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Problem statement: A Canvas site may want to configure an LTI 1.3 tool that is used only by instructors. They may want this tool to be available in a standardized location, like the User Account page ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have instances where 1 section needs access to Zoom and other sections are in person. I would like to be able to assign the Zoom only to those who are in the online instance, but...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the LTI Report available for account admins does not include the External Tool ID for the listed tools. The External Tool ID acts as the unique identifier for a tool. It'...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently there is an undocumented property that can be set on LTI placements to get Canvas to perform a permission check before launching the tool. This property (required_permissi...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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After speaking with one our education specialists about a recent integration request, I thought it would be very helpful to be able to deploy an integration or app to a course based on an attribute of...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Since apps can be difficult (or impossible) to restore when deleted at the site level, it would be nice if there was a disable feature.  If this prevented new instances of the app being used while pre...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This request is for institutions that do local LTI tool development.  Like Instructure's Prd, Test, and Beta envirobments, most schools maintain at least two and often three separate environments for ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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There are many configuration parameters for LTIs (see the external tools API docs) that are only available to change/edit through either the API or through editing XML (LTI 1.0/1.11) / JSON (LTI 1.3)....

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Inherited LTI keys are nice because there's no need to manage LTI configuration settings. However, there is no way to manage whether individual placements are enabled or disabled. One glaring example ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Our K-12 institution was recently exploring the option to enable Canvas Chat in our instance and would love to be able to set Chat to "Allow" in the account level admin panel so that teachers can togg...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Our K-12 institution was recently exploring the option to enable Canvas Chat in our instance and would love for the ability to turn this feature on for select sub-accounts within our instance and not ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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When canvas chat is turned on, it was explained to me that by default it is enabled for all courses in the account.  Below, I have explained reasons why Canvas Chat should be initially disabled by def...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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