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When faculty assign a Portfolium Assignment using the LTI Canvas integration, students are only added to the roster when they launch a Portfolium assignment from Canvas.   This is problematic because ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Using a rubric to grade in Canvas can be an exercise in frustration. Even the official documentation (How do I use a rubric to grade submissions in SpeedGrader?) starts by having you resize the parts ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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There is a problem when you export the grades of the gradebook to a csv file. It has to do with the decimal numbers (the comma or the point as decimal symbol). (I am not talking about the separator wi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When designing a quiz, at the moment we can have either all questions on one page or one question at a time.   It would be useful to group questions together so that different questions appear on diff...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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By "universal" I mean to not limit instructor comments to one specific course.   If I create/use a Studio video I want to use in more than one course and I add comments for students to reply to (e.g. ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We have recently started adding additional e-learning content to our courses in the form of SCORM packages (created and published using Articulate Rise). While these work beautifully on Canvas as view...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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On the old quiz format, if you went to a student's activity log during or after the quiz, you can see when the student "exited" or clicked out of the quiz. This was a very useful feature to keep stude...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The root account has an option Let sub-accounts use the Theme Editor to customise their own branding. This option applies to the entire institution.   It would be good if this option was available a...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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What I want to be able to do is attach questions to a stimulus, then create an item bank of the stimuli with the associated questions fixed to each specific stimuli, to randomise the questions. This f...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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When creating modules for a K-5 environment or even a UDL design of a module it is best practice for a designer to chunk the data into small amounts of data on each "page" of the module.  Also, a UDL ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Idea is currently in development Grading and replying to forum posts would be more efficient if both could be done from Speedgrader, instead of grading in Speedgrader and moving back to the Discussi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hi,   In the Admin Settings area in Canvas or/at the subaccount-level, we would like the ability to toggle between having the choice to have Canvas courses listed on the Dashboard that are associated ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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The People list in the admin area of an account or subaccount shows Name, Email, SIS ID and Last Login.The Last Login field shows the date of the last time a user actually carried out a login, but as,...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice, especially for support staff, if we could search on name fields and partial email addresses in the enroll dialogue.  This way if we know the person's name but not their exact user id...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I would like to have the option to remove or hide points from assignments.   This would help draw the focus towards formative comments.  The majority of assignments at our school are graded complete/i...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I enjoy the fact that canvas is making their own video quiz option. However, I have been unable to take advantage of it because there is no open-ended question option. I like to have my students answe...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In modules I indent assignments that build off of each other. I recently learned that this does not lock the assignment until the above has been completed. The only way to do this is through the "must...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I strongly suggest that Canvas return to (what I think was) the default of 1) having a Canvas multiple choice quiz question include 5 answer choices; and 2) have Canvas use the current number of choic...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi,   We would like the ability for root Canvas Catalog Administrators and Subcatalog Administrators to manually enroll students from the Canvas Catalog waitlist into Canvas Catalog courses.   A depar...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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I would like to prevent students from fast forwarding the canvas studio quiz videos.  Please allow teachers to use a toggle button to disable fast forward. Edpuzzle offers this "prevent skipping" feat...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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