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Problem statement: When there are Sub-Accounts with more than one level of nesting, they are not displayed in the list of Sub-Accounts. This makes it impossible to find a grandchild Sub-Account throug...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Root Admin have hundreds of courses. It would be really helpful to be able to sort the courses into folders. Proposed solution: Create an option to put courses in folders. User ro...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When reviewing the file upload when designing and deploying a theme, I can't see what file I've uploaded to the CSS and JS options as the entire non-resizing box is taken up by the ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We are currently not able to lock the Submission type in Assignments in Blueprint courses. This makes the Assignment editable in the associate courses upto an extent the format of s...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: My organisation is a big user of Blueprints. Before we do an association we lockdown the content. Generally, this involves all pages, assessments, and quizzes. The current process r...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When admins or advisors are meeting with a student, they want to be able to view all the grades for that student's courses in progress. Currently, they have to go to each course in ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The process can be very time consuming to assign Badgr / Canvas Credential badges to Canvas LMS courses because it has to be done manually. The best process we have found is to log ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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From the Courses page, when I need to check on the course enrollments, I have to click the course name or the cog wheel to get into the course, then locate and click the People link on the left nav. P...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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CSV-imports are great for SIS-integrations and bulk updates. However, it happens that we just wish to update one user status, i.e. reactivating a user. This would be easily done if admins have access ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Allow Admins to bulk delete courses from the main account and sub-account level.  Currently, need to open the course, go to settings and click Delete, then confirm Delete.  This is a tedious process i...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Right now faculty have to be invited to the Canvas Portfolium Outcome / Educator Tools area by an administrator and/or create their very first Portfolium assignment before they gain access to this too...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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A dedicated Portfolium Pathway LTI would be nice to have that automatically enrolls students who launch from Canvas. I could see an administrator create one for each program that would allow SSO into ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When faculty assign a Portfolium Assignment using the LTI Canvas integration, students are only added to the roster when they launch a Portfolium assignment from Canvas.   This is problematic because ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Hi,   We would like the ability to add or remove admins from subaccounts at the root level.     Adam SmithCollege of EducationAccount AdminAdd    RemoveJoe SmithSchool of Public HealthAccount AdminAd...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We would really like to see the Syllabus page have page history so that instructors who spend hours on it, and then delete it accidentally, can get it back.  Other pages/modules have this feature, but...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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