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Problem statement: Particularly an issue in courses with a large number of enrolments per instructor, it's not always practicable to message large number of students from an individual account. This c...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I am a Canvas admin for a college and recently had two faculty members that have the Canvas role of "teacher" not be able to access commons.  One has an active Spring 2022 enrollment and does not have...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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The ability to copy a list of emails (separated by commas) into the "Send to.." field on the content sharing page would be a game changer for sharing content more widely. At this time colleague email ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be really great if teachers that were manually added to courses, not via SIS, could remove themself from the course. Especially when we have guest teachers and substitutes.  Thank you.   

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Our instructors and TAs need the ability to add people (non-students) to past courses, such as new faculty, so they can review prior course content. Once a course has ended (by term or by date), peopl...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Although you can set up a course to include multiple sections and you can even constrain teachers and TAs such that they can only interact with students within their section.  There is no way currentl...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Currently, when a moderator selects the final grade, only feedback made by the grader who gave that mark is made available to students.  This creates problems in some circumstances (e.g. this post in ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We have many different instructors/teachers in one course. It would be helpful if assignments are linked to one specific instructor, or several specific instructors. This way, only the relevant instru...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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There needs to be a way to copy assignments to multiple courses instead of one at a time. It is time-consuming for teachers. Going to Commons is time-consuming as well. We should be able to create an ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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SpeedGrader documentation ( https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-12774-415255021 ) states that only one grader from a course can work in SpeedGrader at a time. Users report that not all grades and...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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