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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...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I'm a community college professor, and I taught myself how to use Canvas when the pandemic begin. More recently, I've been mentoring my colleagues.  One major problem is that some of the most useful f...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Idea is currently in development Idea:  Include an option to view discussion posts alphabetically by the student's names. Ideally it's set to the same order as the course's SpeedGrader and/or Gradeb...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Add the ability to return the number of courses for a given TERM, either by default, or by passing an include value on the query string. Example: https://hostname.instructure.com/api/v1/accounts/1/ter...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When annotating on documents in SpeedGrader, the Text Annotation option allows you to type new notes anytime you click.  The Free Draw Annotation lets you add new drawings, but as soon as you let off ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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it will be more intuitive to change dashboard images from the dashboard area rather than going to module setting to make the change.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Gradebook eclipses at the top of the columns are not intuitive. They only show when your mouse rolls over the title (that is point A on Image attached). Should be showing all the time that grades are ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We have been having issues, whereby the course file storage gets full and no warning comes up. Staff automatically assume, it is bug, or the system is not working right. It will be beneficial to have ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Group submission go out of sync in speed-grader if you move students into different groups. Will be essential if canvas system can automatically link students moved in the group section to reflect on ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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With the grade posting policies currently in Canvas, the faculty member who has muted a column needs to remember to go back in and post the grades to this column so that students can see them. We woul...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In the New Rich Content Editor, the media recorder blocks the text/content behind it, so you cannot see or read what is on the screen.  {NOTE:  In the original RCE one could move the recording box in ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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When an instructor links an assignment to specific students by adding their names to the "Assign To" box in an assignment's settings page, the student names added do not appear in alphabetical, or any...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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In gradebook, can we have an advanced search feature where I can filter the whole class based on the status/grade of multiple assignments? Then can we have the ability to message those students altoge...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When a student has no active courses, the dashboard has a message that reads: "Welcome to Canvas! You don’t have any courses, so this page won’t be very exciting for now. Once you’ve created or signed...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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In New Analytics reports, the class roster report contains a column for Student SIS ID but none of the other reports have this column. The Student ID field is present in all of the reports so I can us...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Please enable the export of a SINGLE assignment from Gradebook. I am really tired of exporting the entire Gradebook, then having to delete a million columns to end up with a CSV of the ONE assignment ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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