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I would love it if notifications of discussion board posts would say who made the post. I use this in a small class, and this feature would let me loosely keep tabs on who is participating without hav...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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We have had multiple requests by teachers in our district for assignments marked as "Missing" to stay on the student's to-do list until the assignment is turned in. Can this feature please be added? N...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Two staff were editing a document (proof reading) at basically the same time, and only the edits made by the last person to save the document were updated.  Is it possible to have an alert on the edit...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I wish that something showed up in the grid (spreadsheet-like) gradebook view when a comment has been added for a score. It could be, for instance, something like the red dot that is visible next to u...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be great to have a button to post a comment from this window- attached.   

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I would like to have instructure add a warning dialog box when a non-empty folder is trying to be deleted. Currently if you delete a folder all you get is the dialog box to confirm deletion of the fol...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Today we received a message from an instructor: I am looking to import material from a previous module/Canvas "course" to this year's version. If I choose "copy Canvas course" or "Canvas course export...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I would like to suggest that Canvas change the wording of this error message: "Are you sure you want to DELETE this rubric?" to "Are you sure you want to REMOVE this rubric?" Recently, I attached the ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When navigating to Grade Sync in our Canvas Instance, a relatively new message states, "Nightly Grade Sync scheduled at 6:00 PM". This message appears in the first tab you see (History). Our users are...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We use the SIS Grade Push utility in Canvas to allow instructors to push final course grades to our SIS.  This tool has very few controls.  We cannot limit its availability by course role, nor does it...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Came across this oddity today. I'm participating in a course for teaching online, and I went to do one of the assignments. It's due today, but the due date just says: "Due Sunday by 11:59pm". Which Su...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Currently, when a student makes a comment on his/her submission, the teacher will receive a message for that comment via a daily/weekly digest email.However, in the teacher's mailbox, only the message...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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So, after several weeks I'm halfway through a chapter and have published a large number of worksheets and lecture notes for my students.  Finally today, a student tells me he can't see an item I just ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The ability to use the Import tool to copy a Canvas course into itself should be disabled.  There is no reasonable use for such a feature, and when instructors mistakenly choose the existing course as...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Please add an alert of some sort to warn teachers whenever they try to change an existing Assign To field in an assignment or quiz by removing a student or set of students from the list after student ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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When a course is linked to a Blueprint course and a change is made on an unlocked item have an additional box come up to confirm the save is desired and will disassociate from the Blueprint course and...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Now that there has been an update to how we manage Course Dates and use them to override Term Dates, can we also get a similar update in Section Dates? Section Dates still has the "Students can only p...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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