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Problem statement: I use the video feedback in SpeedGrader daily. However, whenever I need to share my screen to give feedback to a student (on a quiz or essay, for example) I have to record the video...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: With Google Classroom, I was able to bank comments that would auto-fill when I typed comments into the comment bubbles just outside the margins of my students' essays. For example, ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students rarely notice when they get an "incomplete" assignment with feedback on what to change. Currently there isn't much difference between missing and incomplete. Proposed solu...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Allow the teacher to click and drag a saved comment in speed grader to shorten the time of grading. Turnitin already has this feature, but it would also be great to have this featur...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When Submission Comment messages are received in our institutional inbox and faculty respond, Canvas copies the entire message (including the original question/comment from the stud...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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A group of instructors in my school is utilizing the Learning Mastery Gradebook to track student learning over time.   We love it, but continue to find limitations.   The biggest one is allowing stude...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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If you select a comment from your comment library and then want to add another comment from the comment library, the first one is deleted.  It would be helpful to be able to layer comments. Our facult...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In gradebook, can we have an advanced search feature where I can filter the whole class based on the status/grade of multiple assignments? Then can we have the ability to message those students altoge...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I know there is a feature request out there to allow HTML in assignment comments, which would solve this idea. But, in case HTML in comments is not possible/feasible, I'm offering this as a separate r...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It would be an amazingly handy feature if I could send out bulk progress reports to Observers.  So, it would send each observer a progress report of their student.  Going through and doing this indivi...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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As part of my grading process I will often leave students feedback in Canvas and expect them to use that feedback to improve and resubmit their work. Previously, I used to be able to easily see my ent...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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If you make an error in typing a comment while using a rubric and then save it, there is no way to correct it later. It's possible to save a new, corrected comment, but then you have to check each tim...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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In Google Classroom I can  switch over to the Student Work view and can see their work "in progress."  I see a thumbnail sketch of every students' assignment and can quickly see who is not very far.  ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When grading papers or other file uploads from students, the ability to use formatted text in the annotation tools would be really helpful. For example, if a student is not formatting citations proper...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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All discussion posts and attachments (MS Word, PPT, PDF files, etc.) should be displayed in SpeedGrader like an assignment so that teachers can use mark-up tools to add comments to those posts and att...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would like to see this idea open for voting again. Our organization is new to Canvas 2015-16. We are just now figuring this out. When a student makes a comment on an assignment, it does not appear i...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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In providing feedback to students in the Assignment Comments area of an assignment, I often provide URLs to students.  Currently, the comments area is text only so students cannot click on the URL to ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I'd like Canvas to be able to generate a single table that shows the rubric line item scores for all students.  Then I would easily be able to tell which items students struggled most with, and plan s...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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