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Problem statement: Published items in an unpublished module are not available to students in Canvas. For example, if a student tries accessing a published assignment in another Canvas area (e.g., Assi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In Canvas, 'delete' and 'remove' mean different things. Deleting means the content no longer appears anywhere in the course (but can be recovered if you know how or contact support)...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The daily report includes "New Account User" when someone is granted an admin role. Where more than one role is granted, the same text is displayed (to the character) repeatedly, wh...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Request: Remove the reference to "artifacts" in the Apply Score to Ungraded dialog Explanation: I am excited about the ability to Apply Score to Ungraded Assignments. This will save me the hassle of h...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Please find away to make the behavior between click the assignment link in the To-do List  versus clicking the link that is  deployed in Modules or Assignments when there Module Requirements enabled. ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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  Here I've selected hide courses with 0 students and show only blueprints. Blueprints can not have students, so I can't see any bluerints. If you click "show only blueprints" it should turn "hide 0 ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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The way courses are listed in different parts of Canvas needs to be standardized. There seems to currently be at least three different listings: Course name only,Course name + termCourse name + term +...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hello! This is a student here with a small suggestion to add tooltips for the row of icons on the top of the Dashboard in ListView. This would be a small improvement but would allow the icons to be mo...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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An option to add a brief text description in a module would be helpful. This could be done like the text header, except with smaller font.   It can be used to give an overview of the module's contents...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I just ran my first course New Analytics analysis. I did not read the instructor manual on it figuring I could figure out what to do.  One thing that bothered me was that when you go to the reports, t...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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An interesting nuance (and annoyance) that I have spotted this year when I generate pairing codes is that Canvas seems to generate the codes randomly and often they contain a capital I (the letter bet...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When the course code is identical to the course name, would it be possible to just use one course name, instead of distinguishing between long name and short name (i.e. course code)? Having this disti...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When we delay announcements (say, if we have some left over from the previous offering of the course that we want to reuse but aren't sure when the course starts when it will run so we aren't ready to...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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  Right now..... An event on the calendar has a default time of 12am on the date of the event.An assignment has a default time of 11:59pm on the date the assignment is due.   This causes an inconsiste...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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