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This idea is to add internal prerequisites within modules based on completion of all the activities under headers used to subdivide the module. In some cases sequential completion of individual activi...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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There needs to be a way to copy assignments to multiple courses instead of one at a time. It is time-consuming for teachers. Going to Commons is time-consuming as well. We should be able to create an ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When I use the Rich Text Editor to alter text on Assignments, Pages, Discussions, Announcements, and old Quizzes, I frequently use its Equation Editor. When I open the Equation Editor, I would like to...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We need to be able to select a batch of items to delete, duplicate, move,  publish or whatever in one action.  Like cleaning out our email inbox.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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As an instructor, it would be really great if I could write a message to my students in inbox, and schedule it to send at a later time. I love this feature in gmail, and would like to see it here as w...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Our university use courses that are open to all University staff and  students and are not required to be enrolled in these courses as long as they can log in to Canvas. In the previous version of Cou...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Has this ever happened to you? You create a great assignment; students start submitting; you start grading; and then you realize: you forgot to set your preferred posting policy! You should have remem...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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This idea is to create an assignment group option that always excludes all assignments within that group from the gradebook. This would turn the entire assignment group into a collection of practice a...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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This idea is to allow an option in assignment group settings to exclude the group from the late penalty. Some activities are programmed as not counted towards the grade, by using weighted grades and a...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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This idea is to focus the late policy on graded assignments.  Those activities that are marked "do not count towards the grade" should not be subject to the late penalty.  Seeing a late penalty sends ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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After transitioning to new quizzes this semester, I discovered that there is a major flaw in the interaction between new quizzes, the late penalty, and module requirements. Although a new quiz can be ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Allow Admins to bulk delete courses from the main account and sub-account level.  Currently, need to open the course, go to settings and click Delete, then confirm Delete.  This is a tedious process i...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Class nicknames should work in more than just the courses menu on the sidebar.  The official class names are a long string of letters and numbers and it takes a long time to figure out which class is ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Scenario: It's not uncommon for faculty to try importing from their old shells and get the entire course. Then, in the process of cleaning up the mess, they delete more than they should. Not only does...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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As outlined in the Canvas Guides (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-remove-an-enrollment-from-a-course/ta-p/742), "If an enrollment is created via SIS, only admins can remov...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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The rich content editor strips out inline svg. It would be nice to use svg element which has wide cross browser support. https://caniuse.com/#search=svg

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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My colleagues and I are using peer review forms. Usually I would have to ask students to download , then fill out and then attach to the comment box within the peer- review assignment. I wonder if man...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Currently, there is no way to organize quizzes into groups under the "Quizzes" tab in Canvas. A lot of the faculty at my school give multiple types of quizzes (e.g. exams, surveys, participation quizz...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When working with inclusion classes where some students need the assessment read to them and others do not, not being able to set their questions to the same order is problematic.   I know that I can ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When giving an assignment to a few students it would be great to be able to paste a comma separated list of names into the "Assign To" box. This would be very similar to pasting email addresses into a...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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