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I would like the ability to quickly access completion of formative assignments and quizzes, similar to walking around the classroom and glancing at the students work. It is burdensome to open each ass...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In Canvas Studio when using the Studio LTI app in the RCE and choosing a video from My Uploads library, there are two tabs: Standard Embed (assuming Commenting Enabled) and Video Quiz Embed. You can c...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I'm using an online OER textbook. I'd like to assign students to read a chapter each week. Right now, I do this by adding a page, typing the information into the page along with a link to the chapter,...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It's possible to make a module appear for students after they meet requirements (e.g. submit an assignment in a different module). This suggestion is to also allow modules to be hidden after requireme...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Hello fine Canvas Studio folks!  Us Admins are here to beg express our desire to have an Admin Analytics Dashboard.  I personally have been asking for this feature since our baby was born and named Ar...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Assignment Groups %'s should be optional. Students think the % is their grade. Could a progress bar be used instead of numerical progress for Assignment Groups? This change would help limit student gr...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I request that notifications of grade passback sync errors be delivered to instructors through the Canvas inbox, or by an alert within their Canvas account. We need a more proactive approach to alerti...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Now that there has been an update to how we manage Course Dates and use them to override Term Dates, can we also get a similar update in Section Dates? Section Dates still has the "Students can only p...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to move an entire day's events to another day in bulk or several at a time. Right now, I have to move each event individually. Highlighting the events to move (all or some or c...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to change the entire font color for all text in an assignment to another color without changing the hyperlinks to that color. Or maybe a button can change the hyperlinks back t...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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My students aren't turning on notifications for Speed Grader rubric comments and video feedback. They also aren't turning on notifications for "Message Students Who" from my messages left within the G...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to add multiple files at one time when uploading them to Speed Grader's comments section at the bottom. Right now each file has to be added separately.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to view more than one month at the same time in the calendar window.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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If an instructor enters grades for an assignment or quiz with an automatic grade-posting policy, students with notification preferences set for email and push notifications will receive both an email ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Support keeps telling me that errors with the recording of student submissions in Quizzes are caused by students opening a quiz in multiple tabs/windows at the same time. If this is the case, then ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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The current intended behavior of Canvas is to show undated assignments as existing in the final grading period of the year. This was a surprise to many K-12 teachers when their Q4 grading period start...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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The Direct Share feature, specifically the "Copy To" feature has been great! I have a couple little requests to tweak it. It doesn't include the ability to remove dates like the "Import Course Content...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Would it be possible to change the Gradebook Statuses "pop-up" window into a flyout menu, so that the Gradebook can be seen side-by-side with the Statuses? Something like this?  

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Can you please add a color picker tool to the Statuses screen? As a developer, even I have trouble remembering hex color values, let alone our faculty!

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I've had many instructors who have indicated that they cannot find the specific status color when looking at the Gradebook. It turns out that the applied color of a cell is different when it's in a ce...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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