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Problem statement: In Canvas, 'delete' and 'remove' mean different things. Deleting means the content no longer appears anywhere in the course (but can be recovered if you know how or contact support). 'Remove' means taking an item out of a module, but not actually deleting it from the course. The exception being things like headers and links in modules, which don't exist anywhere else. The steps to remove an item from a module are: 1. Go to the menu for the item and click "REMOVE" 2. See a popup with the message: "Are you sure you want to REMOVE this item from the module?" and click "OK" 3. See a confirmation message saying: "Module item ... was successfully DELETED" Clearly, the confirmation message doesn't fit with rest of the workflow. With the exception of headers and links, the content wasn't deleted, it was removed, so saying it was deleted causes confusion and panic ("Oh no, I've deleted something by mistake") As is often the case, I think this is a bug, but Canvas support seem to think that it needs an idea to get it fixed. Proposed solution: Change the word 'deleted' to 'removed' in the confirmation message you see when you have removed something from a module (but not deleted it from the course). If you want to be really clever about it, you would use 'remove' throughout the UI for content items (pages, files, assignments, etc) that still exist in the course after they have been removed, and 'delete' throughout for content items (headers, links, etc) that are completely deleted from the course by the same process because they only exist in the context of the module. User role(s): admin,instructor,designer ... View more

Problem statement: When using New Quizzes as the test student, quiz attempts are saved and included in reports, etc, as you would expect and want when testing the quiz. However, because New Quizzes is really just an LTI tool pretending to be an integrated tool in Canvas, when you reset the test student, the attempts are not deleted from New Quizzes. As well as cluttering up the results, this means that the test student's attempts continue to affect the overall data for the quiz, e.g. item analysis stats and outcomes. This is annoying and obviously inconsistent with the behaviour in other parts of Canvas. Proposed solution: When the test student is reset, delete their attempts from New Quizzes. This will remove their attempts, prevent test attempts affecting the overall data, and bring the tool inline with the rest of the 'submission' tools in Canvas. User role(s): admin,instructor,ta ... View more

This is a re-creation of Paul Rettey's original idea: https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/11182-display-file-upload-progress-bar-for-students-uploading-assignment-submissions" modifiedtitle="true" title="Display file upload progress bar for students uploading assignment submissions, which was archived. I believe this is an important UI/UX consideration.    From here on is the text/images copied directly from the original idea... At the moment when a student submits a file for an assignment there is no file upload progress displayed, instead students see the button 'Submitting...'   If a student is submitting a media file that is quite large it would be very useful to the student to see a file upload progression bar. This will tell the student the file is being uploaded or if the upload has stalled.   Something like this would be useful: Perhaps with numerical feedback indicating speed of upload / amount uploaded / amount remaining.    Thank you This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas For more information, please read through the Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-07-01) . ... View more

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas For details, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2020-01-18)‌ The current upload process for file upload assignment submission is pretty clunky for students, as they have to choose each file individually by browsing to it in their file system.    Students expect to be able to just drag multiple files in. This is supported for uploads to the Files area, so I don't see why it shouldn't be for submissions as well.   A related idea is allowing selection of multiple files when choosing from the file system: https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/13505-allow-for-students-to-select-multiple-files-by-using-shift-key-to-upload-without-selecting-them-one-at-a-time  ... View more