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Problem statement: 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 teach...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Formula questions currently are either right or wrong. Partial credit should be able to be awarded if students have gone some way to answering the question. For example: A kettle ra...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Should be able to choose which week you want to view rather than having to scroll through!

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I would love a way that when you look at all the modules for each week there could be a check mark or a change in color for in the module is already done so I don't have to go back in a look each time...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Canvas is an awesome LMS. With this suggestion post, we would like to ask Instructor to consider a sequential visibility setting that allows modules to be visible by current week automatically. This w...

Community Member 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 theCanvas Release Notes (2023-10-21)  It would be great fo...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Give us the ability to turn on by default "send individual messages" when sending to more than one student.  The default should be more privacy versus less privacy. 

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Occasionally our support center deletes users or courses with usernames or SIS IDs that need to be reactivated, either by restoring a deleted object or by changing the SIS ID on the deleted object so ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Home pages are often set with information that is essential on the first day of class, but that students do not need to review every time they visit the course.  Meanwhile, getting students to move on...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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It's possible to make a module appear for students after they meet requirements (e.g. submit an assignment in a different module). This suggestion is to also allow modules to be hidden after requireme...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I am preparing to write Quizzes for my future stats students in canvas. In order for this to work I am in need of a few more standard functions in the library for Formula questions: cdf functions for ...

Community Participant 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 (2025-01-18)  Our district has a ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Emojis are only built into Canvas' Chat, but not in discussions.It would be really useful to have such a major feature integrated into discussions through a button in the text editor.Most people don't...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hot Spot is a great question type if you want students to identify a SINGLE point on an image. It would be great if there was an Question Type that allowed you to label an image. It could operate like...

Community Explorer 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 (2025-01-18)  New Quizzes reports...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Idea is currently in development Idea:  Include an option to view discussion posts alphabetically by the student's names. Ideally it's set to the same order as the course's SpeedGrader and/or Gradeb...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be great if there were a way for students to preview the assignments in a module.  My students will turn in blank assignments so that they can access the next module to see what's comping.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In the formula questions, you can select the number of decimal points a number should have, but in the preview of the generated solutions it will display with fewer decimal points if there are trailin...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice if Canvas had an option to return to the top of the module that you are working on. When you click the modules button, it takes you back to the very top of all of the modules.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I'd like to give both faculty and students the option to re-order the items on their To Do list in terms of their personal priority. As an instructor (and I assume a student) we have the option to rem...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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