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  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas  Learn more about voting...  Idea will be open for vote Wed. June 3, 2015 - Wed. September 2, 2015  Learn more about voting... Hello everyone, One...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas  Can we get a word count tool for our courses? Well, I don't know about a word count minimum requirement.  I was just thinking put something in lik...

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...Individual students often need...

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... I'd like to see an "Update Score and Next" button in Spe...

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... Originally posted Ren Whitaker in the old community. The ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas  We are a new Canvas customer and still in the implementation phase.  We are struggling to find a system that would allow us to completely remove ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas  Sometimes an instructor will create a quiz question and accidentally make it worth zero points. This happens most often when using an exam-creatio...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This is badly needed. We have had several people lost content they were writing in discussion posts and it would be useful when creating pages as well. Even here in the community Jive has this feature...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas For more information, please read through  Canvas Release: New Course and User Analytics I love seeing the course level analytics but want a way ...

Instructure Alumni Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas It seems as if the course menu and right sidebar take up too much space on the pages, in some cases even covering the content if the users screen ...

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 - August 5th, 2015  Learn more about voting...The Gradebook import feature should ignore any column that is m...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Hey All,As of now, Canvas Speedgrader allows the use of a stylus/pen via the mouse on a standard computer monitor. However, when logged in on an Ip...

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... This is not really a new idea, but I don't think it made...

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... As we are just beginning the process of working with Canv...

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 - August 5th, 2015  Learn more about voting... When students are viewing the grade...

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 - August 5th, 2015  Learn more about voting...  It would be very useful and time-saving to have a "new message...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Currently multiple answer questions give a partial score if students do not choose all the correct answers. Please add a feature that allows faculty to set multiple answer questions to give an all or ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS I'd like to be able to use the 'message students who' function in the gradebook for more than a single assignment.  It would be useful to be a...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas For the file upload question type on quizzes, allow multiple files to be uploaded. I use this question type to have students upload their notes fro...

Community Contributor 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 5 - August 5 Learn more about voting...   We would like to see a 'Submit and Publ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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