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Current behavior: a student contacts faculty through Canvas Inbox. Faculty gets email notification, logs into Canvas, responds to student. Student replies, faculty gets notification, but no longer nee...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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From the Courses page, when I need to check on the course enrollments, I have to click the course name or the cog wheel to get into the course, then locate and click the People link on the left nav. P...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi, please add a nudge setting to discussions that would auto-notify students to contribute before or after a certain amount of time/days.

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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It is important for our PLC work to know the names of students who miss specific questions in New Quizzes. This option was available in Classic Quizzes. Can you please add the ability to see student n...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Similar to Assignments where you can see what modules an assignment might be listed, it would be nice to have the ability when in Quiz Banks to see if it is associated/linked to a particular quiz.

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In the Canvas app for smartphones it shows you a To-Do List that lists items that you haven't yet completed that are due within the next week or so. This is a useful reminder. What would also be usefu...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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As Admins, several items we would love to see in the Course Search feature: Add a "Show only course templates" checkbox to go along with "Show only blueprint courses"Allow wildcard searchingAllow narr...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When the Sub-Account tree shows: Institution Name1 Course14 Sub-Accounts It's very difficult to actually find that course (or those courses) in the Course search amongst the rest of the courses and ac...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When copying content from other courses, any group assignment/discussion gets assigned to "project groups" as the default. It would be nice to have a warning after import to let the user know what ass...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Currently, the override column will only show either the numerical value or the letter grade corresponding with the course grading scheme. Displaying the grade scheme letter is helpful for students to...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We have been having an issue whereby grading staff are failing to fully complete rubrics when grading work in SpeedGrader. Because the rubric is often applied with the setting 'Use this rubric for ass...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Many times in K-12, students send inappropriate content in conversations to other students.  Once they delete the message, it is not retrievable even through the API unless the recipient(s) have not d...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I've been using the Learning Mastery Gradebook for years, and only just discovered the export feature.  I still sometimes get lost in the Learning Mastery display, unable to find the button to switch ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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For those who have sections cross-listed in a Canvas course shell, Roll Call Attendance can be filtered by section for taking attendance. This is extremely helpful.  However, when creating an Attendan...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Please allow school-site admin to disable messaging for individual students. We currently have the ability to disable student-to-student messaging for all students on campus, but the need is that only...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It should be possible for an admin to view any course in the account level language instead of the course level language. I had to try and troubleshoot an issue in a French class today and it was no b...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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It is usfeul to schedule the release of assignments in future using the 'available from' features, but I would also like to be able to customise the visibility of certain details until the assignment ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When looking at a list of Item Banks, it would be useful to be able to filter the list to only show banks that included questions using certain tags. Currently, you can only filter questions within a ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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This may be an idea somewhere but I am not seeing one currently.  This feature request/idea is for there to be the ability to put a 100% cap on category weights.  For example, if you provide extra cre...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Right now, when a student or parent clicks on "View Grades" it is a laundry list of courses with the final percentage next to each one.  This is not a very user-friendly view and often confuses parent...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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