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Post Annotations and Grades Separately It would be extremely beneficial to have the ability to post feedback separately from posting grades. This is an extension of a previous idea on the community: h...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Please include Eportfolio Moderation additions in administrative notifications, or create a separate administrative notification for Eportfolio Moderation additions. The notification would also be sub...

Community Champion 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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This idea is to add the ability to download each student's responses to essay questions on a quiz formatted the same way we already bulk download all assignment submissions.    In online courses, essa...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I want students to work from the Modules and complete work in the order on the Module.  This ensures student learning progresses in a sound pedagogical order.  The student To Do list completely sabota...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Challenge: Surveys still look like quizzes In the current version of Canvas (December 2019), students have to click a button that says 'Submit Quiz' to submit a survey. Surveys also turn up in the Qui...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In New Gradebook, instructors intuit incorrectly that Hide and Post replace Mute/Unmute. They believe these actions affect future grades. They do not know to look for the Grade Posting Policy.   Impr...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Feature Request:  Pop up a warning when navigating away from editing a quiz to give instructors a chance to change the total points that are in the gradebook.  The warning should be similar to one tha...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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There are several added flexibilities I would like to see added to the late penalty policy, as a correction to the apparent unfairness described by Timothy Lim, "The automatic late submission penalty...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Faculty expect the Eye Icon in SpeedGrader to work the same as the old Mute/Unmute feature, but it does not.   We recently discovered that if an assignment has the Automatic Post Policy applied and yo...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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We recently discovered that if an assignment has the Automatic Post Policy applied and you hide grades, it is only hiding the grades that exist at the time you click Hide Grades. Grades you enter afte...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Multiple faculty in have requested the following enhancement for assessments in Quizzes.Next.  In Canvas Quizzes.Next there's no way for the quiz to be due at a particular time, and be considered "sub...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Instructure has decided that course designers should not be able to create or edit New Quizzes. The purpose of the designer role is to create and maintain course content, so making designers unable to...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When an instructor migrates a quiz using the option on the quiz page in Canvas, the questions will only exist in the quiz. In order to get the questions in an item bank, the instructor must edit each ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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To reduce the number of clicks to post grades for assignments utilizing a manual posting policy, make the eye icon above the assignment in the gradebook clickable.   This would streamline the current ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi everyone,   We have noticed that when trying to enroll for a course in Canvas Catalog on a mobile device (cell phone or tablet) that there is a ton of scrolling involved. We would like to have Canv...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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For the current (old?) quizzes the API makes it easy to identify courses that contain quizzes. However, with New Quizzes there is currently no way to use the Canvas API to determine which courses are ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Hi,   When testing Canvas Catalog listings to determine whether our payment gateway was activated in our beta catalog instance I wanted to test the listing link on my iPhone XR in Google Chrome. I sel...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Hi,   We would like the ability to add or remove admins from subaccounts at the root level.     Adam SmithCollege of EducationAccount AdminAdd    RemoveJoe SmithSchool of Public HealthAccount AdminAd...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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The Canvas support team has a link on a users profile that "clears the user's cache".   So far this has fixed issues when the items don't display on the course navigation or courses do not display in ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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