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Assignments and Classic Quizzes have an option to Download All Files or Download Submissions, either for Assignment submissions or for the files submitted to a File Upload quiz question. Since New Qui...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Post Annotations and Grades Separately It would be extremely beneficial to have the ability to post feedback separately from posting grades. This is an extension of a previous idea on the community: h...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea is to add the ability to download each student's responses to essay questions on a quiz formatted the same way we already bulk download all assignment submissions.    In online courses, essa...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Challenge: Surveys still look like quizzes In the current version of Canvas (December 2019), students have to click a button that says 'Submit Quiz' to submit a survey. Surveys also turn up in the Qui...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In New Gradebook, instructors intuit incorrectly that Hide and Post replace Mute/Unmute. They believe these actions affect future grades. They do not know to look for the Grade Posting Policy.   Impr...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Feature Request:  Pop up a warning when navigating away from editing a quiz to give instructors a chance to change the total points that are in the gradebook.  The warning should be similar to one tha...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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There are several added flexibilities I would like to see added to the late penalty policy, as a correction to the apparent unfairness described by Timothy Lim, "The automatic late submission penalty...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Faculty expect the Eye Icon in SpeedGrader to work the same as the old Mute/Unmute feature, but it does not.   We recently discovered that if an assignment has the Automatic Post Policy applied and yo...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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We recently discovered that if an assignment has the Automatic Post Policy applied and you hide grades, it is only hiding the grades that exist at the time you click Hide Grades. Grades you enter afte...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Multiple faculty in have requested the following enhancement for assessments in Quizzes.Next.  In Canvas Quizzes.Next there's no way for the quiz to be due at a particular time, and be considered "sub...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Instructure has decided that course designers should not be able to create or edit New Quizzes. The purpose of the designer role is to create and maintain course content, so making designers unable to...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When an instructor migrates a quiz using the option on the quiz page in Canvas, the questions will only exist in the quiz. In order to get the questions in an item bank, the instructor must edit each ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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To reduce the number of clicks to post grades for assignments utilizing a manual posting policy, make the eye icon above the assignment in the gradebook clickable.   This would streamline the current ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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For the current (old?) quizzes the API makes it easy to identify courses that contain quizzes. However, with New Quizzes there is currently no way to use the Canvas API to determine which courses are ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Hi,   We would like the ability to add or remove admins from subaccounts at the root level.     Adam SmithCollege of EducationAccount AdminAdd    RemoveJoe SmithSchool of Public HealthAccount AdminAd...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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The Canvas support team has a link on a users profile that "clears the user's cache".   So far this has fixed issues when the items don't display on the course navigation or courses do not display in ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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We would like the ability to set the grade posting policy within the new Gradebook at the Account and Subaccount level.   In our experience, the assumption is that the grades will be hidden from stude...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Allow a show/hide date range for the "Let Students See Their Quiz Responses (Incorrect Questions Will Be Marked in Student Feedback)" quiz setting. In order to maintain test security, instructors ofte...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When we delay announcements (say, if we have some left over from the previous offering of the course that we want to reuse but aren't sure when the course starts when it will run so we aren't ready to...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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As we look forward to New Gradbook, I have a teacher asking for a feature.  She's asking for:   "...a little symbol, like a notch in the corner, to show that the teacher has made a comment on the grad...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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