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Several times I have been working on an assignment rubric, then switch back to the assignment to add some detail or make some other edit. I do this, of course, without thinking about the fact that rub...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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You should be able to go from low to high score or high to low score on rubrics.  Probably one of the most difficult items to complete the way it is (range is a good option but there is a lot of playi...

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Simple suggestion:  when creating a rubric the "edit" and "delete" icons are right next to each other.  Numerous times I've hit "delete" instead of "edit" and have to redo the criteria. Simply move th...

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Our root account has 82 Courses 25 Sub-Accounts.When I look at the course list at the root level there are 3910 pages of results, 58,650 coursesI can not find the 82 courses at the root level in this ...

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Hello, The external tools box inside course content needs a search feature so we can pick from our list of Apps which exceed 260 at this time. Please add a search box in the "Find" area of External To...

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Currently when I export grades from the canvas gradebook, ungraded submissions show up with no score or marking at all in the csv file.  I would like to see some kind of indication in the csv that a s...

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Greetings! I love modules for organizing and managing content. I always enable the module requirement "Students must move through requirements in sequential order." This setting allows students to see...

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Currently, assigned student group leaders are identified as the leader by a small icon next to their name.  Many students are not aware of the meaning of the icon and the wrong group members end up su...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When I am using Discussions with Groups, I cannot make a "reply" that goes to all student groups. I would love it if an option would appear for me, the teacher, to do so, so that I could start groups ...

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Sometimes students send unwanted or even harassing messages to other students, unsolicited. It would be great if students could block messages from senders who are upsetting them.  I realize this coul...

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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...

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We recently had an instructor that was trying to provide feedback for their students using audio comments. Some students reported that they were unable to play the media. As a result, the instructor w...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The Link Validator will check links to deleted content, but it's not usually worth the teacher's time to review errors on these links (especially since the content is deleted and cannot be edited). Th...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I want to see the most recent at the top of the email notification,

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User Story: As an instructor with 100 students in a course on Canvas, I would like to have a feature where students can review their group teammates (e.g., in Group #1, Student A reviews B and C; Stud...

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In the New Gradebook, I can type EX to automatically get the Excused status applied to a student's grade for an assignment. I would love to see that functionality extended to the Missing and Late stat...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi, There are some known issues with Hebrew in the past years. I think I have found the cause to all the known problems. Some are related to the OS and/or keyboard that people use to type Hebrew. One ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hot Spot is a great question type if you want students to identify a SINGLE point on an image. It would be great if there was an Question Type that allowed you to label an image. It could operate like...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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New Quizzes reports do not include the Student Analysis report as seen in Classic Quizzes. Our faculty use this report to track completion of students.  Currently the reports offered in New Quizzes do...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently the missing policy will enter zeros (or any designated score) automatically at the due date, but with assignments that have manual grade posting turned on, those zeros (and the impact to ave...

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