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It would be great to see more information in the announcement email notifications. At the moment, the formatting and images are all stripped from the notifications. The email notification also does no...

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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When students take a multiple matching quiz, it is very confusing for them to continue to see answer options in the drop down list after they have selected them as an answer. See in the pic below how ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I created a similar suggestion about six months ago. I figured I would try again since there is renewed interest in making discussions more user friendly. Add more distinction between discussion forum...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Instructors often want, or are asked, to share news and information of importance to all our classes.  Currently, that means copying and pasting that information into anywhere from 2-5 different class...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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While or for-credit courses are not eligible for self-enrollment, we also have some Human Resources training courses, and other types of non-credit courses which would benefit from self-enrollment. On...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Our faculty would like to be able to subscribe to the group discussions in their course so they can follow along, be alerted when a student posts something new, post feedback, and keep discussions on ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We are taking a hard look at our new curriculum and trying to ask some questions about how and where to make improvements. As such, we're looking for a lot of information about what questions students...

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 propose the ability to make a quiz a group quiz, like you can for assignments. As a course gets larger instructors would like the ability to automate the activities to include more students and no...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Assume the case where modules are organized by unit content, so there are many assignments and other content items in a given module.   Module X: Content PageAssignment AContent PageAssignment B *Assi...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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In providing feedback to students in the Assignment Comments area of an assignment, I often provide URLs to students.  Currently, the comments area is text only so students cannot click on the URL to ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Please excuse the verbose title.   Our faculty want the option to have assignments within an assignment group to be given the same weight even if they are graded on different point values.   For examp...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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It would be excellent if the quiz tool enabled branching for adaptive learning. If quizzes were embedded into content then potentially students could be directed to a particular piece of content based...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  Idea open for vote Wed. January 6, 2016 - Wed. April 6, 2016  Learn more about voting...       It would  be easier when creating rubrics and outcomes if the "Ratings" scale could be inherited for ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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At Skyline College faculty are required to assess outcomes on a regular basis. We do not look at individuals per se, but instead we look at the class as a whole and gather statistics about what percen...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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A stop or cancel button on imports could be a lifesaver for all Canvas users. I see it being helpful in scenarios such as:   You start to import the wrong content You accidentally selected "All conten...

Community Participant 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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DESCRIPTION In order to encourage students to participate more in the online discussion forum for their classes, many instructors require that they submit more than one post to a graded forum. Current...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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@For federal and state financial aid reasons, we need very accurate reporting of user activity.  It appears that the activity performed by an admin while masquerading is showing up on the user access ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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