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Problem statement: In the gradebook, it would be easier to flag students who are struggling if I could visually see it. The grades can be sorted, but if I want to keep students in alpha order, it woul...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Many districts, including the last two in which I've worked, have a corrections policy for students. This policy allows student to correct any failed (<70) assignment for up to a ma...

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Problem statement: Once anonymous grading is turned on for a New Quiz, it cannot be turned off, even if the quiz has not yet been published and no students have taken it. If this setting is accidental...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I am constantly writing out the same comments in the grading pane (not the comment pane) in pdf assignments. This is tedious and repetitive. Proposed solution: [1] Allow access to ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a user selects Set Default Grade 0, a pop-up window appears listing the number of students affected and one option..."OK". It does not permit the user to cancel this action. Pl...

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Problem statement: Instructors who opt for Labor-Based Contract Grading need the flexibility to add the "lateness" feature to Complete/Incomplete assignments. Students also need to see in the gradeboo...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When an instructor changes their assignment's Display Grade as from Points to Complete/Incomplete after grading some students—the already graded students can unfairly get lower scor...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When entering grades for an assignment category that will drop the lowest grades at the end of the semester, if a student has not completed the assignment because they know the lowest grades will be d...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Here's the dilemma: Quizzes have time limits, but PDFs attached in them cannot be annotated on in SpeedGrader. File submissions allow you to annotate in SpeedGrader, but there's no time limit.  What w...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi Canvas Community! We'd like to share this request for improvement with you. If you have the same need, please feel free to comment. We'd love to hear your thoughts. Need The canvas gradebook should...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The K-12 district I work in, and many of the districts around me, have made the move to using our LMS as the place to house our day-to-day grades. With that transition, we have noticed a number of gra...

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Currently, the override column will only show either the numerical value or the letter grade corresponding with the course grading scheme. Displaying the grade scheme letter is helpful for students to...

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When I start to correct a new discussion in general I have no need for many of my previous discussion library comments. I would like to efficiently delete discussion comments that are no longer applic...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In Canvas, I have to open another browser tab so I can refer to my instructions to students while I'm grading. In BbLearn these would appear in an expandable window at the top of the thing I was gradi...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I am looking for the grade display setting in the gradebook to apply to Speedgrader as well.    I give a weekly vocabulary quiz that is out of 55 points, but need to manually calculate student percent...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Currently, when weighting grading periods, we are only able to use the All Grading Periods label to view our weighted grading periods totals. Since our SIS, PowerSchool, creates S1 & S2 grading period...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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One benefit of mastery connect was an option to do a quick-add of a score on a standard without having to actually create an assignment. So many times, teachers will have conversations with students a...

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Are there any plans for additional grade visibility settings in C4E? Our use case may be too specific, but this is our situation: primary grade (K-2) receive I, W, or N on their report card, which doe...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Items in the grade book are available for sync with SIS. However, sections are not in the sync and individuals are not available for sync. Why not mimic assignments' ability to be allowed to sync with...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It would be great if you could access on the Rich Content Editor tools when adding text into the new Feedback Library, or at the very least have the ability to add a linked URL. Currently URL's aren't...

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