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Idea So, the idea is pretty straightforward: allowing links on the course navigation to be grouped into submenus.   Reason Why? Any more questions?   Idea Breakdown Grouping Concept While the most ba...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Currently, a use can view their file listings by individual folders or they can search for files by name. I'm suggesting they be given another search option: find files by size.   Consider the user cl...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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In addition to the anonymous annotations and grading it would make sense that the next logical step would be to also have anonymous rubric marking. anonymous assessment rubrics* anonymous marking

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This image shows the exact layout of an assignment when using Google Doc Cloud assignments when you are trying to embed or add other needed information in a page. As you can see it gets very cut off ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi   I have a request for Speedgrader   Is it possible to know how much time a marker spend marking assignments (eg. in the figure below 00:14 means 14 minutes)? Has this idea being discussed before? ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Table/Image Advanced Properties  The Table, cell and rowadvanced properties option is a limiting design. There is a  dropdown list, without the ability to customize the html, which was available in th...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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On Canvas on the right-side bar that appears when an assignment is clicked, there are the colored options like None, Late, Missing, and Excused. We also need the option of "Hold." Oftentimes I need to...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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As an instructor, when I make some major adjustments to my grade book, every little thing that happens to the grade book "dings" the student's notifications.  There should be a feature to allow some c...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When creating a quiz, it would be really nice to have a text box for Teacher's Notes.  This feature would allow us to make notes about each quiz question (i.e. what chapter or article the question is ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In old quizzes and new_quizzes it appears that Google Doc Files cannot be uploaded for the file upload question in a quiz.  This has also been confirmed in Why can't I select the google doc to upload ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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As faculty teach more courses over the years, their All-Courses tab in Global Navigation gets filled with courses from previous semesters. As an admin, I find this very difficult to navigate, especial...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Teachers would like to be able to view the submission date and time timestamp for each quiz and assignment in one location without having to scroll through and look at each student's submission in the...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I would like to see some improvements to the "Announcements" tab. Specifically, it would be nice to be able to:     view all announcements on one page with an option to expand all announcements   Use ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi Canvas friends,    I love the "message students who" feature in the Gradebook. It's great. When I send out a message I usually get at least 1/3rd of my high school students to instantly get working...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Your new "Assignment Allowed Attempts" feature is useful and aligns the behavior of assignments and quizzes in Canvas. Please consider adding the option of per-user-reattempts for assignments. This ca...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We need the ability to tag our students, especially in areas like Chat. Sometimes we need to get our student's attention, to make sure they see things (esp. with so many courses online), or to get a t...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Many of our courses allow a student to take the course as a letter grade or P/F.  Currently, we have no way to account for this in the Canvas gradebook since every letter requires a percentage attache...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I make my Modules the home page for my students, and I like for them to see the most recent information first.  As it is now, the default is for new modules and content to post to the bottom of the fe...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Hi   I am using the rubric to grade in speegrader. However, in the speedgrader panel the rubric descriptions are enlarging the table making it hard to view the entire rubric.   After a while, I don't ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When students submit their work as pdf documents for quizzes, then the instructor need to download the pdfs for grading. When students submit their work as pdf documents for assignments, then DocViewe...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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