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Hi Canvas community,   I'd like to share an idea that would really benefit us and the way we use Canvas. We use and abuse sub-accounts as we work with different university partners. You'll see in the ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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For Online Assignment => Media Recording Submission  -- have the ability to put a time limit for the recordings submitted by students.   This came up during our Canvas Bootcamp, and we have a LOT of E...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Canvas provides a great feature to create a syllabus in a course. We generally encourage our instructors to create their content in the RCE (HTML) so that it is more accessible and usable than a PDF f...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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In most contexts, when a file such as a Word document or PDF is linked in Canvas, a preview button is added alongside the filename, which allows the user to preview the file in-line without downloadin...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Upon image upload, the alt-text associated with that image is entered. If the image is uploaded in My Files, and alt-text is associated with the image, that alt-text would be the default alt-text anyw...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently if an admin or media department want to upload a video on behalf of someone else, they must either 1) Act as that user, or 2) Upload to their own Studio account, share the video, and then te...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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If something is visible from the Admin Tab, we should be able to disable it from Permissions.    Currently if you create an Admin role called Advisor, and give that role No Permissions, the Advisors s...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We had a request to have the calendar items on the Canvas course calendar to be sorted Alphabetically as an alternative way to sort and view items (quizzes, assignments, et). 

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would help promote discussion if replies could go deeper than one level. 

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to be able to extend the typing box, like in regular Canvas, instead of just working in a tiny little box where it is difficult to review what was previously typed.

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I've been using the comment space on video lectures as a stand-in for class discussions and it's been pretty great. One way to make it even better would be to provide a full-text editor so students ca...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Current Limitation:  Currently, Canvas does not allow admins and instructors to weight (i.e. change the percentage of the assignment group) in separate course sections. The current solution is for adm...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In Classic Quizzes, when taking an exam, the time remaining is in this format: XX Years, XX Months, XX Days, XX Hours, XX Minutes, XX Seconds. However, in New Quizzes, it only shows hours, minutes, an...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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In the history of quizzes, when a teacher creates a quiz with multiple attempts, they usually set which score to keep (highest, latest, average). However, students will not be aware of this until they...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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As an admin, I am often copying courses within Canvas. Whenever I copy a course, I am automatically enrolled as a teacher in the course which can become irritating. I do not need to be a teacher in th...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Currently the permission for editing grades gives graders the right to also post grades. This means that different tutors (per section or group) can post grades earlier than others. It should be possi...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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It would help save time, and make grading easier, if insights could be separated by course sections.

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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When we assign students a peer review in canvas, they do not have access to the speedgrader. What they end up with is a slightly clunky assortment of pop-out windows for viewing/annotating and the rub...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The idea: Our students (higher education: BA, MBA) have recently raised the following feedback: "discussions are disorganised. There is a mix of posts from the LEX team (student support), academics (t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Recently, Instructure released Collections (similar to folders) in Canvas Studio.  (How do I create a collection in Canvas Studio?)  The default view is sorted by "Date Added" and "View All".  It woul...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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