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New Quizzes reports do not include the Student Analysis report as seen in Classic Quizzes. Our faculty use this report to track completion of students.  Currently the reports offered in New Quizzes do...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Idea is currently in development Idea:  Include an option to view discussion posts alphabetically by the student's names. Ideally it's set to the same order as the course's SpeedGrader and/or Gradeb...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be great if there were a way for students to preview the assignments in a module.  My students will turn in blank assignments so that they can access the next module to see what's comping.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In the formula questions, you can select the number of decimal points a number should have, but in the preview of the generated solutions it will display with fewer decimal points if there are trailin...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice if Canvas had an option to return to the top of the module that you are working on. When you click the modules button, it takes you back to the very top of all of the modules.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I'd like to give both faculty and students the option to re-order the items on their To Do list in terms of their personal priority. As an instructor (and I assume a student) we have the option to rem...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In Modules, when all modules are collapsed, the unlock dates are not shown. The only way to see the "will unlock" is to expand the module/s. Please see the screenshots attached.        

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Canvas new quiz formula questions, should have a setting so that only combinations with whole numbers will be allowed. Sometimes I don't want answers to have crazy decimals, so only have numbers that ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Formula questions should be able to select all even or odd numbers between a range. Right now it has to be a straight range, but I want to see more options within that range. Even, odds, every third, ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Numeric answers in canvas quizzes should include a rich content editorFor example, students can type in ℼwhen finding the diameter

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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My county did a wonderful job pre-loading Modules for the ELA dept. However, it is a huge pain when you are looking for a Module to publish or un-publish and you're scrolling through so many items. It...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I would love for my students t be able to access modules, assignments, pages through just my homepage even though I have disabled the assignment, module, pages link in the course navigation. I wanted ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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The formula based questions are an essential tool for math based courses, but there is a big limiting factor. Formula questions work on a set of defined variables input by the teacher. I would like to...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I  am updating my course for the upcoming academic year and I have stumbled upon a major roadblock regarding quizzes.  With the Classic Quizzes set to disappear next summer, it doesn't seem worth my w...

Community Explorer 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 (2024-11-20)  When a student joins...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I would like to see a formula question where the variable values can be generated by a formula, and does not necessarily have to be numeric.  Likewise, answers do not necessarily have to be numeric.  ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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There needs to be a way to set up a formula question so that a variable can pick from a set, rather than simply being assigned a random value in a range.  For example, if I wrote a question which says...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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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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