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tl;dr When migrating Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes, any files attached to quiz questions get renamed.  Attached file names should not be renamed during migration. More Context I recently migrated a C...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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It seems that in the Grades tool, the only indicator of a dropped grade is a colored background on corresponding cells.  The color is barely noticeable by someone who can see it, and it is not a suffi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In Canvas, I have to open another browser tab so I can refer to my instructions to students while I'm grading. In BbLearn these would appear in an expandable window at the top of the thing I was gradi...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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According to my testing, the Categorization question type in New Quizzes is not very accessible to either of the following groups of students: A sighted student using keyboard only - There are no visi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When printing a quiz it would be great if it automatically included a prompt near the top for the student to write their name. Something like “Name:_____________________” Thanks

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Request: Remove the reference to "artifacts" in the Apply Score to Ungraded dialog Explanation: I am excited about the ability to Apply Score to Ungraded Assignments. This will save me the hassle of h...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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This idea is to give instructors the ability to filter the student list in the gradebook by the amount of time they spent on a given assessment from the sort by option available from the grade column ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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The idea is to sort the student list in the People page by Total Activity (see screenshot for reference) – to ultimately identify those who have spent the shortest amount of time in the course. Image ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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There are a few reasons for regrading a quiz. These include needing to: change the correct answerchange points value for the whole itemchange points values on individual answers (if applicable) Curren...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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The 2022-03-30 code deploy added the option to edit times in the Assignment Bulk Editor. It would be helpful (and consistent with design in other areas) for the date picker that opens when a field is ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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It would be great if SpeedGrader would display assignment word count on a mobile device, like it does on a PC. Currently word count is only available in the doc viewer using a browser.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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We have had multiple requests by teachers in our district for assignments marked as "Missing" to stay on the student's to-do list until the assignment is turned in. Can this feature please be added? N...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When enabled, Rubrics, Item Banks, Attendance, and New Analytics are visible to faculty, but not to students. Since the visibility icon is supposed to indicated what elements are not visible to ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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It would be good to see consistency when using the speed grader or when editing grades for individual students.  One way allows adding attachments, editing comments, and deleting comments the other wa...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In my current course management system, it is easy (one click) to set up a Quiz where a given number of questions appear on one page. The only option on Canvas is to show each question separately.I wa...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice if teachers could create groups of questions and then assign a set of these groups at random to students.  This is different from the current arrangement with question groups because ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When moderating a "new quizzes" assessment in Canvas, there are options to filter the view (No Attempts Left, Attempts in Progress, Submitted, Autograding Failed." However, there is no option for "No ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently, when using Multiple Grading Periods, you can override a student's grade for each individual grading period in a course. This is a great feature we use a lot - however, when running reports,...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Our institution has over 1000 terms on one of our instances, and the terms menu on the Courses page has become pretty non-functional. There are times it does not load at all, or when it does load it c...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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The new Equation Editor is nice, but we've lost a couple of features that are quite useful if you enter a lot of equations into your courses. 1.) In the previous version, once you selected "Advanced" ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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