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I'm not sure if there is already a way to do this but it would be nice if the last page of the module instead of saying "Next" and going to a new module it said "Home" and took you back to the home pa...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I would like the ability to add formulas/equations into my questions in the Canvas Video Studio.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Idea So, the idea is pretty straightforward: allowing links on the course navigation to be grouped into submenus.   Reason Why? Any more questions?   Idea Breakdown Grouping Concept While the most ba...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Elementary Modules need to be able to work differently than secondary or college level. Students do not always move through modules. We need a way to put an end page to a module or a stop button so st...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Currently, a use can view their file listings by individual folders or they can search for files by name. I'm suggesting they be given another search option: find files by size.   Consider the user cl...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Can something be added so that students can be given a table or equation and then they put points on a graph or move a line on the graph to match the table or equation.  At this point, some of our sta...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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In addition to the anonymous annotations and grading it would make sense that the next logical step would be to also have anonymous rubric marking. anonymous assessment rubrics* anonymous marking

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This image shows the exact layout of an assignment when using Google Doc Cloud assignments when you are trying to embed or add other needed information in a page. As you can see it gets very cut off ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi   I have a request for Speedgrader   Is it possible to know how much time a marker spend marking assignments (eg. in the figure below 00:14 means 14 minutes)? Has this idea being discussed before? ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Table/Image Advanced Properties  The Table, cell and rowadvanced properties option is a limiting design. There is a  dropdown list, without the ability to customize the html, which was available in th...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I generally grade a few hundred tests at once (several sections of large classes), and I'm using the Point Annotation tool exclusively. However, whenever I'm done with a student's test and go to a new...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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On Canvas on the right-side bar that appears when an assignment is clicked, there are the colored options like None, Late, Missing, and Excused. We also need the option of "Hold." Oftentimes I need to...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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As an instructor, when I make some major adjustments to my grade book, every little thing that happens to the grade book "dings" the student's notifications.  There should be a feature to allow some c...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When creating a quiz, it would be really nice to have a text box for Teacher's Notes.  This feature would allow us to make notes about each quiz question (i.e. what chapter or article the question is ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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While using Canvas online mobile/tablet version (I know people that use it that way because is convenient when you don't have your laptop and you want to study, and you don't want to use the Canvas ap...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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In Canvas Android app, while browsing modules you realize that a lot of precious screen space is wasted. I don't understand why and cannot find any real reason to be that way because is not justified ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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In old quizzes and new_quizzes it appears that Google Doc Files cannot be uploaded for the file upload question in a quiz.  This has also been confirmed in Why can't I select the google doc to upload ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When using Canvas in a mobile/tablet browser (something quite convenient, remember that not everybody has a laptop and not everybody likes Canvas app), when you have finished week 1 module and press t...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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As faculty teach more courses over the years, their All-Courses tab in Global Navigation gets filled with courses from previous semesters. As an admin, I find this very difficult to navigate, especial...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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As I am exploring quizzes in studio , I am experiencing an issue that may cause students to overlook certain options for answers to the quiz. (How do I create a Canvas Studio video quiz in a course?‌)...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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