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Problem statement: Without confirmation, teachers are in doubt as to whether the new grade was actually updated. Proposed solution: The idea from one of our professors is that when updating scores, a...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: After entering grades for assignments, rather than having to individually sync each class's grades with 3 clicks (which equates to 21 clicks each time I sync - personally), could th...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Please add drag-and-drop capability to SpeedGrader for faculty adding a comment. Right now it seems that only text can be added to the Comment textbox. Our college has faculty who l...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I have to review each page of the SIS Integration > Grade Sync from the night before, looking for completed sync's that have an exclamation point so that we can notify teachers they...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hi, folks. I'm a Canvas Admin and I have an idea I think would be helpful for those using rubrics in conjunction with New Quizzes. It's currently possible to attach a Rubric to a New Quiz and select "...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, new quizzes will not push an updated quiz grade to the gradebook if the term end date has passed, even if the end date for teachers (or other grader roles) is still in th...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Unanswered essay questions (from students either skipping them or running out of time) requiring manual grading. With >150 students, I many times have instances where I am just putt...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Many institutions have late policies for assignments, discussions, and quizzes. These late policies are unique for the institution and encourage students to submit work by the due date. For assignment...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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As it says in the Instructor Guide: You cannot use a rubric for grading in quizzes, since quiz scores are calculated based on the number of points assigned to each quiz question. But this is what I wa...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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The comment library feature is being used by faculty at my institution; however, as the number of comments continue to increase in the library, managing them becomes more difficult with no way of grou...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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For a native Canvas assignment, can a feature be added that allows users to view the similarity scores for all submissions combined in a single list?  Currently the only options to view these are in S...

Community Explorer 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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Placing an option to message a student from within Speedgrader would be wonderful.  I know there's a comment section but I find students rarely look at that.  

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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As admin, I have a faculty member requesting a new feature in Canvas quizzes.  New Feature: Give an option to allow or not allow feedback per question. The faculty member wants to give feedback for ce...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When I write a quiz full of essay questions, canvas cannot autograde it.  That is expected.  However, when it autogrades as a zero the students panic.  The work around to set the quiz to a manual grad...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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In most contexts, when a file such as a Word document or PDF is linked in Canvas, a preview button is added alongside the filename, which allows the user to preview the file in-line without downloadin...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Using a rubric to grade in Canvas can be an exercise in frustration. Even the official documentation (How do I use a rubric to grade submissions in SpeedGrader?) starts by having you resize the parts ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When students submit their work as pdf documents for quizzes, then the instructor need to download the pdfs for grading. When students submit their work as pdf documents for assignments, then DocViewe...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I'd like to set up a quiz in which I key each question to one of four outcomes. I'd like to be able to grade the quiz by seeing how many points students earn in each of the categories. (Each category ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Our school uses the current quizzing feature for a lot of our assessments, and we are also using a grading scheme to have grades show the same way in the grade book. With the current quizzing feature ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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