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Canvas new quiz formula questions, should have a setting so that only combinations with whole numbers will be allowed. Sometimes I don't want answers to have crazy decimals, so only have numbers that ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Formula questions should be able to select all even or odd numbers between a range. Right now it has to be a straight range, but I want to see more options within that range. Even, odds, every third, ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Numeric answers in canvas quizzes should include a rich content editorFor example, students can type in ℼwhen finding the diameter

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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My county did a wonderful job pre-loading Modules for the ELA dept. However, it is a huge pain when you are looking for a Module to publish or un-publish and you're scrolling through so many items. It...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I would love for my students t be able to access modules, assignments, pages through just my homepage even though I have disabled the assignment, module, pages link in the course navigation. I wanted ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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The formula based questions are an essential tool for math based courses, but there is a big limiting factor. Formula questions work on a set of defined variables input by the teacher. I would like to...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I  am updating my course for the upcoming academic year and I have stumbled upon a major roadblock regarding quizzes.  With the Classic Quizzes set to disappear next summer, it doesn't seem worth my w...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I would like to see a formula question where the variable values can be generated by a formula, and does not necessarily have to be numeric.  Likewise, answers do not necessarily have to be numeric.  ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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There needs to be a way to set up a formula question so that a variable can pick from a set, rather than simply being assigned a random value in a range.  For example, if I wrote a question which says...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Working at the Elementary level, having all of the old work and assignments displayed on the module page will just become more and more difficult for students to navigate to find their current assignm...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2023-10-21)  I created a series ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I'm not sure if there is already a way to do this but it would be nice if the last page of the module instead of saying "Next" and going to a new module it said "Home" and took you back to the home pa...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Elementary Modules need to be able to work differently than secondary or college level. Students do not always move through modules. We need a way to put an end page to a module or a stop button so st...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Can something be added so that students can be given a table or equation and then they put points on a graph or move a line on the graph to match the table or equation.  At this point, some of our sta...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We have graphics on our home page which link directly to the different modules in our course and when we click it takes us to the module page but you can also see all of the other modules at the same ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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As we move from Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes, I would love to have the option to add a "Text (no question)" question type in a New Quiz (as we have in Classic Quizzes). This opens the opportunity to...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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We would like to see in the New Quizzes for the Stimulus question the ability to upload a file and preview that file so students can read the PDF while answering the questions.  I have several teacher...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Many of our fully-online courses (particularly in science and math) require that students draw a diagram or process in their assessments, and when combined with proctoring tools, this becomes a compli...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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A feature in Hot Spot that would really benefit our students is the ability to have multiple hot spots in a single image. Eg: English students being able to go an image of text and identifying multipl...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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With the new "Color Overlay" feature for course card images in this weeks Beta Release Notes, I think there should be a way to set the default behavior at an account level (edit: not subaccount level,...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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