What are Course Feature Options?
Course Feature Options are settings and functionality that an instructor can enable or disable for their Canvas site to add additional functionality.
Where to Manage Course Feature Options?
Course Feature Options can be discovered by clicking on the Settings link at the bottom of the course-level Navigation menu, then clicking on the Feature Options tab.
The following are Course Feature Options that can be turned on and off in a Canvas site by people assigned Teacher role. The Default State column indicates whether a feature is ON or OFF in courses managed by a person in the Teacher role. The On / Off state of a course feature can be changed on the Feature Options page in a course.
See Canvas Guide: How Do I Manage Feature Options for a Course?
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COURSE FEATURE AND DESCRIPTION
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DEFAULT STATE
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Anonymous Instructor Annotations
Anonymize all instructor comments and annotations within DocViewer
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Off
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Disable Classic Quiz Creation
Use New Quizzes as the default quizzing engine when creating a quiz. Removes the ability to create classic quizzes.
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Off
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Discussion Summary
Summarize discussions using AI.
Learn more about this feature: Canvas: Discussion Summary
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Off
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Emojis in Submission Comments
Adds an emoji picker that allows students and teachers to add emojis to their submission comments.
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On
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ePub Exporting
This enables users to generate and download course content as an ePub for offline viewing of course materials.
Learn more about this feature: Canvas: Sharing Site Content as an Archive or an ePub
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On
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Learning Mastery Gradebook
Learning Mastery Gradebook provides a way for teachers to quickly view student and course progress on course learning outcomes. Outcomes are presented in a Gradebook-like format and student progress is displayed both as a numerical score and as mastered/near mastery/remedial.
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Off
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Outcome Service Results to Canvas Reporting
Allows result data stored in the Outcomes Service to display in Canvas reporting (LMGB, sLMGB and outcome related admin reporting).
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On
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Preserve Group Set During Assignment or Discussion Copy
When copying a group assignment or discussion topic to another course, a group set set with the same name is created in the destination course if no matching group set exists
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Off
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Smart Search
AI driven smart search feature.
Learn more about this feature: Canvas: Smart Search
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Off
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Student Learning Mastery Gradebook
Student Learning Mastery Gradebook provides a way for students to quickly view progress on course learning outcomes. Outcomes are presented in a Gradebook-like format and progress is displayed both as a numerical score and as mastered/near mastery/remedial.
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Off
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Submission Stickers
Allows teachers to attach stickers to student submissions. Requires the "Assignment Enhancements - Student" feature flag to be enabled.
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Off
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How to get additional help?
For technical support, contact Instructure Support by 24/7 phone [+1-833-890-4166] or email support@instructure.com. For pedagogical support schedule a consultation with a DLINQ team member.