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Can we add a button to Speedgrader which allows you to navigate back to your Dashboard or your To-do list?  Often when you're completing tasks on your To-Do list it takes you to the task and there's not a quick way to return to your to-do list.  This is inconvenient when you have one or two submissions to mark across multiple assignments. ... View more

Thanks Stefanie! ... View more

No, what I mean is, the interface is clunky when using an external tool in assignment for submission type and it has discouraged a lot of teachers from using it. The current process is 1. Change submission type to "External tool" and then click "Find" - The word "find" is confusing as it doesn't seem to describe what you're doing, it should say "Select tool" or even better, the list that pops up in step 2 should just automatically pop up when you select "External Tool". 2. Find the tool from a tiny window that has two scrollable pages. (1 for all of the tools, another to scroll down and choose select) Select your tool, but don't click the "Select button" until you're done. 3. Set up your external tool (I've used Google LTI which is in my experience has really been the only tool used 99% of the time) and click "Create" 4. Then you're taken back to the screen you were on for step 2! Now I know if I scroll down it's added a link there for me to link to the external tool, but for most teachers, this is not intuitive at all, Can we make it so that this step is skipped altogether and it just goes to step 5 once it recognises there's a URL in the dialogue box? 5. After clicking select you're all of a sudden back on the assignments page with a URL in the external toolbox without a sense of "Tool Created" and it's a URL that can be easily edited and deleted although there's never any reason to edit it.  I mean, this current process I can do, I am tech-savvy. Is it intuitive? No. Are there any unnecessary clicks? Definitely. Is the process logical to a non-tech savvy person or even someone who has used Google Classroom previously? Absolutely not.  By cleaning this process up, you will genuinely see an improvement in the adoption of Canvas in schools.   ... View more

You can edit this already. Go to Cour settings and scroll to the bottom and click "More options" it opens this page to allow customisation of announcements on the Home Page. ... View more

When you create a new item, can there be an option to take you directly to the edit page?  I would suggest that the majority of people who create a new item would like to edit it straight away.  It's annoying to click the "+" at the top of modules to create a new item and then to have to find that item and scroll down to the bottom.  I propose that when you click "Add Item" there should be a "Add item and Edit" button, to avoid unnecessary clicks and increase the intuitive nature of Canvas.  One constant criticism of Canvas Vs Google classroom is that it isn't as nearly as intuative and this simple adjustment would improve this divide and increase the day-to-day productivity of teachers. ... View more