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Problem statement: The only way to add a student/faculty member to a Canvas course is to use their email address or ID number. I would like a way to add people to a course using their name, so that it...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, when a user account is suspended, the only visual indicator I am aware of is on the Admin view of the user account page, where red exclamation mark appears within in a re...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a link is 'featured' in the help menu, the panda with the map shows up. This panda is not very specific to the link that is featured, making the 'featured' link actually less v...

Channel Partner Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In our previous LMS, we had it configured to enroll users into non-academic course sites. These include ones for health and wellness, student resources, faculty resources etc. We we...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently to set/update a user's institution-assigned email address, it requires an SIS Import. However, there is no indicator in the API nor provisioning reports of what a user's i...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, if an Admin enters a list of pronoun sets into the Personal Pronouns field there is no options to reorder how the list appears in the dropdown to the users (student/teach...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Background and problem There was a change to the course availability dates in March 2021. At our university we just now discovered 761 old courses that have their own start date, but no end date. This...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It appears that default course sections don't receive SIS IDs when a course is created. If this is true, then this means that during standard operation, a Canvas instance will start to accumulate mult...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Here's something that's irk'ed me for a few years... We allow access by Students and Instructors to the last 9 semesters of courses.  We always have this issue for Instructors when a Term Ends: "I hav...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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As an admin, I am often copying courses within Canvas. Whenever I copy a course, I am automatically enrolled as a teacher in the course which can become irritating. I do not need to be a teacher in th...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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The Canvas support team has a link on a users profile that "clears the user's cache".   So far this has fixed issues when the items don't display on the course navigation or courses do not display in ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Account Roles created at the root-account level automatically 'trickle down' to the sub-accounts and there is currently no way to prevent this from happening.   It would be great to be able to create ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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