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As part of my grading process I will often leave students feedback in Canvas and expect them to use that feedback to improve and resubmit their work. Previously, I used to be able to easily see my ent...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When a new conference is created in a course students are sent a content update notification. The link in the notification goes to the conferences url in the course. At this point students are redirec...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When an Assignment is created, it would be beneficial to be able to have a drop-down menu to select a Module to place the assignment in. This could work as the assignment category.  After creating an ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We use Canvas to operate an entirely virtual high school with 100+ courses. While each course is unique, some assignment categories are consistent across all courses. For example, each course has a fi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Please consider a feature that allows teachers (or canvas admins) the ability to select a default too for use in speedgrader for iOS. For example, if a teacher collects assignments of the type "file u...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I would like to suggest a way to export TA & instructor information from the People screen in a course.  There are I times I need to enroll the same TA's and /or instructors in another course and it w...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I am a photo teacher. Each assignment has 5-7 files. I want to be able to download one section at a time and when I unzip the folder I want each student to have a folder with their name and inside the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Instead of having to check the box "Allow use in Mastery Paths" for each individual page you want to include in a Mastery Path, it would be nice if Pages were automatically an option for what you can ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In Canvas, currently, there is not a way to manage an item bank from the Admin. level. This creates a problem when trying to edit questions that were pulled from the item bank, especially in blueprint...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Right now any user in an admin account role can adjust the scores in New Quizzes for any teacher at a school site.  We use Grade Guardian which allows account admins to access specific dashboards of s...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Teachers should be able to add time to a timed quiz after the time is up. In a face to face class, if a student has been working diligently on a quiz or test and they ask to have additional time, I gi...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Allow setup of least passing grade for each grading standard. Just as a range of percentages are tied to a certain grade, a grade/range of grades should be tied a boolean status - pass or fail. Exampl...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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As a teacher, I'd like the ability to change the question type after I have already created the question (like I was able to do with the Classic Quizzes).  For example, after I've created a multiple c...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to have at the Admin level that when a student has an IEP for let us say 1.5x or 2x on their exams or assignments that we can go in and put that info in at a student level that automa...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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tl;dr It would be nice if Commons updated only the parts of a shared course that were updated and not the entire course.  Right now, Commons seems to overwrite an entire course. More Details Let's say...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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When a class is divided into sections, I hope grade assignments in "To do" will lead to grade the section that is assigned to me, not the entire class.  In other words, students assigned NOT to my sec...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Would it be possible to add a feature on the moderate quiz page on canvas so you could filter by section? Thank you!

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice if the New Rich Content Editor could have new image options to add elements to images or objects in general, such as: Borders With color selection PaddingMarginsImage Alignment In lin...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When an instructor creates a differentiated assignment that is not linked to all students/sections in a class, they receive a warning, which requires them to confirm that they did not intend to do so:...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I currently have courses set up for each of my classes. Over the course of teaching them, several classes may share the same curricular content. Our team has build a shared collaborative course in a m...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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