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Problem statement: Teachers in our division use gradebook passback from Canvas to our SIS. The Canvas gradebook Settings > Late Policies currently possess the ability to automatically apply a deductio...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: As the teacher, I cannot see what is the percent of total grade of each assignment. My students can see this on their Canvas page. Proposed solution: On the modules and assignments...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a teacher is building a course that has grading periods, once they start the last quarter of the year they will see ALL the assignments that they have created but not yet estab...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Right now, the ability to Sync and Unsync assignments is done one by one. While this is beneficial in many ways, it does create a time sink around the end of a grading period/quarte...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Coming from previous LMS (Moodle), faculty were easily able to set how students view all of their grades and not just the total column. This left for very little confusion as points...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Use case: An instructor wants to allow an additional attempt on multiple assignments but wants the grade to be capped at 80% of the score on the second attempt with the highest grade standing. Current...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I set many of my extra credit and/or elective assignments with a denominator of "0" to indicate that there are not required assignments but rather "optional". When students are abse...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It would be great if there was an option to post assessments at an Assignment Group level, rather than just at an individual level. Use case. We have a course revision assignment th...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I have had several professors ask me how they can set up a quiz or assignment and automatically have Canvas award the student FULL CREDIT for completing the assignment and a zero fo...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This may be an idea somewhere but I am not seeing one currently.  This feature request/idea is for there to be the ability to put a 100% cap on category weights.  For example, if you provide extra cre...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Currently, when using Multiple Grading Periods, you can override a student's grade for each individual grading period in a course. This is a great feature we use a lot - however, when running reports,...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Currently, there is a function to disable sync to PowerSchool in the 3 dot menu next to the blue +Assignment button on the Assignments page.   This function disables all assignments from syncing to Po...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same need, please feel free to comment. We'd love to hear your thoughts. Please find here improvements re...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Additional field in the Grading scheme, outside from the numerical scale. (e.g.: New field Not done) Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same need, please feel free to comment. We'd love to hear your thoughts.   Need Add a new setting in the ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Please give the option of which column the "Total" score in the Gradebook shows, or the option of displaying more than one "Total".  The "Total" that displays in the Gradebook is the "Current grade/sc...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Sometimes I enter an assignment for which I give everyone credit.  So I quickly enter the completion grades, scrolling down the column in the gradebook.  The trouble is, if I'm going fast, the cursor ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through theCanvas Release Notes (2023-10-21)  It would be great fo...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When creating an assignment I opt for complete / incomplete.  However, once it appears in speedgrader the options should be complete / incomplete / missing.  Why?  When I set the default for missing a...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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A feature added to, or parallel with,  posing hidden grades to post all comments made & saved but not posted themselves would be great.  Post comments in bulk, is what we're getting at.  Its tough to ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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