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Problem statement: Students have identified that the Notifications centre is currently quite complicated. There are 28 categories with different notification settings for each course, which, for most ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When we schedule an appointment in the Canvas calendar, students receive an email notification to sign up or book an appointment. In this notification the appointment registration l...

Channel Partner Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Right now, no notification can be turned on that alerts students to a newly published module in their course (to the best of my knowledge). I thought it would be included in the cou...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a group is used in Canvas, every teacher in the course will get notifications if students use “Announcements” in a group area. Every time a student posts an announcement (or cr...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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We would like the default email notification setting for “Content Updates” and “Files” to be off, so that students would intentionally opt in per course if they would like these updates. Some example ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be helpful to be able to write-in a short statement about what exactly was changed on an Assignment or Page so students have context for important changes to expectations, additional support ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Currently, notifications are controlled at the user level and defaulted to on. For some of our programs (sub-accounts) in Canvas, the notifications cause more problems and confusion among our students...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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My students aren't turning on notifications for Speed Grader rubric comments and video feedback. They also aren't turning on notifications for "Message Students Who" from my messages left within the G...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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As a teacher, you may want to do add lots of assignments or import assignments from Canvas Commons.  When making lots of changes to a live course, each new piece of content can trigger a notification ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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  As an account or subaccount admin, I want to set default notification settings for my users by role. Like role-based permissions, these notification settings could be locked or unlocked; that is, I ...

Instructure Alumni Canvas Ideas
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