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In Blackboard, the node hierarchy (basically the sub-account structure for Bb Learn) allowed non-unique nodes (sub-accounts). This is because the node identifier was build by combining the parent and ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Since apps can be difficult (or impossible) to restore when deleted at the site level, it would be nice if there was a disable feature.  If this prevented new instances of the app being used while pre...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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At the end of the school year, many videos in studio need to be deleted and a bulk delete function would be so much better than having to click each one three times to delete.  I could also put videos...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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If an Assignment is added to a module, then this module is displayed under this assignment on the Assignment Index Page The suggestion would be that there should be an option to turn off the display o...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would like to see a count of number of files added to the Course Storage Report. We would like to clean up courses that have 100s of unused flies (or thousands), so one field in this report we could...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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As a Portfolium Educator Tools administrator only the Member, Major, Grad Year, and Type fields display in the User Directory https://edu.portfolium.com/network/users To display email, start date, and...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Is there a reason to hide the personal action logs and analytical data from users? If there isn't then it would be useful for induction to present their usage data and log to users as it would make th...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I have built assignment with a deadline and no late submissions. Students miss the deadline anyway. Quizzes automatically submit on the deadline. Can an option be added to automatically submit on the ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Please can you put tabs for saving, publishing, etc at both the top and bottom of the page? the current format is not at all user friendly.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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A feature that allows us to  copy an announcement in one section and paste it to another, and change the date for the new section instead of creating a new announcement each time.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Parent Observers should not be able to see the student's assignment other than the grade and/or feedback from the instructor. Giving observers access to the work student's have turned in feels like a ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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The K-12 district I work in, and many of the districts around me, have made the move to using our LMS as the place to house our day-to-day grades. With that transition, we have noticed a number of gra...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Please update Link Validator to be a more useful tool. I am suggesting that the Canvas Link Validator be upgraded to be a more useful Tool.   Perhaps using AI logic to "Automatically" fix a broken lin...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When a faculty member needs support on a student issue that they were notified about through the Canvas inbox, there is no way for them to respond to the student and copy in my support email without t...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Current behavior: a student contacts faculty through Canvas Inbox. Faculty gets email notification, logs into Canvas, responds to student. Student replies, faculty gets notification, but no longer nee...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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From the Courses page, when I need to check on the course enrollments, I have to click the course name or the cog wheel to get into the course, then locate and click the People link on the left nav. P...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi, please add a nudge setting to discussions that would auto-notify students to contribute before or after a certain amount of time/days.

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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It is important for our PLC work to know the names of students who miss specific questions in New Quizzes. This option was available in Classic Quizzes. Can you please add the ability to see student n...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Similar to Assignments where you can see what modules an assignment might be listed, it would be nice to have the ability when in Quiz Banks to see if it is associated/linked to a particular quiz.

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In the Canvas app for smartphones it shows you a To-Do List that lists items that you haven't yet completed that are due within the next week or so. This is a useful reminder. What would also be usefu...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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