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Problem statement: E-mail notifications of Inbox messages sent to students via Canvas do not show the subject line from Canvas in the subject line of the e-mail notification. The only text that shows ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When parents set up their 'observer' account in the Canvas Parent app, they only see announcements that teachers send out after they join. Any announcements sent out before they set...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In the Canvas Parent app, notifications are turned off by default in the settings of the app. This may cause parents to miss course announcements. Proposed solution: Instead of the...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Parents can't see global notifications in the Canvas Parent app. Currently, they can only see course announcements. With most parents using a mobile device to observe their child in...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When looking at student progress in modules, teachers see all the students in their course which can be large (over a hundred students). Proposed solution: Please add an option whe...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: If you click on "Groups" in the main menu in Canvas, all of your groups are listed and all of your groups are also displayed on the dashboard in the Canvas mobile app. Students have...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Within a crosslisted course, if there are both active AND concluded enrollments for a user, the Canvas Calendar will show events scheduled for both enrollments. The user will also s...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Working with little ones, it is best to keep things clean and easy to get to. With this in mind, when building lessons within modules, it easier for K-5 students to have all links a...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students can post inappropriate messages as an Announcement, to the Student Group they're assigned to. Proposed solution: Create a course permission that allows an Admin to enable/...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The Calendar is a great way to change the due date for an assignment. With drop and drag ease, moving the assignment on the calendar causes the due date to be updated. However, the ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Captions have to be manually requested for and published. Proposed solution: Captions should be created automatically upon record/upload without having to manually request them and...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: My students are struggling to get back into the course exactly where they left off the last time they engaged. For example, when a student is working through the first module and th...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I want to copy a commom module to all my classes in one go. At present I have to copy the modules one class at one time. Is there ay way I can copy them all at once. for example I h...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: As an admin, we must proactively go to People - Manage Profile Pictures - Submitted to approve those Profile Photos that have been submitted for review and are pending. However, the...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Admins are allowed to search Courses by Semester -- However When Instructors and Students are looking through All Courses they do not have this functionality. It would be helpful fo...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: RIght now sub-collections cannot be added within collections in Studio. Proposed solution: Add the ability to create sub-collections within collections in Studio, please. User rol...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Courses only have their own individual file content storage option. There is no central (organizational) content repository for files and assets to be used inside courses. Many solu...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When delivering group works, students can invite other members to join the group in the moment of its creation. However, after created, other integrants can only join the group by s...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: If a student was already added to a group and you need to change their group, it can be a tedious process to find the student so they can be re-assigned to another group. All the gr...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Many students prefer names other that what is listed on their official registration. Sometimes that is as simple as a preferred shortening of their name or a name that they have cho...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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