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A good instructional design practice is to have a predictable module structure for students to follow throughout a course. Many courses use the calendar to clearly communicate deadlines to students, a...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Right now both Global Announcements and Course Announcements become easily cluttered. It would be beneficial, especially where Global Announcements are concerned, if we had a way to archive or keep an...

Community Coach 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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Currently, once a course reaches its end date for instructor access, instructors no longer have access to the grading history in the course.  According to support, this is intended behavior because th...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Users should be able to mark a question to be used for extra credit in a quiz in Canvas.  This question should only provide credit to the student if it is correct.  It should NOT take away from the st...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We heavily use the question bank folders to keep our questions organized.  We create them in the banks since it is the only way to keep them from going into an "unfiled" folder. The regrade feature ne...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I'd like to see the rubrics within Canvas support percentages rather than fixed points. Like many instructors, I'm constantly tinkering my point distribution to ensure both a challenging environment a...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Group settings should be included when doing a course copy or Import.   I have a course which relies heavily on an intricate set of groups tied to assignments (it's a negotiations course) so I need to...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Our teachers and student support managers, who keep track of a student's progress across all courses, have an overwhelming need to view all students grades even though they are not one of their teache...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Please consider a feature that will allow students to export discussions and related threads. This can be a helpful resource at the end of the course. Professors will want the ability to release discu...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When averaging quiz attempts or when using "latest score" for a quiz, it would be helpful if instructors could delete a quiz attempt by a student. If there is a glitch, an inaccurate/ incomplete attem...

Community Participant 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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If a student submits an assignment to say week 2 folder when it should have been submitted to week 3, currently there is no way to move that assignment to the correct location as the Teacher.  This co...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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With courses that have many modules and module items, the default un-collapsed state on the modules page makes the view overwhelming. I would love the option to choose a 'current' module and have that...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to have an option to download everything related to a completed, graded assignment in one PDF: the annotated PDF of the submission, the "assignment comments" discussion, and the compl...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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So, my impression is that terms are sorted based on date and, perhaps, name. But it doesn't seem consistent. For example, here's the term order on the admin Terms page, which appears to be in descendi...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I should be able to use the scheduler to set up appointment slots for office hours for one week and then have an option for Canvas to automatically create the same schedule on subsequent weeks.

Community Novice 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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I am aware that we can export our canvas calendar feed to another calendar but it would be nice to import calendar feeds too.   For example, I would like to be able to import my institution's academic...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I always find it useful to search for content using an index or an actual search tool rather than just scrolling through all of the pages one by one to find what I need.  I can see many uses for this:...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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