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Two staff were editing a document (proof reading) at basically the same time, and only the edits made by the last person to save the document were updated.  Is it possible to have an alert on the edit...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Our admins routinely add users to past courses. Generally, these are instructors of the next semester of a course or course admins who need to get information for a faculty member. Sometimes it is a s...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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It would be great if the "Text Header" box in modules could be expandable. I like to use long headers, and they are hard to edit in the current layout.  

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I'd like to create longer lists of matching questions and have New Quizzes select a certain number from those for the student. There doesn't seem a way to do this, except for creating random blocks of...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I wish that something showed up in the grid (spreadsheet-like) gradebook view when a comment has been added for a score. It could be, for instance, something like the red dot that is visible next to u...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I feel theres a large option thats an easy win for Canvas missing at the moment and that is pre-designed html elements that can be readily slotted into pages by staff.  This is currently provided at c...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Please find away to make the behavior between click the assignment link in the To-do List  versus clicking the link that is  deployed in Modules or Assignments when there Module Requirements enabled. ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I would love a way that when you look at all the modules for each week there could be a check mark or a change in color for in the module is already done so I don't have to go back in a look each time...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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As an instructor, I use backwards design to develop the learning content within my courses. While I can add outcomes to assignments with rubrics and quizzes, I am not able to connect outcomes to addit...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This request is for institutions that do local LTI tool development.  Like Instructure's Prd, Test, and Beta envirobments, most schools maintain at least two and often three separate environments for ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Canvas is an awesome LMS. With this suggestion post, we would like to ask Instructor to consider a sequential visibility setting that allows modules to be visible by current week automatically. This w...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It appears that faculty are still unable to organize Quizzes by category. This is important so PLEASE add headings or categories to Quizzes. Having sample quizzes mixed up with midterm and final exams...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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As users of standards-based grading, we would like to be able to do the following in New Analytics: See a graph (and data table) of students' progress toward mastery of outcomes (individually and coll...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When prospective learners register themselves on the waitlist for a paid course in Catalog, they aren’t automatically enrolled into the course when a spot opens. They receive an email notification of ...

Community Participant 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. Need Replace the first column of...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Background: The table Learning Mastery (under Grades) is a good tool to see the students' current status in a course. In my country the different course criteria are the deciding factors for the final...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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For LTI 1.1 there was support for environment variables (https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.tools_xml.html#test_env_settings) so when beta/test refreshed, our LTI tools would point to beta/te...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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It is a very straightforward process to add a user to a course in the course list view. An authorized user (Admin) can click on the plus button enter the user's email address, login id, or sis id and ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to be able to change the to-do dates like we can with assignment dates.  this would help when faculty copy a course to a new shell. they can adjust all the assignment dates but many t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Could you please make the 'global menu bar' on the left side a different color in the beta so we know we are in it?

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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