Canvas Ideas

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Problem statement: In a user's access report in a course (https://[domain].instructure.com/courses/[course_id]/users/[user_id]/usage), the icon for discussion boards and announcements is the same, and...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It would be INCREDIBLY helpful to have added a slider that shows up when grading using the 'range' feature. Instead of having point scaled rubric, possibly add a slider. The rubric ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We get notifications in Conversations only when we're logged in and using it.It would be great so see in real time who's active on a conversations and when people post messages through the Canvas stud...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Students are 1:1 with iPads and we greatly appreciate the ability for them to be able to turn in assignments from third-party apps such as Notability and Google. Students use a drop down menu to choos...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The subject line really sums it up. It just helps to see progress when I’m grading on my iPad rather than having to exit Speed Grader to see how many assignments I have left.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Sometimes I need to message part of a class but not all. The current Mobile App Inbox options allow me to either select the entire class or select each student one at a time to add to the message. Any...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In a 1-1 iPad environment many assignments get completed using Apple Pencils on .pdf documents. Whenever this happens it would be great to have the ability to pass feedback back and forth quickly betw...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Please consider a feature that allows teachers (or canvas admins) the ability to select a default too for use in speedgrader for iOS. For example, if a teacher collects assignments of the type "file u...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When grading in the app, it would be nice to have the title of the assignment at the top, while you're looking at each student's work. Once you click on an assignment, the title of the assignment is n...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be great if on the canvas app, as a teacher, we could just scroll up and down to go through all the file attachments a student has submitted, instead of having to back to “files” and having t...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When grading in the Teacher App for Canvas, the grade slider only has whole number increments. It would be useful to have other decimal value available, such as .25, .5 and .75. Idea originates from V...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to grade submissions while not on wifi (on iPad) and then have it sync back up when I get to a wifi connection.

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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