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We get notifications in Conversations only when we're logged in and using it.It would be great so see in real time who's active on a conversations and when people post messages through the Canvas stud...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We use New Analytics to measure user engagement with resources in our community.  We use the announcements and calendar features to share events and new information.  When we run course reports, annou...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Our Canvas Community is where we share Career Resources for Business Students. Students are added in the Student role, but we also add faculty and staff as Observers so they can see and use our resour...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In our Canvas Community we use New Analytics to measure engagement with the resources we offer. Students in the college are automatically added to the community and are allowed to stay in even after g...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We currently use the API to create timetable events for sections. We would like to add an HTML link to a zoom url in the description field, however, currently only title and location are available thr...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Allow bulk delete of SCORM packages loaded to a course. Currently have to go into SCORM and click the delete icon next to each package (file) to delete. This is very time consuming if many files need ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We would like to be able to turn off ePortfolios at Root level but be able to select it at sub-account or course level.  We have been spammed by a number of people gaining access to the e-portfolio wh...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Don't get me wrong: I love Commons! But imagine my surprise when I learned that linked pages weren't being included when sharing pages or modules to Commons. Here's the scenario: I created a module co...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In the New Quizzes "Moderate" tab, it seems we can search and filter for students by their name but not by other identifiers such as the SIS ID or Canvas ID. The "SIS ID" is a key identifier for stude...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Please give the option of which column the "Total" score in the Gradebook shows, or the option of displaying more than one "Total".  The "Total" that displays in the Gradebook is the "Current grade/sc...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hello! We have detected that from the list to be made on the board you cannot delete all items at once, you have to delete them one by one.This happens on the dashboard from the computer, from the app...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be very handy to be able to create page templates and copy them to groups (ideally to group sets to make the process faster) so that the students can then use those pages as structuring / pla...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Came across this oddity today. I'm participating in a course for teaching online, and I went to do one of the assignments. It's due today, but the due date just says: "Due Sunday by 11:59pm". Which Su...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be helpful to be able to write-in a short statement about what exactly was changed on an Assignment or Page so students have context for important changes to expectations, additional support ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Currently, when a student makes a comment on his/her submission, the teacher will receive a message for that comment via a daily/weekly digest email.However, in the teacher's mailbox, only the message...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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The ability to copy a list of emails (separated by commas) into the "Send to.." field on the content sharing page would be a game changer for sharing content more widely. At this time colleague email ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Students are 1:1 with iPads and we greatly appreciate the ability for them to be able to turn in assignments from third-party apps such as Notability and Google. Students use a drop down menu to choos...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It seems like quiz names have to be changed twice -- in the module, and in the quiz. This is a problem. New Quizzes is filled with these little inconsistencies that make what has such potential extrem...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be helpful for instructors to be able to download all quiz submissions. For example, if an instructor wants students to use the Respondus LockDown Browser for a quiz that has a few essay type...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It would be really great if teachers that were manually added to courses, not via SIS, could remove themself from the course. Especially when we have guest teachers and substitutes.  Thank you.   

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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