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We love the functionality that allows teachers to message students directly from Speedgrader.  We would like to request an option for a student to message a teacher from an assignment or quiz without ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We would like you to consider adding increased filtering to the student side of the gradebook so that you can filter by missing, late, excused, etc.  As the year proceeds further and the gradebook lis...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We would like for the calendar events to have the ability to provide pop-up reminders on the device being used when an event is about to begin or when an assignment is due.  As more students are movin...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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There is some valuable information about course statistics available via the UI including the running totals which show the total number of active students and number of unaccepted students.  https://...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This idea applies to the browser interface of Canvas If a section filter is applied in the markbook this filter is also applied to the speed grader. This has caused confusion for many of my teachers, ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently, Canvas Grade Periods must be set at the Account Admin level. However, this doesn’t work in a K-12 environment.  We have schools that enroll students in courses that run by year, semester, o...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When a student submits a paper that is connected to Portfolium they cannot grade it in speed grader, which is quite a pain because then the professor has to create two assignments so they can mark the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Could you please create an option for all late work to simply revert to an "Ungraded" Status instead of get a particular score? This would make a lot more sense to both my students and me! Thank-you!

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When adding Module completion requirements for a quiz, the options are confusing. Why does it say "submit the assignment" if we are creating a requirement for a quiz?Or is there some reason the code i...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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As part of my grading process I will often leave students feedback in Canvas and expect them to use that feedback to improve and resubmit their work. Previously, I used to be able to easily see my ent...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When a new conference is created in a course students are sent a content update notification. The link in the notification goes to the conferences url in the course. At this point students are redirec...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When an Assignment is created, it would be beneficial to be able to have a drop-down menu to select a Module to place the assignment in. This could work as the assignment category.  After creating an ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We use Canvas to operate an entirely virtual high school with 100+ courses. While each course is unique, some assignment categories are consistent across all courses. For example, each course has a fi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Please consider a feature that allows teachers (or canvas admins) the ability to select a default too for use in speedgrader for iOS. For example, if a teacher collects assignments of the type "file u...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I would like to suggest a way to export TA & instructor information from the People screen in a course.  There are I times I need to enroll the same TA's and /or instructors in another course and it w...

Community Explorer 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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Instead of having to check the box "Allow use in Mastery Paths" for each individual page you want to include in a Mastery Path, it would be nice if Pages were automatically an option for what you can ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In Canvas, currently, there is not a way to manage an item bank from the Admin. level. This creates a problem when trying to edit questions that were pulled from the item bank, especially in blueprint...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Right now any user in an admin account role can adjust the scores in New Quizzes for any teacher at a school site.  We use Grade Guardian which allows account admins to access specific dashboards of s...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Teachers should be able to add time to a timed quiz after the time is up. In a face to face class, if a student has been working diligently on a quiz or test and they ask to have additional time, I gi...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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