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...

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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...

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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...

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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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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Mobile When logging into the Student App for Canvas, I noticed that the Studio videos I embedded in my course were a link and not an interactive v...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas As an instructor, I find the ability to export my gradebook very useful. My gradebook is broken into different periods. When filtered by a period...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Canvas for Elementary on IOS does not allow a teacher to choose a banner for the course. They can choose a color but nothing else. If the banner ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Can Canvas add an informational or warning pop-up when clicking "Save" for a new announcement in an unpublished course notifying the creator that...

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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas   To Whom It May Concern, RN students take their tests throughout the program via Canvas to get ready for their CA BRN NCLEX Licensure examinatio...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Please revert back to the view with 2 courses side by side….the new update only has one course which forces students to scroll through a list to ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS For the purpose of emailing parents their child's unique pairing code, it would be ideal if the Export Pairing Codes utility on the People pag...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Set a button of "clear answers" to be able to leave blank a multiple choice question to avoid penalization. Case: Spain is a country of: a) Europ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS When you view studentries in the Discussion forum - I suggest that they are not automatically marked as read and that the bullet does not aut...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same need, please feel free to comment. We'd love ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS   Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same need, please feel free to comment. We'd ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Hi, We would like subcatalog administrators in Canvas Catalog to be sorted by alphabetical order or the order in which they were added (either at...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas When setting a short availability window for assignments (i.e. 2.5 hours) the student will see a time estimate. This estimate is calculated in se...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Currently, Classic quizzes can be exported as a QTI. New quizzes cannot. We could use this functionality.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas We are concerned about the ability of students to generate public links for videos in Canvas Studio. We restrict the publishing of public content...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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