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Hello, Sometimes we may have typos in a quiz and because of that, or other reasons, we need to add extra time for everyone while the quiz is in progress. So far this cannot be done since the due date/...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Currently, as an instructor, after we make changes on an assignment page and hit save, we can't recover it. That would be interesting to have access to either a history of edits (version control?) or ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We have students taking upwards of 12-13 courses in a trimester. That can be a considerable amount of assignments, quizzes and discussions. It's my understanding that the To Do list only shows 7 items...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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At the moment, in students' to-do list in Canvas, all assignment types, including quizzes, show the due date. This makes sense for most assignment types, but for quizzes, where the due date indicates ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Adding the "grade" column and or completion checkmark to the course summary screen that is embedded on the syllabus would allow students to quickly see what assignments they have already completed whe...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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As an instructor, I have students post discussion questions and responses each week. If they posted something, they get the points. However, there is no way to automatically grade these-- I have to ma...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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To adjust differentiated due dates and other settings with New Quizzes, it is not easy to navigate to the "More Options" page. From within the Quiz Builder, you must return to Canvas and the Assignmen...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Using a rubric to grade in Canvas can be an exercise in frustration. Even the official documentation (How do I use a rubric to grade submissions in SpeedGrader?) starts by having you resize the parts ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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There is a problem when you export the grades of the gradebook to a csv file. It has to do with the decimal numbers (the comma or the point as decimal symbol). (I am not talking about the separator wi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When designing a quiz, at the moment we can have either all questions on one page or one question at a time.   It would be useful to group questions together so that different questions appear on diff...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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What I want to be able to do is attach questions to a stimulus, then create an item bank of the stimuli with the associated questions fixed to each specific stimuli, to randomise the questions. This f...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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When creating modules for a K-5 environment or even a UDL design of a module it is best practice for a designer to chunk the data into small amounts of data on each "page" of the module.  Also, a UDL ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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The People list in the admin area of an account or subaccount shows Name, Email, SIS ID and Last Login.The Last Login field shows the date of the last time a user actually carried out a login, but as,...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice, especially for support staff, if we could search on name fields and partial email addresses in the enroll dialogue.  This way if we know the person's name but not their exact user id...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I would like to have the option to remove or hide points from assignments.   This would help draw the focus towards formative comments.  The majority of assignments at our school are graded complete/i...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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In modules I indent assignments that build off of each other. I recently learned that this does not lock the assignment until the above has been completed. The only way to do this is through the "must...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I strongly suggest that Canvas return to (what I think was) the default of 1) having a Canvas multiple choice quiz question include 5 answer choices; and 2) have Canvas use the current number of choic...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Many schools' academic policies are defined so that student grades are reduced based on weeks For example, our current academic policy is that students will receive a score reduction of -10% if it is ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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For  schools that do not have the resources to use Canvas Data:    Help Canvas administrators assess usage of Classic Quizzes during the transition to New Quizzes by adding a reporting tool to "school...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Canvas creates a default assignment group called "assignments". If an instructor is not using weighted groups or does not have another need for the "assignments" group, the instructor would like to om...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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