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In the Canvas SpeedGrader you can see whether or not a student has viewed the feedback added to files submitted with an assignment.  The Canvas API provides data about whether or not feedback has been...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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The ability to preview what a module of individually published resources would look like to a student BEFORE publishing the module itself. At present you need to actually publish the module before "st...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When finding files in the "Files" environment, the ability to search for a file then "Go to Folder"; this would make file management much easier

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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As it says in the Instructor Guide: You cannot use a rubric for grading in quizzes, since quiz scores are calculated based on the number of points assigned to each quiz question. But this is what I wa...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Additional field in the Grading scheme, outside from the numerical scale. (e.g.: New field Not done) Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same...

Community Explorer 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 Add a new setting in the ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Group sets in Canvas group assignments are often difficult to set up correctly. If steps are not performed in exactly the correct order, SpeedGrader can be impacted in ways that make the grading proce...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Background: Many of our university's courses use multiple sections per course, which are generated (and for combined courses automatically cross-listed) by our own integration with Canvas based on how...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Today we received a message from an instructor: I am looking to import material from a previous module/Canvas "course" to this year's version. If I choose "copy Canvas course" or "Canvas course export...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Getting to a course calendar from a course is a small link and makes it feel as though course calendars are a lower-importance, de-prioritized part of Canvas. A way to help this would be to make it ea...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I was disappointed to see that the "Text Headers" that you can add to modules are just spans, they aren't a heading tag. It would improve accessibility if these were heading tags There is "<h2 class="...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I am a Canvas admin for a college and recently had two faculty members that have the Canvas role of "teacher" not be able to access commons.  One has an active Spring 2022 enrollment and does not have...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Could you please include a smaller font size option for the free text annotations in Speedgrader. The smallest font size option is too large.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When in "student view" of a Canvas course I have the option to select the calendar associated with this course via the following selection:             But a similar option is not available when I vi...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Feature Request: Add in the ability for teachers to duplicate a New Quiz when they are working in the Modules tab. For assignments, pages, etc. a teacher can duplicate them when working in the Modules...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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at my university, we have a faculty lead model. the lead faculty creates the course in canvas and adds the teaching faculty members to the course so they can import the content into their section. onc...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to import course categories when doing course import.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Please allow the option to import course card when importing a course.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This year we have been experiencing an error message for many instructors that may have mistakenly given the wrong student a grade and then remove it. When the instructors go to sync, they get a vague...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Request:Show Local and Course times in a Canvas course's Settings > Course Details tab > Participation area when a user's account's time zone is different than their course's time zone (to have featur...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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