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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. Custom "From" name should also b...

Community Member 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. Rubrics, Quizzes, Outcomes and G...

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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. Gradebook, grading schemes and d...

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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. The name of the course changes d...

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I would love it if notifications of discussion board posts would say who made the post. I use this in a small class, and this feature would let me loosely keep tabs on who is participating without hav...

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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.   Structured content by language...

Community Explorer 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. Titles of activities or pages in...

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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. The name and description of L...

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Videos downloaded, not created, on Studio need to have some sort of editing feature available to add lines, blurring, etc. to the video.  This is useful not only as an editing tool to go back and fix ...

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YouTube videos uploaded to Canvas Studio need to have some option to carry over the subtitles from YouTube or even an option to manually type out subtitles. For personal videos, this isn't a problem, ...

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As Sys Admin in Canvas, I am getting feedback from our Field Test teachers about having to see so many assignments when they go to sync in canvas now.  It shows all the assignments from all time and h...

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The text box in comments should be bigger to allow easy writing as we are using pencils to add comments in the Canvas Teacher app. Currently the text box fits only a word or two, it would be good if i...

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Average marks info is not displayed on the Canvas Teacher app (tested on iOS and Android) like it is on a PC. This feature is used a lot by our markers and they are having to revert to a PC/browser to...

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We have students who audit a course. We don't want them and the teacher to know they don't have to do the assignment, but if a student chooses to do it, they can.  Excusing assignments shows the teach...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We would like the default email notification setting for “Content Updates” and “Files” to be off, so that students would intentionally opt in per course if they would like these updates. Some example ...

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When you create an assignment or quiz in Canvas, all dates (available, due, and until dates) are null.  If published in this state, the item has no dates listed anywhere and is always available for st...

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Currently you can only search Announcements and find a match if the Announcement title includes the search word. Please add the ability to Search that will pull up announcements that contain the word ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Adding a field to the accounts.csv file for a template course would be *very* helpful, particularly large school divisions that handle settings for all subaccounts (schools) centrally. I would like to...

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In New Quizzes, when you upload/embed an image as part of a question, it renames the file.  For example, I had embedded a picture of Olaf from the movie "Frozen" into a question.  The original file na...

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Recently I learned that filtering the display in the Grades tool by section also applies the same section filter in the SpeedGrader. This is not intuitive at all and makes for a bad user experience. T...

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