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Problem statement: An instructor would want to see the history of all instructor-made modification of an assessment, whether it is a quiz or assignment, basically a log file that shows who did what an...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I am responsible to create all of the course associations from our Blue Prints.  I don't see a way to "Lock ALL of the Modules" in one fail swoop. It would be a huge time saver for myself and probably...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When you use the Blueprint feature in Canvas you get a sync log to show which child courses were successfully updated. It also shows which ones could not be updated. If there was a way to download tha...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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To display the last modified date when any files are added/removed/updated to the respective folders..    (Why: It help track if any new changes were made and when)There already seems to be a column/ ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be awesome if Canvas allowed instructors to restore their new quizzes to previous "versions" after edits/changes are made. This would be similar to Google docs where you could write up a enti...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When a rubric is edited at the sub-account or course level the criteria and rating descriptions update for feedback already delivered to students. This creates a situation where we don't have proper v...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently, as an instructor, after we make changes on an assignment page and hit save, we can't recover it. That would be interesting to have access to either a history of edits (version control?) or ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Right now, if you import the same content from the commons into a course you have already imported into, it does not make a new copy of the content.  This is a desirable behavior for fully fleshed out...

Instructure Canvas Ideas
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