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Problem statement: Students are enrolled in our courses only via SIS; lecturers/TA/etc. are not allowed to enroll students in courses themselves. However, they should be able to use sections in their ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Long ago we learned we had to turn OFF the Admin Setting that allowed Users to Edit their Name. (Students and Teachers would edit their name making it hard to find them, or making t...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our institution operates on a primary course model. We had an instructor accidentally delete a discussion question recently. Instructors are added to our courses with the role "Teac...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: As administrators, we build up the course for the lecturers in the course blueprints which are then sync out to the associated courses when term starts. In the blueprints, we have...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our institution is enterprise-scale, and as such we have many different positions dedicated to specific roles. We've discovered that it would be beneficial to provide the ability to...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, cross-listing of sections is grouped with renaming course sections and changing start and end dates of sections in the sub-permission of Course Sections - edit within the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement:   We can find users who are administrators of the platform at different levels and who are also students. When this happens, when the user accesses the course where they are a stud...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I am using Canvas Free for Teachers. My students are constantly forgetting their passwords. When they request a new one, they claim they don't receive "reset" links, even after chec...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We are trying to create a sustainable process for the creation and management of manually-created courses. We would like for school-based manual courses to be managed by the school'...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Assigning roles appropriate for these users should be separated from the account's platform administration engineering team who need what's called "Admin" in canvas. Proposed solut...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have a lot of "Admin" roles on our campus that are not full system admins. (i.e. Program Designers, Deans, Support Services, Directors, Chairs of Depts.. etc...) All of these adm...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: For groupwork activities, cannot assign more than one role to group members. Proposed solution: Would be to enable to assign multiple roles to Group members, not just Leader. User...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: At this time, Admin users do not have a full view access of all ePortfolios within the networks that they administer. In cases where a user has set their account to private, or a pa...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When combining sections into a Parent course shell using cross-list section, students are compiled into one course shell, but you have to manually click through each student's profi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our teachers do not have permission to create or manage LTI external tools for compliance/legal reasons, but if they import (or copy), that import can create external tools. The pro...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Statement: Some lecturers use crosslisting for A and B classes.  The problem is that the crosslisting function becomes broken when lecturers add themselves into a crosslisted course. As a result stude...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Add a course permission for COPY content. This was baked into the TA & Teacher role until July 2022 when someone in Canvas decided that this was a bug and lumped in use of the "copy...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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At present, if a user is enrolled both as a student and as a teacher in a course site, they are unable to edit and grade New Quizzes.  This has caused significant difficulty and confusion at my instit...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Is there a reason to hide the personal action logs and analytical data from users? If there isn't then it would be useful for induction to present their usage data and log to users as it would make th...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Based on behavior, our faculty can summarily remove a student from class for the day of removal and the next class meeting. The law that allows this was of course written without the online classroo...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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