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Problem statement: Currently the "Evidence" field in Canvas Credentials/Badgr Pro does not support Markdown. This causes evidence to be jumbled and unorganized for the viewer (recipient and 3rd partie...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When navigating the vertical menus, there is no indication of the end of a listing. This means new users to the platform don't easily understand that the navigation ends at that poi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We would love to create animated badges for students to receive after completing a module. Only static images are currently accepted in Badgr/Canvas. Proposed solution: Animated ba...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When displaying badges in the Pathway, the badge name needs to occupy multiple lines without wrapping. In this case when a milestone badge and a required badge are displayed the bad...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, there is limited ability to distinguish between Module headers and text headers. Modules that possess a significant amount of content become very convoluted and are diffi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: For submission comments, the default emoji are yellow. A user has the option to add an emoji, but may be difficult for them to select a skin tone. If the user knows how to utilize e...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: From English Faculty: It is exceedingly frustrating not to be able to highlight books titles in italics in all spaces in Canvas. The grading comment box is just one space where one ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Calendar appointments should receive the strikethrough formatting after the time has passed. They appear as unresolved items in the calendar even after they are over. Things like di...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: For fill-in-the-blank questions, from a bank (not sure if it happens when not from a bank), in New Quizzes, the submission details stacks up the correct/incorrect entries on the fir...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Many instructors have submitted support tickets at Stanford, thinking they were stuck in Student View. It turns out they interpret the Student View button as a label indicating they...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be very useful to widen the containers in Assignment Edit so that the times in Available From and Until are presented in full. We have lots of minute specific end times and seeing them in the...

Community Participant 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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It seems that in the Grades tool, the only indicator of a dropped grade is a colored background on corresponding cells.  The color is barely noticeable by someone who can see it, and it is not a suffi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When enabled, Rubrics, Item Banks, Attendance, and New Analytics are visible to faculty, but not to students. Since the visibility icon is supposed to indicated what elements are not visible to ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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It would be great if the "Text Header" box in modules could be expandable. I like to use long headers, and they are hard to edit in the current layout.  

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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We use Canvas for all of our classes, and also for parent communication. We have a "Week at a Glance" page that contains information and reminders for the upcoming week. The notification that is sent ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Please add a feature to the Gradebook where users/faculty can color code the gradebook based on criteria that they set (rules). Yes you have the new analytics tool but this would be very helpful to ha...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Could you please include a smaller font size option for the free text annotations in Speedgrader. The smallest font size option is too large.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Please allow the option to import course card when importing a course.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The New User Tutorial feature also removes the maximum width setting of Canvas to expand to the full width of the browser, removing the pesky white space. Why these two features are tied together make...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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