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There should be an option to remove assignments that won't count toward a student's grade from the gradebook and the student's grade page. My gradebook is cluttered by formative assignments that won't...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Currently if you have an assignment set to complete/incomplete grading and worth 0 points, if you download the gradebook, all students are shown as having 0s rather than completes and incompletes. "Ex...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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With the grade posting policies currently in Canvas, the faculty member who has muted a column needs to remember to go back in and post the grades to this column so that students can see them. We woul...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Since the changes to the gradebook last year, it would be really beneficial to have an additional option when setting up assignment regarding overriding the grade posting policy.  Can we please have a...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently, Canvas Grade Periods must be set at the Account Admin level. However, this doesn’t work in a K-12 environment.  We have schools that enroll students in courses that run by year, semester, o...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Could you please create an option for all late work to simply revert to an "Ungraded" Status instead of get a particular score? This would make a lot more sense to both my students and me! Thank-you!

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In our school district we have been utilizing the TCC (thin common cartridges) for each of the textbooks.  Teachers load these entire textbooks into their course and when they go to the gradebook, bec...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Feature request:  automatically highlight grades that are above maximum with some bright color to alert the teacher that they may have made a data entry error.  The text notification at the top of the...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Has this ever happened to you? You create a great assignment; students start submitting; you start grading; and then you realize: you forgot to set your preferred posting policy! You should have remem...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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On Canvas on the right-side bar that appears when an assignment is clicked, there are the colored options like None, Late, Missing, and Excused. We also need the option of "Hold." Oftentimes I need to...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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As an instructor, when I make some major adjustments to my grade book, every little thing that happens to the grade book "dings" the student's notifications.  There should be a feature to allow some c...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In New Gradebook, instructors intuit incorrectly that Hide and Post replace Mute/Unmute. They believe these actions affect future grades. They do not know to look for the Grade Posting Policy.   Impr...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Faculty expect the Eye Icon in SpeedGrader to work the same as the old Mute/Unmute feature, but it does not.   We recently discovered that if an assignment has the Automatic Post Policy applied and yo...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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We recently discovered that if an assignment has the Automatic Post Policy applied and you hide grades, it is only hiding the grades that exist at the time you click Hide Grades. Grades you enter afte...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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In our last gradebook, teachers were able to scale scores automatically.  For example, if an assignment has 17 questions, the teacher could enter that the student got 13/17 questions correct, and then...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I would like to share the idea of adding a "Calculate Class Average" in the Gradebook for each course. Right now, a teacher may view the average for each assignment by selecting "Assignment Details" b...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I would like to see the total points earned on an individual module in the grade book. I would also like to be able to push this score to our SIS instead of individual grades from the module.  I do a ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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While a similar idea was suggested before (No Note Character Limit ), I think the Gradebook Notes column is a valuable feature that, with an increased character limit, would be even more useful.  Curr...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It seems this has been a reoccurring request for some time now, but is not generating the votes needed to get attention. Perhaps it is time to try again!   Canvas would benefit greatly from being able...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Teachers should be able to click on the individual student name from the gradebook and then change grades and add comments from the Students Grade Page (which shows all assignments from that one stude...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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