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I'm not sure why push notifications for discussion boards were disabled, but please reenable them.  I'm a student and they were a great way to get notified when there was a new post, or response.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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We have shown our teachers how to make recent #Announcements appear on the Homepage, but it does not work for students in the Student App.  Our elementary and middle school students all are on iPads (...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Please consider a feature that allows teachers (or canvas admins) the ability to select a default too for use in speedgrader for iOS. For example, if a teacher collects assignments of the type "file u...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When a class is divided into sections, I hope grade assignments in "To do" will lead to grade the section that is assigned to me, not the entire class.  In other words, students assigned NOT to my sec...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It would be awesome if you could select what authentication position you wanted to route traffic from the parent app to.  For example, we use a SAML authentication against our school's Gsuite accounts...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Currently, if your institution has a theme style sheet, the styles are not viewable/applied in the Rich Content Editor while in Edit mode.  Only upon saving are you able to see styles applied from the...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Our students are submitting assignments on a daily basis in Canvas. It would be really nice if they could filter their grades by the status of assignments such as Missing. Then students would only see...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hello, The screenshot below best shows my idea.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In the Canvas Teacher app, currently, when students upload more than 1 pdf files, I have to click each file in order to load each of them. If possible, when students upload more than 1 pdf files, I'd ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Currently, “Grades", "Comments", and "Files" are in three Tabs. I'd like them to be displayed on the same page, as shown on the right side. "Comments" goes to the middle section, and "Files" goes to t...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The Canvas Parent App needs to display assignment comments and rubric scores. This is a huge oversight of the app and an integral part of parent engagement in student learning, The purpose of assessme...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When grading in the app, it would be nice to have the title of the assignment at the top, while you're looking at each student's work. Once you click on an assignment, the title of the assignment is n...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be great if on the canvas app, as a teacher, we could just scroll up and down to go through all the file attachments a student has submitted, instead of having to back to “files” and having t...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Please add navigation menu to the parent app (home, announcements, modules, grades). Otherwise, parents have to dig through the course to see these menu options. Also, if a teacher has modules set as ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When grading in the Teacher App for Canvas, the grade slider only has whole number increments. It would be useful to have other decimal value available, such as .25, .5 and .75. Idea originates from V...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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We have recently started adding additional e-learning content to our courses in the form of SCORM packages (created and published using Articulate Rise). While these work beautifully on Canvas as view...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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While using Canvas online mobile/tablet version (I know people that use it that way because is convenient when you don't have your laptop and you want to study, and you don't want to use the Canvas ap...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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In Canvas Android app, while browsing modules you realize that a lot of precious screen space is wasted. I don't understand why and cannot find any real reason to be that way because is not justified ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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When using Canvas in a mobile/tablet browser (something quite convenient, remember that not everybody has a laptop and not everybody likes Canvas app), when you have finished week 1 module and press t...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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At the moment, when using the web browser UI for Canvas, students can see a Calendar for their Course Groups and Account-level groups and events from these calendars are visible to them.   In the Stud...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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