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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... No matter how many ways I try to direct them otherwise, ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas  Several of my users have asked for a way to easily edit and preview quiz questions when there are more than 50 in a question bank. One instructor ...

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... The notification links provided through notification em...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Currently, the discussion posts are ordered from oldest to newest.  A student/professor has to scroll or go to the last page and then scroll to get to the latest post.   Canvas REALLY needs to re-orde...

Community Champion 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... We are a mufti-college district with sub-accounts for ea...

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 would like for a visual indicator to confirm that a pr...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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As a user, I want to be able to keep frequent notifications enabled for courses that have high interaction, that I am more invested in, or I find important.  I want to be able to 'down-tune' or disabl...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas For additional information, please read through Canvas Production Release Notes (2016-12-10). When creating groups with the option to "Split Stu...

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... Below is text from a higher education faculty:Back in Fe...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas     Idea will be open for vote May 5 - August 5 Learn more about voting... It would be nice to also be able to edit a Global Announcement.  Curren...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas   Idea will be open for vote May 5 - August 5 Learn more about voting... In the Administrative Pages of Canvas, under Settings >> Settings tab, th...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas An option to "make a copy" should be present on nearly every gear in Canvas -- modules, quizzes, assignments, announcements, pages, discussions, r...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS I would like to see some additional options for Rubrics.  Specifically, it would be nice to be able to:   Insert a new rubric row anywhere wit...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Add the Rich Text Editor to the Comments section of Speedgrader.   "I want to recommend books, etc., or to properly format foreign words, and ...

Instructure Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas  As an instructor, I'd like a setting whereby I can set a minimum number of minutes or days between allowed quiz attempts. Ideally this setting cou...

Instructure Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas As an instructor, I'd like the option to submit assignments on behalf of my students. This feature should enable me to pick a file from my comput...

Instructure 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... As a user, I'd like to be able to give feedback on discussion ...

Instructure 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 calendar application is great! When I learned about it, ...

Instructure 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... As an instructor, I want to e...

Instructure Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Idea: Instructors can create discussions that allow for posts to be made anonymously   Use Cases: As an instructor, I want to create discussions ...

Instructure Canvas Ideas
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