[ARCHIVED] [ARCHIVED] Top Two Most Important Feature Ideas/Bugs/Issues for Canvas Admins

[scottdennis]

In Canvas Feature Ideas​ the top ten ideas submissions that are tagged with admin​ are currently:

1. More granular permissions for admins (306)
2. Inactive enrollment status for withdrawn students (216)
3. Advanced Admin Search & Sort (166)
4. The ability to edit Global Announcements (164)
5. More built in reports for Canvas Admins (144)
6. Pagination for Courses List (Admin) (141)
7. Create Question Banks from MSWord (141)
8. Ability to change a users role without deleting the user (126)
9. Create Global Announcement capability at the Sub-Account level (116)
10. Extend Course for Individual Student (100)

What do you think are the top two feature ideas/bugs/weaknesses in Canvas from the perspective of admins.

Thanks,

SD

[cms_hickss]

Canvas is asking for rationales, use cases, and what we think the setting should look like for the following issue:

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Please take a moment to respond with why this permission change is important to you and your institution.

Thank you,

Susan

[cms_hickss]

I thought I would mention here as this Idea request deals with the page's ability to lock/scroll header columns as you move across the page and will become very important as the permissions page gets longer; especially when the combined permissions (add, edit, delete) are separated out. This request closes on Wednesday, January 6, 2016 and only needs 40 more votes to make it to the next phase.

[sndees]

#2 and #10, please.

[cms_hickss]

If more granular permissions are important to you, the Product Managers are asking for reasonings and use cases for each type of division of permissions.

Please take a moment to leave your institution's reasoning for wanting a permission more granular than it currently is:

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Also, there is an Idea for making the Permissions Page more efficient and user friendly:

Thank you.

[John_Lowe]

I'll add a relatively new one to this discussion:

[gschultz]

Hey Admins,

I trying to get votes for a notification report on SIS imports.  It is difficult for admin items to get votes, since there fewer of us than instructors.

Please help pass the word.  SIS Import Notifications

I would appreciate the help from other admins to get us some addition tools.

[Eric_Roussel]

#1 and 9

[gschultz]

#9 Create Global Announcement at sub account level - is already done.

Here is the link to Global Announcements ​

[cbarham]

#2 and #5 are most important to me.

[ksoper]

# 5 & #10 for our school!

[kbarth]

Definitely 1 and 3! If only one idea makes it to development I hope the more granular permissions would top the list. Please implement this!

[scottdennis]

Hi Karen,

I thought you might want to know that we recently worked with a group of community members to allocate a sizable chunk of the available development resources over the coming year and more granular permissions for admins was the top voted priority.  You can read more about the event here. And more about what the group chose here:

Khaki 2017: Priorities & Related Ideas