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Please add a feature to the Gradebook where users/faculty can color code the gradebook based on criteria that they set (rules). Yes you have the new analytics tool but this would be very helpful to ha...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Groups in Canvas Studio were recently made available. I know it is possible to manually create groups, but is it possible to automate the creation of groups? E.g. I have 30 departments I want to creat...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi, everyone! Canvas Admin here.  Today I had an instructor that unexpectedly received a new CRN. Before her old shell expired, we were able to retrieve the zip files for two of her ungraded assignmen...

Community Member 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 Allow to create a custom ro...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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  Here I've selected hide courses with 0 students and show only blueprints. Blueprints can not have students, so I can't see any bluerints. If you click "show only blueprints" it should turn "hide 0 ...

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On the course-level notifications screen users can completely opt-out of notifications from a particular course or customize individual notification types. I learned today that a user who had opted ou...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Often as an instructor, I want to post a series of threaded questions for students to reply to.   This keeps discussions organized and allows student/instructor choice.     When these questions are po...

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I have seen many ideas about the Moderate page in New Quizzes but not seen this mentioned.  In classic quizzes, if you cross-list a course and then only assign the quiz to a section, then when you go ...

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I would like to receive email notifications when my students leave submission comments, but not when my TAs leave submission comments. Sometimes I'll grade an assignment three weeks after it was submi...

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I like to give students a studio video as feedback in Quizzes. It works great in Classic quizzes, but apparently the studio quiz isn't compatible with the feedback box in New Quizzes. I've been workin...

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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. Please find here improvements re...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Please change the way Pages section of Canvas courses load.  Currently, not all pages are automatically loaded when click Pages link, instead user has to constantly keep scrolling to get to see all th...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I would like suggest adding a checkbox at the top of each Module (right next to the "Publish/Unpublish" checkbox so we can quickly lock and unlock an entire Module at a time.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Working in Higher Ed means that a lot of the same course content is used session after session. When copying a course blueprint, there is a setting called "Adjust events and due dates > Shift dates". ...

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I am responsible to create all of the course associations from our Blue Prints.  I don't see a way to "Lock ALL of the Modules" in one fail swoop. It would be a huge time saver for myself and probably...

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I would like to have instructure add a warning dialog box when a non-empty folder is trying to be deleted. Currently if you delete a folder all you get is the dialog box to confirm deletion of the fol...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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When moderating tests, it takes about 3 clicks per student to regrade.  Could you please have a student name and dropdown box on this page like in your “Quick Scoring?” Currently, we have to click an ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When a faculty requests students to upload a file to an upgraded Discussion post, if their User Files is full (50 MB), they receive an error that says nothing about why they can't add their file. "Fil...

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Problem:  I get a notification of a grade on browser. There is a dot by grades within my course module. I click the link to "Grades". When I get there I do not see any kind of relevant information or ...

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Could you please create a 'Find a Link Tool" so that we can search for a link  (that we previously made on a page, assignment etc) so that we change the link, move the link or remove the link? This wi...

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