar to pasting email addresses into a...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Our university used Moodle for many years, and faculty were able to limit the number of files each student could upload for an assignment. This was useful so that each student would upload the same nu...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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For Online Assignment => Media Recording Submission  -- have the ability to put a time limit for the recordings submitted by students.   This came up during our Canvas Bootcamp, and we have a LOT of E...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Current Limitation:  Currently, Canvas does not allow admins and instructors to weight (i.e. change the percentage of the assignment group) in separate course sections. The current solution is for adm...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Thank you for implementing https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/2214-adjust-all-assignment-and-quiz-dates-on-a-single-page  and https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/16898-bulk-update-selectedall-ass...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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At the moment, in students' to-do list in Canvas, all assignment types, including quizzes, show the due date. This makes sense for most assignment types, but for quizzes, where the due date indicates ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would like to have the option to remove or hide points from assignments.   This would help draw the focus towards formative comments.  The majority of assignments at our school are graded complete/i...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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In higher education, we have the need to give a 0 to all students who did not submit their assignment after the cut-off date (available until date in Canvas). Right now, the missing submissions featur...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In the current workflow of the new assignment enhancements feature, students cannot submit their submission from the 'comments' tab. Some students after attaching their work, will add a comment for th...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When I enter a new assignment into the calendar it is posted on the due date and NOT on the day it is assigned.  Not good.  It would be much better for parents and students using the calendar to know ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This one has been suggested before, but I'd like to suggest it again: one of the options for setting peer reviews of assignments should be "by student group"--all members of a group are automatically ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  Idea open for vote Wed. February 3, 2016 - Wed. May 4, 2016  Learn more about voting...       As a teacher or designer, when I create an assignment and choose submission types, I am presented with...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I am a college professor, and I frequently give recurring assignments such as a weekly reflection paper wherein the students answer essentially the same questions each week about that week's materials...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Part of participating in online coursework involves working with other students to improve drafts and engage in the learning community. When students are assigned peer reviews, let's be honest, they a...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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For assignments that are setup for peer review, it would be useful to have two different due dates: One for the students initial submission that will be reviewed by their peersA second one for complet...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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It is wonderful to be able to change the due date of an assignment by dragging it in the calendar. However, the "available until" date does not change along with the due date. This sometimes results i...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Originally submitted by Sara Wolf   Currently, instructors can choose to allow a variety of formats for assignment submission. However, when the student submits, only one type can be used, unless the ...

Instructure Alumni Canvas Ideas
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