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Right now the Settings for Studio are for all Teachers and all Students, globally. We need to be able to select different settings for High School students (less restrictive) than for Middle and Eleme...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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The documented Mastery Path API only includes the ability to select a mastery path: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/modules.html#method.context_module_items_api.select_mastery_path By itself, t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When looking at resources shared to Canvas Commons, you can click on the "Details" tab to see things like the author, grade/level, tags, people who have commented with reviews, etc.  On this screen, i...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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In (Classic) Quizzes, we have a feature that disables the auto-submit feature of the quiz; however, reviewing the students' times on the quiz is cumbersome. The only way to view how long the student t...

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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Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same need, please feel free to comment. We'd love to hear your thoughts. Need The canvas gradebook should...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hello, posting this on behalf of an academic:   I have a cohort of 350+ students and would like to use moderated marking with this group, involving a relatively large group of moderators (around 40-50...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Would be helpful to have these dates in the Provisioning Report. I can go to Canvas Data for this info, but that's 24 to 48 hours old. Adding these fields to a live, on-demand, report seems trivial an...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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When you have Synced assignment groups to the SIS, an "Imported" icon (which looks like an arrow on a page) appears next to the Assignment Group name.   This helps Teachers and System Admins quickly i...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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I am a college student. It is currently impossible to configure email rules to handle the wide variety of email being sent from Canvas (such as notifications@instructure.com). Email rules do not permi...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Where an Assignment's availability is the same as the deadline, and a student tries to make a late submission it shows a popup error message, which would be better phrased, but where the availability ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Once a course is concluded, I am limited in downloading student assignments as samples for reports. In a live course, I can export all submissions of an assignment by locating the assignment title and...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Should be able to choose which week you want to view rather than having to scroll through!

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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When the course setting "Let students attach files to discussion" is not selected, students can still attach files to the discussion through the Rich Text Editor. This seems counterintuitive. If we wa...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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At present, if a user is enrolled both as a student and as a teacher in a course site, they are unable to edit and grade New Quizzes.  This has caused significant difficulty and confusion at my instit...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I often find that student wait until the due date to look at an assignment. And, I also notice that the students who "preview" an assignment a few days ahead of time tend to demonstrate more learning ...

Community Participant 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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We absolutely require a keyboard shortcut to submit a comment in SpeedGrader. I technically submitted this idea a few years ago, to have a simple keyboard shortcut (e.g. Ctrl-Enter, similar to most em...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We use student reports to check for participation, important for our accounting of student work at the beginning and throughout the semester.  Participation and not just viewing is required.  As an ad...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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We use the student Access Reports to check for participation, important for our accounting of student work at the beginning and throughout the semester.  Participation and not just viewing is required...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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