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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 Explorer 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 Coach 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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In higher education, we have the need to give a 0 to all students who did not submit their assignment after the cut-off date (available until date in Canvas). Right now, the missing submissions featur...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In Speedgrader: an option to view the number of completed graded assignments (similar to what is provided in the grade book)   Numerator: number of assignments gradeddenominator: number of assignments...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In the current workflow of the new assignment enhancements feature, students cannot submit their submission from the 'comments' tab. Some students after attaching their work, will add a comment for th...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In a pass/fail quiz, students would need to get a certain number of questions correct to earn full points.  For example, a Quiz that has 10 questions is either worth 75 points or 0 points at the end o...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It looks like this was suggested in 2017 but not done....In the grade book, it would be great to add  "Needs Grading" to the dropdown menu options, so we can quickly navigate to the students who have ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When canvas chat is turned on, it was explained to me that by default it is enabled for all courses in the account.  Below, I have explained reasons why Canvas Chat should be initially disabled by def...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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