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I know there are several good ideas about improving the HTML editor including making it easier to read the HTML. I think one thing that would be beneficial is to have my cursor remain on the same spot...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Please add a notification option (preferably turned on by default) that sends a reminder notification 24 hours before a quiz or an assignment is due, to any student who has not already submitted it.  ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hello all! I am a student, and I am here to suggest an idea that I thought would make Canvas more personalized. I think a dark theme would be great for Canvas since some students like to stay up at ni...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Our university receives role names from our SIS, and we've created corresponding custom roles in Canvas. This gives members of a course an accurate idea of everyone's roles. For example, it's importan...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Hi, we want to add a link to all places that we import to the calendar to give student a map location for the place field in the calendar object. It is not very easy when the field does not support HT...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Allow users to #self-enroll in a Canvas course via the secret URL into a specific #section within that course. Doing so would remove the need to manually move/assign sections to each user.   Basicall...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Hello everyone!   I have been working with faculty to create mobile friendly content pages.  While most often pages will look okay on mobile devices, I often have to explain why some content such as t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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The wonderful New Course Search in Canvas Production Release 2018-03-10 unfortunately removes the option to sort listings of courses based on course creation date.  Admins regularly need to work with ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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The new course/people search is pretty nice, however, it still does not show you if a course/section have been combined. It would be nice if there was some indicator of this.   When you combine/crossl...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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The Problem: If students submit to a group assignment that does not have an associated group set, those submissions appear as individual submission rather than group submissions. Because this causes n...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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We have heard a few requests from instructors to get an export or printing function built into the Speedgrader that will allow them to print their annotated comments, similar to how track changes can ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Many times, we write quizzes that get progressively more difficult. I would love a feature where students can get grades as they go on a quiz. In other words, they can submit their answer for question...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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@people list is alphabetical by last names, which is not helpful. Please add sorting function by "First Name", "Section", "last Activity" and "Total Activity". All other tabular lists should be sort-a...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We would like the ability to enable and disable Conversations/Messages and its features, like "Reply All", at a Course Level.   While these features can be edited at a role level, each course may have...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I would like to see a more global option to enable/disable the display of MISSING/LATE assignment labels to our students in their Gradebook. While I appreciate the effort to address our initial concer...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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in the new gradebook it would be great if there were separate policies for each assignment or even for each assignment group.  We have different policies for our participation than for typical assignm...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Finding a specific message in the Canvas Inbox is a difficult task due to the lack of a search feature. This is compounded for instructors of large courses, who may have thousands of students over the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I would like to suggest that when admin reports, like unpublished and unused courses, are run that there is some indication of 1) whether the course is cross-listed, and 2) which course it is cross-li...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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As a course design assistant, my dashboard gets entirely too overloaded and the need to scroll to find the course I need to access can go on for a while due to the size of the cards. I would love to b...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hello, I've noticed my students scrolling down long pages of modules to get to the latest assignment, and I've had to do this myself. It gets old. So I wanted to order the modules in reverse order wit...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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