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@LynnCagle , First, as an Idea exchange there are probably too many distinct ideas to include in one posting.  I'm going to try to address most of your items though and point you to some existing ideas already related to this. Before I begin though I want to point out something with respect to comparing features to another product.  I've been through many LMS transitions over the years and it's never easy.  Especially if you try to use the new LMS in the same way you used the previous one.  An LMS often can't do things the exact same way as another because intellectual property.  In fact, the particular LMS you mention has been notorious for filing lawsuits against other companies in these types of cases.  So with changing to new systems in general it's often about finding how things are done in this new system rather than trying to do it the same way as the other system.  It can be frustrating and taking time, but I've found that method to create the best success with faculty moving from one LMS to another. Now on to the specifics; Column Order and editing.  You are correct that rubrics are bit rigid in terms of editing them.  Not only is it difficult or impossible to change the order or the ratings, it's also problematic to change the order of the Criteria after they have been created. The ordering of ratings from highest to lowest is something I'd say is just a difference between Bb and Canvas and just something to get used to.  I couldn't find any existing ideas to allow the editing or changing of ratings order, but there are existing ideas for better ability to edit, such as reordering the criteria.  https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Editing-Capabilities-for-Rubrics/idi-p/364589 There is also already and Idea and discussion around being able to edit a rubric attached to multiple assignments https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Allow-global-rubric-editing/idi-p/380291 The issue about not having Rubrics visible in a discussion the way they are in Assignments is something I've spoken to a bit.  I'm not disagreeing with you that it should be consistent and viewed the same as with assignments, but I've also struggled with where it would go.  If you have it display below the instructions and before the posts, it will push the posts further down the page and require more scroll to get to them, especially with long rubrics.  If you put the rubric below the posts then after a bunch of student posts it gets buried.  I have to think that is one reason Canvas built it the way they did, to keep it out of the way for accessing the posts themselves.  There have been ideas and discussions already on this topic and here is a link to the main one https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Display-Discussion-Rubrics-by-Default/idi-p/373770 Regarding points, range, etc and instructions... I think the guides are pretty clear on how they work https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-add-a-rubric-in-a-course/ta-p/842.  And I have to disagree with you about points adding up to 100. While I personally like to have assignments worth 100 points, move faculty I've worked with do not.  I see assignments worth 5, 10, 25, 73, and even 25000 points in some courses so rubrics need to be able to be created to accommodate all point options, not just 100 points.   So, some things to think about.  Canvas can't just be turned into working like Bb or any other LMS for reasons I already mentioned but improvements can certainly be made.  However, I'd suggest first "living" in the Canvas world of how those items work for a bit and then with any ideas/feature requests really think how they fit into the existing scheme of the Canvas environment. Rick ... View more

@CarrieMallon , I just want to clarify what you are asking because it wasn't clear to me on the first read.  Within the Rich Content Editor, which is used throughout Canvas, you'd like the option with ordered lists to use lowercase letters instead of just capital letters.  Right now the six options for ordered list are closed round bullets, open round bullets, closed square bullets, numbers, capital letters, roman numerals.     I agree it would be nice to have that option.  For now as a workaround though let me tell you how you can manually make that change in case you are not aware of this.   Create your list using the Capital Letter ordered list option.  Click the icon in the lower right corner to view and edit the html and find the list.  It will look something like this. <p>Here is a list</p> <ol style="list-style-type: upper-alpha;"> <li>one</li> <li>two</li> <li>three</li> </ol> Simply change the word "upper" to "lower" and that should do the trick.  I know it doesn't fill the need of your request but at least it might be an easy work around while Instructure considers making this a change to the RCE options. Rick Murch-Shafer ... View more

Jenny, I don't know all of the details of your sections but are you sure that cross-listing won't work?  In a cross listed course with multiple sections you can still send announcements, create discussions, quizzes and assignments to individual sections.  For example, let's say you have 3 sections cross listed together, but each of their own version of an assignment (or quiz, or discussion).  In the Assign To portion of each version of the assignment you can specify which section it belongs to.  You would see all 3 versions of the assignments but students would only see the ones assigned to sections they belong to.   But, assuming there are other reasons why you can't cross list, I'm still confused why you can just use the Copy to option once for each section.  From my experience when you "copy to" for something like an assignment, if there are any linked pages or files those will also get copied along with the assignment.  I don't think you would need to copy the pages individually as long as you were linking to them from in the assignment. Rick         ... View more

@aprimack , I think I know what you are talking about, but by any chance can you post a screenshot showing it?  Is this a case where you can't get to some of the course navigation buttons at the bottom like Settings? Reading back I see you mention something about a "multicourse message utility".  To my knowledge Canvas does not have such a feature, but there is a 3rd party product by Qwickly which does this https://www.goqwickly.com/course-tools/.  If this is what you are talking about the issue is likely with their code and not Canvas itself, but a screenshot would still be helpful. Rick ... View more

@MelissaIllingwo, Let's start with some of your last comments regarding Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes.  From your descriptions I can tell that you are using Classic Quizzes.  In New Quizzes Question Banks have been replaced by Item Banks and generally speaking they are easier to manage and pull into a quiz.  Along those some lines, for the most part Canvas is not doing any further development with Classic quizzes, so while your points and frustrations are valid I don't know that changes within Classic Quizzes to address them will happen. Having said that I have at least a few suggestions.  You say that when you click to Find Questions it's showing all of your Question Banks and you only want to see the ones in that course.  The default behavior in Classic Quizzes in this case is to only show question banks in that class AND any questions banks you have Bookmarked.  Try this, in your course go to Manage Question banks and click the View Bookmarked Banks button on the right.  Any banks listed here will always show when you click the Find button to add questions.  To unbookmark a bank, click the icon to the right of it so that the X goes away.  If you unbookmark them all, then the only one which will show are the ones actually in the course you are working on.  With New Quizzes and the use of Item Banks this does change and I'm not sure you will like it.  Item Banks are tied to individual users instead of courses so you will always see all of your item banks when adding from them.  However, these Item Banks show more details, are searchable, and even have filtering options now for question type and tags.  I'd suggest you talk to one of your local Canvas Admins to figure out how your school is planning to roll out New Quizzes and when.  At my school we have them enabled so instructors can choose to use New Quizzes if they want, but have not done any sort of large push yet.  Some schools are still blocking instructors from using them yet and some others have already moved fully to New Quizzes.  So it's a little difficult to advise you on that aspect without knowing how your school is handling it.   Rick             ... View more