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I like SpeedGrader.  To make it faster, please move the "Next" arrow near the score input box.  I input a grade into the box and then move the mouse up to the top of the screen.  Not a big deal for on...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In the Speed Grader, when I'm viewing assignments that have multiple files uploaded, there is no indication about which file I'm currently looking at. Please incorporate a marker (title on the viewer ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I'd like to give both faculty and students the option to re-order the items on their To Do list in terms of their personal priority. As an instructor (and I assume a student) we have the option to rem...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When reopening a new quiz attempt, it is not clear how much time remains to a student.  I propose that the time that will be allowed to a student whose quiz is reopened be clearly displayed on the sam...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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The "reopen" a current attempt option in moderate restarts students with the time they have remaining at the time when I click the button.  However, with remote teaching, coordinating that the quiz ne...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I would like to suggest that each discussion board created have it's own attachment setting instead of it being all or nothing.  I have some instructors that don't want that feature available in all d...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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SinceCanvas Deploy Notes (2020-09-23) , the New RCE Links button creates an external link as its default action. It would be better for the default action to open the Course Links tab. External links ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Please include the ability for teachers to select "View Feedback Once After Each Attempt" in New Quizzes! If we lose this feature with New Quizzes, I don't know what we are going to do! I'm adding thi...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Please offer the option to restrict students' answer selection to X number of choice selections and offer partial points for correct answers ONLY without deducting points for incorrect answers. The pe...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Feature request:  automatically highlight grades that are above maximum with some bright color to alert the teacher that they may have made a data entry error.  The text notification at the top of the...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Certain settings for new quizzes are controlled from the assignment settings screen.  This includes the due date and availability dates, and point value of the overall quiz.  It is understandably diff...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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When I write a quiz full of essay questions, canvas cannot autograde it.  That is expected.  However, when it autogrades as a zero the students panic.  The work around to set the quiz to a manual grad...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Currently the rich content editor strips the srcset and sizes attribute from the img tag. These features have established cross browser support and make it easier to include responsive images.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Teachers need to be able to see what they've shared with each other. Not in Commons, but just sent to each other. We can see what has been shared with us, but not what we've shared (sent) to each othe...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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If a student misses a deadline for an assignment, the assignment's status is automatically marked as missing. There should also be an email message or notification that is sent to the student to notif...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In order to see assignments with a Missing status, students must click on Grades. Instead, the list of missing assignments should be on their front page. The idea is to have a separate "Missing" assig...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Currently mastery paths only has 3 break out options, meaning you can only set up 3 paths.  I would like to see mastery paths allow for more break out options.

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently Mastery Paths only allows you to open assignments or pages.  But here is how I use them: Student takes a quiz.  Student passes quiz and gets a congratulations page Student almost passes quiz...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Canvas has a feature which gives a warning when the student is running out of time (60 minutes left, 5 minutes left, 1 minute left). However, this warning is a small pop-up that is open for five secon...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Headers can be used to subdivide the activities in modules, but each header makes the module longer and longer.  To reduce scrolling for students, I suggest allowing the headers to be expanded and col...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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