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Parent Observers should not be able to see the student's assignment other than the grade and/or feedback from the instructor. Giving observers access to the work student's have turned in feels like a ...

Community Coach 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 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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We have students who audit a course. We don't want them and the teacher to know they don't have to do the assignment, but if a student chooses to do it, they can.  Excusing assignments shows the teach...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When you create an assignment or quiz in Canvas, all dates (available, due, and until dates) are null.  If published in this state, the item has no dates listed anywhere and is always available for st...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi, everyone! Canvas Admin here.  Today I had an instructor that unexpectedly received a new CRN. Before her old shell expired, we were able to retrieve the zip files for two of her ungraded assignmen...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Our district has a new policy where missing work gets a 50% F, but we can't enter the grade until two weeks after the due date.  The gradebook will already post a specified grade for missing assignmen...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When an online submission assignment is created, and "file upload" is chosen, our district has 10 options for submitting a file (because of some additional apps we have installed). This is very overwh...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I love the new Student Annotation feature; there are so many applications for student use! However, there is no way for students to revise that assignment (which really seems to be an issue for ALL as...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We have had several faculty request the ability to set up an Assignment or Discussion or Quiz to award points for ANY SUBMISSION.  So the student would get a 0 for no submission and full points for an...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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  Is it possible to reorder the Due Date, Available Until, & Module? It seems like students get confused by reading the Available Until date first and Due Date last? Also, is there anyway to BOLD the ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When a moderated assignment is set up it is required to specify a "moderator" who decides the final mark. When that person views an assignment submission, their perspective of the assignment is to pro...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I'm using an online OER textbook. I'd like to assign students to read a chapter each week. Right now, I do this by adding a page, typing the information into the page along with a link to the chapter,...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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The Direct Share feature, specifically the "Copy To" feature has been great! I have a couple little requests to tweak it. It doesn't include the ability to remove dates like the "Import Course Content...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I have just discovered the "Reassign" button. Can we consider adding another functions? With the "reassign" button, either allow instructor to change due & close date for that specific student, or bum...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Add to rules on Assignment Categories to not drop assignments until after there are x more than the rule... When setting up rules within assignments to drop x number of assignments there should be a s...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In "Edit Assignment", please sort the different due dates. In a self-pacing class, I’ve created many assignments that are meant to be drafts toward a bigger project, and will frequently bounce the ass...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I was under the impression that students could see how many attempts they had for all assignments- but apparently they do not! For example, when I assign a Google Cloud Assignment (notes) I allow unli...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When an instructor creates a differentiated assignment that is not linked to all students/sections in a class, they receive a warning, which requires them to confirm that they did not intend to do so:...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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A setting I would find very helpful would be to allow or prevent late submissions based on the due date.  I have stopped using the available/unavailable date in assignments for a few reasons. Mainly, ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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