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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Problem statement: When students open a quiz in classic quizzes, most non-confidential metadata about the quiz displays including start and until...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Problem statement: In classic, any outcome that has been added to the course can be aligned with question banks. This includes outcomes create...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Problem statement: I am a very big fan of custom badge properties in Canvas Credentials/Badgr Pro. It would be nice to have an expanded set of in...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Credentials Problem statement: In Canvas Credentials/Badgr Pro, one can add custom badge properties to the metadata. Unfortunately, the interface ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Problem statement: I use mostly LTI Tools when creating Canvas Assignments for my 6th-8th Grade students. When an assignment is created using an ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Problem statement: When searching for a subject or person, having a space character at the start of the field for a single-word search causes the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas   Problem statement: Item banks shared to a course does not mean an instructor within that course can view or edit the Item Bank. Proposed solut...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Problem statement: In New Quizzes Reports there are numerous metrics that require knowledge of statistical analysis. Metrics such as RPB (Poin...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Credentials & Badges   Problem statement: When setting up a badge in Badgr, I was offered the choice to aware the badge manually myself or to have...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Problem statement: There is a blind spot in the logging of discussion events. When a discussion post is edited, there is no record of that ev...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Problem statement: When adding a role to the user, it's difficult to quickly scan the list of roles to find the one I want. Sorting this list alp...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Problem statement: It is difficult to track exactly how many students received a certain grade on a Quiz, as it only shows the X-axis in the Q...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Problem statement: I've been using the Word Bank feature of the new quiz fill-in-the-blank type question. It would be more functional if it didn'...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS In Assignments text entered into the HTML editor is auto saved but, in Discussions, it is not. Is there any chance that this functionality is...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Credentials Problem statement: When sharing a badge to LinkedIn, a learner needs to select the Issuing Organization. If they fail to do so, the de...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Problem statement: Many of our students with IEPs have the right to retake a test or quiz, but only the questions they had incorrect the first ti...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas   Problem statement: The calendar currently does not (no longer) allow precise timing when creating a new event: it only takes half hour interval...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas   Problem statement: The new dark mode for the Canvas apps is a nice feature that allows users to customise their Canvas experience on the mobile...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Problem statement: Having a duplicate button/option on Global announcements would help speed up publishing announcements instead of copying an...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS I understand that there's a demand for anonymity in discussion forums, and that it shouldn't be possible to disable anonymity once it's set. H...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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