Canvas Ideas

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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas I had been relying on the "view all aligned items and artifacts within an outcome" function in the old interface to see which assignments were al...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Someone posted this idea previously (Available From Date for Files), but it was archived, I assume because the title and description were not ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Preface: Canvas support asked me to post a feature request as this is was deemed not a bug, but how it should work. This is in spite of what is s...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Studio When trying to "move" a Studio video into a collection, there is no way to sort or search the list that comes up. The list contains every c...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Hello As an instructor of a language course with a lot of assignments, the format of having the names of the students show up on the main screen ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas   As a student, it would be helpful to have a box and whisker plot when showing grade distributions, instead of the current min/mean/max. The med...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Reviving this suggestion!  Students with hearing impairments and require recorded lectures to have 'closed captions' enabled would benefit from b...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Catalog Hi, Currently, in Canvas Catalog in the subcatalog admin area, there is a random process for how these admins are added and they are not b...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas We're frequently reminded of the positive impact we can establish with students by using video messaging, especially in our asynchronous classes....

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas When the instructor still needs to grade essay portions of a test it would be nice for students to just to see the submitted symbol, not the comp...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas The vector symbol is no longer part of the new equation editor - bring it back.

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas I am an undergrad student. The 'view feedback' button that appears on graded submissions should only appear if my instructor has left feedback wi...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas I currently have 507 courses listed under Course Media in the Canvas Navigation. These appear to be sorted from the oldest to newest course which...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Currently, you can only open or close enrollments manually for a Catalog listing. We would like to suggest having enrollment open and close date ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Add a flag to the SIS Imports API to control the default status used for missing Users in a diffing feed.  This would be something similar to the...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas I think there might be a small design issue for the Wordbank option in a “fill in the blank” question type. The problem is that a “Wordbank” box ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS It would be great if Canvas had a substitute portal similar to what PowerSchool provides for substitutes (link). The portal would allow a subs...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas We really like the new 'Filter' option in the gradebook, but the 'submissions' filter is a bit limiting. It would be much better if it also filte...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas When a student submits a Classic Quiz that is a mix of auto-graded and manually graded question types, that quiz appears in gradebook with the "n...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Our organisation has been using Canvas for our LMS and Canvas Catalog for Course Listings. Our LMS is only accessible to our students and staff. ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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