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In the old Gradebook, you are able to hover over the total grade column and see [number of points earned] / [number of points possible].   In the New Gradebook, you can view the total grades by points...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Assignments that are due at 11:59pm are marked as all-day events in the Calendar Feed and do not have specific start & end times. As a result, these events do not adjust based on timezone. This is esp...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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If you make an error in typing a comment while using a rubric and then save it, there is no way to correct it later. It's possible to save a new, corrected comment, but then you have to check each tim...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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If you add an External URL as an item in a Module, and the site/page you are attempting to add does not allow iFraming, users will get a message with a sad face and a "refused to connect" message.   I...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Hi everyone,   We have a student who has received a completion certificate for completing multiple courses in Canvas Catalog. However, the only way to get the certificate and to have the unofficial tr...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Please add a "out of office" feature to the Canvas messages so that students who use the Canvas Inbox to send messages during winter or summer breaks will know that faculty are off campus and unable t...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I am working on a new semester in Canvas. I have moved over my old content from Blackboard. I am now trying to organize items a bit better into modules. It would be wonderful if there was a way to sel...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This is a feature that I was expecting to find in Canvas because I have used it in D2L Brightspace. A checklist is something that is added to a module and created by the instructor. Here's an article ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In the Gradebook you are allowed to manually enter letter grades if the assignment's "Display Grade As" is set to "Letter Grade". Unfortunately, if done this way the .csv file exported will not includ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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With the assessment late policy feature, Gradebook 2.0 removes the burden which our lecturers have to deduct the mark for late submission manually. The late submissions are identified automatically...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi, I just had a professor call me. He mutes his exams while grading them, because he adjusts up and down based on how many missed a question. He switched over to Quizzes.Next, and we found that it do...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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A feature in Hot Spot that would really benefit our students is the ability to have multiple hot spots in a single image. Eg: English students being able to go an image of text and identifying multipl...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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In the student interface, currently it is not possible to select multiple or all announcements to make them marked as read. As a result, often times a student's announcement thread will fill up to the...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Create automatic link to assignment you are referring to in "message students who".... It would be great if a link to the assignment you are referring to is part of the "message students who" featur...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Comments from Instructure The  Canvas Release Notes (2022-01-15) includes partial credit options for matching questions in New Quizzes. Please refer to  New Quizzes: Partial Credit for Matching Questi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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USE CASE: I do a lot of small “group” exercises in the classroom.  I need the ability to grade the submissions as a group (which is there), but I also need the ability to provide individual grades (to...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Currently if instructors create a group assignment, and a group set, they can enable self sign-up within that group set. This is desirable as often they want students to self-organise into groups of c...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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This idea suggests additional improvements to Canvas rubrics so they conform with conventional rubric design. Although the updated rubric features were improved from the original Canvas release, some ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to have the option to add a signature block that can automatically be added to "Inbox" messages as well as discussion posts.

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We would really like to see the Syllabus page have page history so that instructors who spend hours on it, and then delete it accidentally, can get it back.  Other pages/modules have this feature, but...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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