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So, after several weeks I'm halfway through a chapter and have published a large number of worksheets and lecture notes for my students.  Finally today, a student tells me he can't see an item I just ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Sometimes I enter an assignment for which I give everyone credit.  So I quickly enter the completion grades, scrolling down the column in the gradebook.  The trouble is, if I'm going fast, the cursor ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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On the Canvas Dashboard when in card view users see the course title, term, and then icons for what is in the course (assignments, discussions, etc.). Idea Suggestion: Add in the ability to change th...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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tl;dr It would be helpful if the SIS Export Report >> enrollments.csv report (How do I view reports for an account?) would also include the first/last name of the user along with the user's e-mail add...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Hello everyone! At our institution we use Studio to create educational videos we find that when we generate a public link to share a video we cannot know the viewing statistics as we did on youtube. I...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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The subject line really sums it up. It just helps to see progress when I’m grading on my iPad rather than having to exit Speed Grader to see how many assignments I have left.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hi Community, we can't add more than one attachment in an announcement, this is a problem when you need to send several documents to people in your course. Canvas can you do something?

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This is a small issue but currently there is no ability to manage users in Commons.  You would think that Commons would match your users in your Canvas instance but users created in error (such as a m...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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The admin course search previously included a last page hyperlink to jump to the last page. Speaking to Canvas support, we understand that this functionality was removed to improve the performance of ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The ability to use the Import tool to copy a Canvas course into itself should be disabled.  There is no reasonable use for such a feature, and when instructors mistakenly choose the existing course as...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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It’s been confusing for my students (and for me at times) that you have to click the title of an announcement and not any part of the preview. I have had students who were using the “reply” option as ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It would be great to have a "Select All" button at the top of the rubric's column that represents a score of 100%. This would permit graders to more efficiently grade assessments with multiple grading...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I don't see a way to create multiple sub-outcomes within an outcome in Canvas. We we design courses, learning designers always disconstruct a main learning goal into several sub-learing objectives whi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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One benefit of mastery connect was an option to do a quick-add of a score on a standard without having to actually create an assignment. So many times, teachers will have conversations with students a...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Hello, We are attempting to encourage users to make use of Canvas Studio and discourage use of the native media tool in an attempt to better comply with captioning needs. It is helpful that we can hid...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I am new to Canvas and overall have been enjoying the Collaborations feature to allow students to more easily collaborate on Google Drive in a way that is easily linked to class.  However, I have an i...

Community Explorer 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 use timed quizzes and tests in my classes. I noticed that the quizzes autosubmit as soon as the time runs out, even if the student isn't done. However, I'd rather allow them to finish even if it's b...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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TLDR;  When using grade passback between Canvas and an SIS, differentiated assignments don't passback at all. This is not in the best interest of teachers and students and needs to work. Full Descript...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through theCanvas Release Notes (2023-10-21)  It would be great fo...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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