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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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Allow setup of least passing grade for each grading standard. Just as a range of percentages are tied to a certain grade, a grade/range of grades should be tied a boolean status - pass or fail. Exampl...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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As a teacher, I'd like the ability to change the question type after I have already created the question (like I was able to do with the Classic Quizzes).  For example, after I've created a multiple c...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to have at the Admin level that when a student has an IEP for let us say 1.5x or 2x on their exams or assignments that we can go in and put that info in at a student level that automa...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice if the New Rich Content Editor could have new image options to add elements to images or objects in general, such as: Borders With color selection PaddingMarginsImage Alignment In lin...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I currently have courses set up for each of my classes. Over the course of teaching them, several classes may share the same curricular content. Our team has build a shared collaborative course in a m...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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If a teacher enables Conferences and/or Collaborations in the course navigation menu, students are able to create their own Conferences and Collaborations at the course level. You can't stop them from...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I've been writing make-up exams for several specific students recently, and I get this pop-up every time I change something in the quiz.

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We need the ability to max canvas gradebook averages at 100%, regardless of what grades the teacher has added.  We have a SIS integration with Renweb/Facts. We have several awesome students who get 1...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Currently when you nickname a course and then enter that course, the nickname shows in the breadcrumb trail in the course, but the browser tab still shows the course code rather than nickname. For ins...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I'd like to suggest that assignments with the anonymous grading option enabled should continue to hide/anonymize student names in SpeedGrader after posting an assignment's grades. The current behavior...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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There are many requests for Text to Speech for Accessibility in Canvas, but the reverse is needed as well.  We have found that students can use Speech to Text on Text Entry Assignment submissions usin...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice if instructors could rearrange the columns in the gradebook column by column (without having to drag columns in the gradebook) and without having to group them.  When there are numero...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to have required, but non-graded/evaluated responses in quizzes. For example, I like to use quizzes as exit-tickets or quick check-for-understandings where I ask a content specific qu...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In Recent Activity View, observer accounts are not able to see Announcements. This is a key feature to send out course information, and for K-12 parents who are enrolled in a lot of courses as observe...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Currently, if your institution has a theme style sheet, the styles are not viewable/applied in the Rich Content Editor while in Edit mode.  Only upon saving are you able to see styles applied from the...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Ever more we are seeing quality in design being an issue for accreditation.  Let's face it, the ability for an institution to have a common look and feel from course to course is a problem.  Content i...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It would be very helpful if the "+" buttons for adding items into modules and other things stayed on the page with me as I scrolled down the page. Some of my modules get lengthy and to have to scroll ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In our school district we have been utilizing the TCC (thin common cartridges) for each of the textbooks.  Teachers load these entire textbooks into their course and when they go to the gradebook, bec...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I've just been using Canvas as a student again (while also working with an instructional designer type role with it, too) and found the Announcements page frustrating. Each announcement only shows the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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