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Problem statement: When you have the Excel settings that your decimal symbol is a comma and therefore your list separator is a semicolon, due to region settings of your Computer OS, you cannot use the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When pasting assignment titles from internally generated documents (typically word), special characters like the em-dash are not sanitised, leading to gradebook export display issue...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas users can upload any file on their computer. Sometimes these files contain sensitive information (PII or Title IV Student Data), or might even be malicious (viruses, phishing...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I know that HEIC is a proprietary file format so will never be supported because to render it requires a licence but what is the progress on supporting the WebP file format?

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In New Quizzes, when you upload/embed an image as part of a question, it renames the file.  For example, I had embedded a picture of Olaf from the movie "Frozen" into a question.  The original file na...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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tl;dr When migrating Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes, any files attached to quiz questions get renamed.  Attached file names should not be renamed during migration. More Context I recently migrated a C...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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For LTI 1.1 there was support for environment variables (https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.tools_xml.html#test_env_settings) so when beta/test refreshed, our LTI tools would point to beta/te...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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We're from Crystal Delta solutions, partners of Canvas instructure. We do have Loree LTI in Canvas which will make designer life easier to design a page without HTML/CSS knowledge. We used to load the...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We cannot add Comment Out tags in the HTML Editor and need this ability to help designers edit home pages.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I love the Office 365 LTI as a submission type! It works great for my students to receive a copy of the doc, edit directly in Canvas, and submit through Canvas. However, I noticed that restricting the...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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We use some publicly or institutionally visible Canvas courses to host content so that it can be easily linked and available in our Syllabi and course resources pages.  Unfortunately, links within a c...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Canvas will not open .fig file (Matlab). Installing MatLab Grader does not resolve the issue. Currently, the file must be downloaded in order to open or the professor must hand-code the correct html...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I am a Canvas Admin in a K-12 Environment. Although we have used Canvas for about 6 years, this is the first school year we are seeing very heavy use of the platform in all subject areas. One issue th...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I am a photo teacher. Each assignment has 5-7 files. I want to be able to download one section at a time and when I unzip the folder I want each student to have a folder with their name and inside the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently when you nickname a course and then enter that course, the nickname shows in the breadcrumb trail in the course, but the browser tab still shows the course code rather than nickname. For ins...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I often need to free up space in my Files page (within its folder structure), and I find myself downloading a large image file, reducing its size using my Windows app, and then re-uploading the file a...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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The rich content editor strips out inline svg. It would be nice to use svg element which has wide cross browser support. https://caniuse.com/#search=svg

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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There is a problem when you export the grades of the gradebook to a csv file. It has to do with the decimal numbers (the comma or the point as decimal symbol). (I am not talking about the separator wi...

Community Participant 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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TL;DR: The ability for users to hide the grading, comments, and files area so documents can be viewed in full screen when grading in the Teacher App.    The Teacher app currently doesn't give the abil...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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