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It would be great for Admins to be able to reorder the listing of Terms and how they appear in their drop-down list. For example, I want to be able to drag or reorder the list so when I choose them fo...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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For essay questions in New Quizzes it appears the browser spell check is disabled by default.  It would be great if this were also possible to disable the spell check for fill in the blank questions. ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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At least for admins, it would be helpful to see who created an assignment. There are often several instructuctors in one course.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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We have many different instructors/teachers in one course. It would be helpful if assignments are linked to one specific instructor, or several specific instructors. This way, only the relevant instru...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Sometimes a student accidentally uploads the wrong file. Instead of resubmitting a new file, and thus having submitted two files, it would be better to be able to delete your submission!

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When the course code is identical to the course name, would it be possible to just use one course name, instead of distinguishing between long name and short name (i.e. course code)? Having this disti...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Our students are submitting assignments on a daily basis in Canvas. It would be really nice if they could filter their grades by the status of assignments such as Missing. Then students would only see...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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For basic skills and ESL students, uploading files is a barrier in and of itself. They can do text entry; teachers need to be able to annotate writing line by line. Add annotations to text entry boxes...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In Canvas inbox we should be able to click on a student's name (the sender) and be navigated directly to the info on that student (gradebook, etc.). This should also go for the course (course page). T...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I often need to free up space in my Files page (within its folder structure), and I find myself downloading a large image file, reducing its size using my Windows app, and then re-uploading the file a...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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A setting I would find very helpful would be to allow or prevent late submissions based on the due date.  I have stopped using the available/unavailable date in assignments for a few reasons. Mainly, ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Please make a one-click path back to Home page from gradebook.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I'm really pleased with most of the new quiz engine, except for a glaring flaw: Matching and Categorization-type quizzes not having the rich text editor enabled for question/category and answer fields...

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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Speedgrader should display ungrouped discussions, or not allow students to post to a group discussion until they are assigned to a group. The present state allows a third configuration that is broken....

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When a student sends an email/message in Canvas, it currently only shows the original section title. This title is often not helpful and later renamed by teachers (ex: Period 2). Can the renamed secti...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When assigning an assignment to multiple groups of students, I would love to be able to simply copy and paste a list of student names into the "assign to" field.    I can not create separate sections ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When writing a message to a parent, Observer, it can be very difficult to know who their parent is exactly without having to first search through the People page. The People page does not allow us to ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Currently, it appears the Student Interactions Report only shows grades in percentages, and will not use the custom grading scheme. Whichever grading scheme is selected for the course (including custo...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When students re-submit their work, the original feedback from the teacher is saved. Additionally, students can indicate they've 'accepted' or 'rejected' the feedback (similar to Goggle Docs Comments)...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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