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Problem statement: We use the Speed Grader with a rubric on an iPad to mark assessments as part of a face to face course where we complete competency assessments throughout the day. These are the issu...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Hi This is off the back of a call with Canvas support. Turinitin originality scores cannot be viewed in the Canvas Mobile student app. I raised this off the back of an enquiry from ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In the browser, the Assignment Group Weights are prominently displayed on the "Grades" page. This information is critical to understanding a student's performance and grade in a cla...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When specifying the due dates for an assignment, a skip by year, as well as a skip by month function in the calendar would be useful. At my institution, the previous year's Canvas course is copied for...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The text box in comments should be bigger to allow easy writing as we are using pencils to add comments in the Canvas Teacher app. Currently the text box fits only a word or two, it would be good if i...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Average marks info is not displayed on the Canvas Teacher app (tested on iOS and Android) like it is on a PC. This feature is used a lot by our markers and they are having to revert to a PC/browser to...

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It would be great if SpeedGrader would display assignment word count on a mobile device, like it does on a PC. Currently word count is only available in the doc viewer using a browser.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Students and instructors have noted a significant difference between how the iOS apps (both Teacher and Student) render some files and how they are rendered in the browser. Specifically a pptx file wh...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We get notifications in Conversations only when we're logged in and using it.It would be great so see in real time who's active on a conversations and when people post messages through the Canvas stud...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Students are 1:1 with iPads and we greatly appreciate the ability for them to be able to turn in assignments from third-party apps such as Notability and Google. Students use a drop down menu to choos...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The subject line really sums it up. It just helps to see progress when I’m grading on my iPad rather than having to exit Speed Grader to see how many assignments I have left.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Feature suggestion: Add the option in the Canvas Teacher App for a teacher to be able to change the status of an assignment (missing, late, excused, none) within SpeedGrader. On October 16 SpeedGrader...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In the Canvas Parent App, the Announcements show up in the "Alerts" section but you can't filter it by subject and you can't get back to them if you clear out the notification. It appears the only way...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Sometimes I need to message part of a class but not all. The current Mobile App Inbox options allow me to either select the entire class or select each student one at a time to add to the message. Any...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In a 1-1 iPad environment many assignments get completed using Apple Pencils on .pdf documents. Whenever this happens it would be great to have the ability to pass feedback back and forth quickly betw...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We now have the incredibly useful 'Launch SpeedGrader Filtered by Student Group' course setting. This is useful for splitting up grading of paper in SpeedGrader based on group, e.g for different grade...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Canvas parent app inbox messages are retained with no way to delete in-app.  The only way to delete dated/unwanted inbox messages is to log in as a parent via browser, delete the messages, then reset ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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If an instructor enters grades for an assignment or quiz with an automatic grade-posting policy, students with notification preferences set for email and push notifications will receive both an email ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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We have Announcements, we have graded assignments, and we have course grades, so why not add to the widgets for the ToDo List? That way, everyone is able to see the things that they need to do right f...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When using speed grader in a browser, a direct link to the assignment appears at the top.  When grading assignment using the teacher canvas app, there is no direct link to the assignment.  Please make...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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