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Problem statement: When downloading a submission from Speedgrader (using the annotated document download), the student name is not currently added to the download (like it is when using the bulk downl...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It would be nice if when making a Global Announcement to be able to select which sub-accounts should receive the announcement. Many times I need the announcement only to go to High ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Statement: Some lecturers use crosslisting for A and B classes.  The problem is that the crosslisting function becomes broken when lecturers add themselves into a crosslisted course. As a result stude...

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Problem statement: A semester-long project is introduced at the beginning of the semester. Students are given a page which gives instructions for the project. At the end of the semester, students subm...

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Problem statement: At the root account level, we have the setting checkbox option "Don't let teachers modify course availability dates". We would like to have this setting option for sub-accounts. We ...

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Problem statement: Add a course permission for COPY content. This was baked into the TA & Teacher role until July 2022 when someone in Canvas decided that this was a bug and lumped in use of the "copy...

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It would be a good idea to preventing markers from changing grades on canvas after they have been released, this feature should only be available to module leaders. 

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It would be extremely helpful if a new column with the Outcome Group name were added to the account-level reports named "Outcome Results" and "Student Competencies".  At our institutions, it's quite c...

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Here's the dilemma: Quizzes have time limits, but PDFs attached in them cannot be annotated on in SpeedGrader. File submissions allow you to annotate in SpeedGrader, but there's no time limit.  What w...

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If an instructor accidentally clicks the "Reassign Assignment" button in SpeedGrader, there is not a way to undo the action. Please provide an option to undo the action. Here is the link to the "Reass...

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After speaking with one our education specialists about a recent integration request, I thought it would be very helpful to be able to deploy an integration or app to a course based on an attribute of...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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The documented Mastery Path API only includes the ability to select a mastery path: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/modules.html#method.context_module_items_api.select_mastery_path By itself, t...

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In (Classic) Quizzes, we have a feature that disables the auto-submit feature of the quiz; however, reviewing the students' times on the quiz is cumbersome. The only way to view how long the student t...

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Many institutions have late policies for assignments, discussions, and quizzes. These late policies are unique for the institution and encourage students to submit work by the due date. For assignment...

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Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same need, please feel free to comment. We'd love to hear your thoughts. Need The canvas gradebook should...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hello, posting this on behalf of an academic:   I have a cohort of 350+ students and would like to use moderated marking with this group, involving a relatively large group of moderators (around 40-50...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Would be helpful to have these dates in the Provisioning Report. I can go to Canvas Data for this info, but that's 24 to 48 hours old. Adding these fields to a live, on-demand, report seems trivial an...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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When you have Synced assignment groups to the SIS, an "Imported" icon (which looks like an arrow on a page) appears next to the Assignment Group name.   This helps Teachers and System Admins quickly i...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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I am a college student. It is currently impossible to configure email rules to handle the wide variety of email being sent from Canvas (such as notifications@instructure.com). Email rules do not permi...

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Where an Assignment's availability is the same as the deadline, and a student tries to make a late submission it shows a popup error message, which would be better phrased, but where the availability ...

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