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The 2022-03-30 code deploy added the option to edit times in the Assignment Bulk Editor. It would be helpful (and consistent with design in other areas) for the date picker that opens when a field is ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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It would be good to see consistency when using the speed grader or when editing grades for individual students.  One way allows adding attachments, editing comments, and deleting comments the other wa...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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The new Equation Editor is nice, but we've lost a couple of features that are quite useful if you enter a lot of equations into your courses. 1.) In the previous version, once you selected "Advanced" ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Our admins routinely add users to past courses. Generally, these are instructors of the next semester of a course or course admins who need to get information for a faculty member. Sometimes it is a s...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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It is a very straightforward process to add a user to a course in the course list view. An authorized user (Admin) can click on the plus button enter the user's email address, login id, or sis id and ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Can we have the option to Sync and Unsync assignments from the assignment page per se , instead of going to the assignment  list and do that?  The student view was added a couple of years ago and it h...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I would like suggest adding a checkbox at the top of each Module (right next to the "Publish/Unpublish" checkbox so we can quickly lock and unlock an entire Module at a time.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem:  I get a notification of a grade on browser. There is a dot by grades within my course module. I click the link to "Grades". When I get there I do not see any kind of relevant information or ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It’s been confusing for my students (and for me at times) that you have to click the title of an announcement and not any part of the preview. I have had students who were using the “reply” option as ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It would be great to have a "Select All" button at the top of the rubric's column that represents a score of 100%. This would permit graders to more efficiently grade assessments with multiple grading...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hello, We are attempting to encourage users to make use of Canvas Studio and discourage use of the native media tool in an attempt to better comply with captioning needs. It is helpful that we can hid...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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My students have submitted essays and I want to use the voice recognition or the video record feature to give them feedback but I am unable to scroll through their submission while I make these commen...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I love the new student annotation feature, however the students are only able to annotate using the keyboard and mouse/touchpad. We would love for students to be able to use their finger to draw on th...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Finding and optionally replacing a string is an important editing function. Currently the Canvas Rich Content Editor does not have a string matching and replacement capability. String  matching is an ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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There have now been countless times that I have lost work in the new quizzes editor because I navigated away and forgot to save. My hair is turning grey from this. Please display a warning box when th...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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The Canvas Training Portal advertises that there should be a Canvas Studio button on the RCE toolbar, with the standard Canvas Studio icon, but the button is not present on the new RCE toolbar.  Inste...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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The html editor used to have two buttons, one to enter superscript mode and a second to enter subscript mode.   Now, there is one, which gives you a superscript unless you pick off the subscript optio...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The full screen mode on the new rich content editor is a very nice addition. It makes it very easy to edit a page in full screen mode.  One of the things I have received in feedback from the faculty i...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would save a lot of time if teachers could create any kind of assignment, discussion, page, quiz, etc. -- basically anything -- in the "calendar", instead of being limited to only "Assignments". Th...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In speedgrader on the web, teachers have to "check" or "tick" pen annotations. This is different from most annotation apps.  The need to "check" to save pen annotations is confusing since that is not ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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