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The new gradebook is amazing! We love the filtering capabilities! But something has come to my attention. The gradebook defaults to showing grades only for the current grading period UNLESS you go Vie...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Currently, global announcements are sorted by end date, with the longest running announcement at the top. As we kick-off our semester start, we're relying heavily on announcements to communicate infor...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When inserting external links into modules, can we get the ability to schedule the availability to the students like assignments?  There are review videos that I want the student's to see will be avai...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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As the title says, it is becoming more and more essential to have the option as an instructor to select that only graded assignments appear in the grades page (or, even better, choose which assignment...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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As a student, instructors can add assignments to the calendar so that we can see. Once we complete the assignment, the assignment title on the calendar can be crossed out. It would be helpful to have ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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On this page "https://sjsu.instructure.com/courses/<course_id>/users" add a column (or columns) to show which group a student has been assigned to. At the moment we have: Name, Login ID, SIS ID, Secti...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to set my default gradebook view. For example, I prefer to always use "Module first to last" for each gradebook. In the gradebook settings, I can't set this as my preferred vie...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I love the media recording submissions. I just wish there was an option to pause rather than stop and rerecord. I do simulated conversations in my World Language classroom. I would like them to pause ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When I add people to my course, I see a setting that allows them to interact with students in their section only. I don't know what checking this box would mean since it appears that they would still ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When a student joins a self-sign-up group in the People/Groups area a 'visit' link appears next to the name of the group they have joined. They can click on this link to enter the group. However, if t...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In the New Analytics tool it would be very useful to be able to personalize the content of the messages to include the student's name. For example: Hello {{First_Name}}, I wanted to congratulate you o...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Under Permissions, we can prevent students from sending messages to the entire class OR to individual course members. We must have an option to allow students to message their teacher! There needs to ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Here's something that's irk'ed me for a few years... We allow access by Students and Instructors to the last 9 semesters of courses.  We always have this issue for Instructors when a Term Ends: "I hav...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We add users to courses using the People/+People button inside of our courses.For users who are brand new to Canvas - this sends them an email inviting them to register for a Canvas account. The user ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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The admin tools - view notifications feature is really helpful - unfortunately - it doesn't show communication to pending users.When you add a student to a course (who is brand new to Canvas) by using...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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All courses provisioned have the Discussion settings > Allow students to "create discussion topics". We would like it set to NO (un checked) that students can NOT create discussion topics...but facult...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It is easy to assign an assignment to select students. However, rather than just show "everyone" on assignments, it would be great if it could list all students in the course with a check box next to ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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All sections are currently visible to all students in places such as the Inbox. This means we cannot use sections for students with additional needs as their status is confidential. So, for elements l...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be extremely helpful if teachers could set various course navigation options with view/no view access for observers. One example would be Zoom integration. The teacher likely wants students t...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Our university used Moodle for many years, and faculty were able to limit the number of files each student could upload for an assignment. This was useful so that each student would upload the same nu...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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