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Problem statement: When adding an outcome to a rubric, there does not appear to be a way to format the text of the outcome criteria or ratings. Evidently this was possible before the recent update. Ev...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: You can't see which assignments have rubrics unless you go into a student view of the gradebook Proposed solution: Add rubric indicators to the assignment list under Assignments an...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Using outcomes is a good way to check that students are meeting SLOs or MLOs and offer a good addition to or part of a rubric. However, outcomes can clash when not graded with a rub...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When an instructor is creating a Rubric and clicks off that rubric to edit the actual assignment, all the work that they did to that rubric disappears. For instance, if you have an ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Rubric ranges are only available if faculty at a per-rubric level select the small check box per criteria that says "Range." This is a lot of manual clicks for faculty. Proposed so...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When instructors copy/transfer their rubrics from course to course, their saved comments in the rubrics don't carry over leading to a great deal of frustation and time spent on recr...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In order to edit a rubric attached to multiple assignments, you have to delink the rubric to achieve a 1-to-1 ratio between the assignment and rubric. Then, you can edit the rubric....

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I frequently teach different sections of the same courses, both simultaneously within the same term, and also across different terms. With so many students moving through these cour...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have programs that want to use Outcomes to track how well their courses are aligning with the expected student outcomes in the courses. However, they do not want students to see ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, when an instructor attaches an Outcome to a Rubric they have the option to uncheck the box to "Use this criterion for scoring". However, the points associated with the Ou...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I like the the new  Comments Library feature.  I would like to see it expanded so that the library would also be accessible in the Comments within a rubric.  I use rubrics for grading just about every...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I would like to suggest that when a rubric is deleted from an assignment it doesn't get completed deleted from the course.  It makes no sense that it would be completed deleted.  If I hadn't verified ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Several times I have been working on an assignment rubric, then switch back to the assignment to add some detail or make some other edit. I do this, of course, without thinking about the fact that rub...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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You should be able to go from low to high score or high to low score on rubrics.  Probably one of the most difficult items to complete the way it is (range is a good option but there is a lot of playi...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Hi   I am using the rubric to grade in speegrader. However, in the speedgrader panel the rubric descriptions are enlarging the table making it hard to view the entire rubric.   After a while, I don't ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This idea suggests additional improvements to Canvas rubrics so they conform with conventional rubric design. Although the updated rubric features were improved from the original Canvas release, some ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to be able to format the content in the "Rating Description" box. For example, a lot of my school's rubrics are holistic, requiring us to break down each level into multiple facets. B...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Similar to a previously archived idea here: (Create rubrics offline and then upload.), it would be very, very helpful to be able to create a rubric offline and then import it into either the course or...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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  Idea open for vote Wed. January 6, 2016 - Wed. April 6, 2016  Learn more about voting...       It would  be easier when creating rubrics and outcomes if the "Ratings" scale could be inherited for ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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