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Working at the Elementary level, having all of the old work and assignments displayed on the module page will just become more and more difficult for students to navigate to find their current assignm...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2023-10-21)  I created a series ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Idea is currently in development Grading and replying to forum posts would be more efficient if both could be done from Speedgrader, instead of grading in Speedgrader and moving back to the Discussi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I'm not sure if there is already a way to do this but it would be nice if the last page of the module instead of saying "Next" and going to a new module it said "Home" and took you back to the home pa...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Elementary Modules need to be able to work differently than secondary or college level. Students do not always move through modules. We need a way to put an end page to a module or a stop button so st...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Can something be added so that students can be given a table or equation and then they put points on a graph or move a line on the graph to match the table or equation.  At this point, some of our sta...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We have graphics on our home page which link directly to the different modules in our course and when we click it takes us to the module page but you can also see all of the other modules at the same ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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As we move from Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes, I would love to have the option to add a "Text (no question)" question type in a New Quiz (as we have in Classic Quizzes). This opens the opportunity to...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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We would like to see in the New Quizzes for the Stimulus question the ability to upload a file and preview that file so students can read the PDF while answering the questions.  I have several teacher...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Many of our fully-online courses (particularly in science and math) require that students draw a diagram or process in their assessments, and when combined with proctoring tools, this becomes a compli...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through the Canvas Deploy Notes (2025-09-24)  We recently discover...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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USE CASE: I do a lot of small “group” exercises in the classroom.  I need the ability to grade the submissions as a group (which is there), but I also need the ability to provide individual grades (to...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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When grading papers or other file uploads from students, the ability to use formatted text in the annotation tools would be really helpful. For example, if a student is not formatting citations proper...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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With the new "Color Overlay" feature for course card images in this weeks Beta Release Notes, I think there should be a way to set the default behavior at an account level (edit: not subaccount level,...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Current Situation The current audio submission tool is decent, but it is neither robust nor efficient, and, most importantly, it is not available for quizzes.   Problem For second/foreign language cou...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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It would be a wonderful addition to allow multiple numerical blank questions.  Essentially take the numerical answer question and cross it with the fill in multiple blanks type of question.  Many inst...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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  Students need a way to pin (or perhaps bookmark) where they are leaving off in a module so they can quickly return to that location on subsequent login.   This previously posted idea Bookmark is int...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2025-01-18)    default grading s...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea is based on extending the Formula Question type to allow for multiple answers to be entered by students.   Currently, the Formula question type is fine for simple calculated answer questions...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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It would be very helpful if you could insert "Back" and "Next" buttons at the top of module item pages. This would eliminate the need to scroll down through long pages in order to move to the next mod...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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