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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas I gave a tough exam where a score of 73/100 was an A-. In Canvas's grading section, I report to students what score they got (like a 73) and what...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas    Idea will be open for vote Wed. June 3, 2015 - Wed. September 2, 2015  Learn more about voting...What I envision is simple themes in course set...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas    Idea will be open for vote June 3rd, 2015 - September 2nd, 2015  Learn more about voting...Currently, to change a users role on a course, the u...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas   Idea will be open for vote Wed. June 3, 2015 - Wed. September 2, 2015  Learn more about voting... Add an option to customize the favicon across ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas   Idea will be open for vote Wed. June 3, 2015 - Wed. September 2, 2015  Learn more about voting... I would like to be able to change the calendar...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas   Idea will be open for vote Wed. June 3, 2015 - Wed. September 2, 2015  Learn more about voting... I noticed grading periods was an upcoming featu...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas  I know that quiz times can be changed/extended by going into each quiz and selecting the student to grant more time ('moderate a quiz').  However,...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas  Learn more about voting...   Idea will be open for vote May 5th, 2015 - August 5th, 2015  Learn more about voting...   We would like to be ab...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas   It would be useful to have the ability to tailor Announcements to specific sections or groups in a course.   Comments from Instructure   For m...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas    I would like to throw this out there...   What if an assignment could automatically be scored as a zero if not completed by a specified date? T...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Canvas should paginate the course list in the admin console. To say "There are too many courses to show . . . Please use the finder" can be and oft...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas I would like to see a jumbled sentence question type. When we changed from WebCT to Canvas none of these question types imported and they are used ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas   Idea will be open for vote May 5th, 2015 - August 5th, 2015  Learn more about voting... I would like to see more granularity in the report of cou...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas  Learn more about voting...Please create the ability for instructors to allow extensions/date changes for submissions of: Assignments, Discussions...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas   Idea will be open for vote May 5th, 2015 - August 5th, 2015  Learn more about voting... Please give students the ability to hide past course gro...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to CanvasIf Microsoft Office 365 was an integrated web service, these two features could be implemented:Homework submissions from Office 365's OneDriveCollab...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas     Please add support for iWork submissions in speed grader. We use Numbers, Pages, and Keynote all the time and would like support for these f...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas    Idea will be open for vote May 5th, 2015 - August 5th, 2015  Learn more about voting... Instructors would like the ability to hide the automati...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas   Idea will be open for vote May 5th, 2015 - August 5th, 2015  Learn more about voting... It would help to have a pop-up warn you when you enter a...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas I think it would be beneficial if teachers could define custom sharing groups when adding to Commons.  For example, teachers can share with any S...

Instructure Canvas Ideas
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