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Currently in the New Gradebook, instructors can set the gradebook so that late penalties are automatically deducted. It is unfortunate that in multiple-attempt quizzes for which only the highest-score...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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With the assessment late policy feature, Gradebook 2.0 removes the burden which our lecturers have to deduct the mark for late submission manually. The late submissions are identified automatically...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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USE CASE: I do a lot of small “group” exercises in the classroom.  I need the ability to grade the submissions as a group (which is there), but I also need the ability to provide individual grades (to...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I would like to see a more global option to enable/disable the display of MISSING/LATE assignment labels to our students in their Gradebook. While I appreciate the effort to address our initial concer...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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in the new gradebook it would be great if there were separate policies for each assignment or even for each assignment group.  We have different policies for our participation than for typical assignm...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This is not a new idea (see below). However, since many of the responses appear to suggest creating a Feature Idea... I have tried to title this so that it includes words that will get picked up multi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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My skill with drawing using a mouse in Docviewer  is rather lackluster.  So my thought is a palette of predefined images would be ever so helpful.  A question mark, green check mark, new paragraph, et...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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This was up, but archived.  See Add, Create, or Modify a Calculated or the Total Column in the Gradebook.   Being able to calculate things in the grade book beyond adding things up or weighting and ad...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  Currently instructors cannot create hypothetical scores for students like What-If scores. This would be very helpful as we get close to the end of the quarter to see if a student has the ability to ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I don't know why Canvas insists upon points for grading. Many of us are moving towards grading systems without points or letter grades (standards-based grading or specifications grading). Linda Nilson...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We are in need of flexibility in displaying final grades and assignment groups similar to the way that individual assignments have flexibility in the way they display. For example, I would like the op...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Please excuse the verbose title.   Our faculty want the option to have assignments within an assignment group to be given the same weight even if they are graded on different point values.   For examp...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I'd like to see the rubrics within Canvas support percentages rather than fixed points. Like many instructors, I'm constantly tinkering my point distribution to ensure both a challenging environment a...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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