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Problem statement: When you create a section and set "section participation dates," you cannot restrict the access of users in that section outside of the selected dates (the users will continue to ha...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In course settings, you can set the default due time. But it’s restricted to ‘on the hour’ (1:00, 2:00, etc). My school starts classes on the half hour onMWF and on 75 min intervals...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I'd like there to be an administrative option to restrict a teacher from viewing their course roster until a certain date? Proposed solution: Admin Option to prevent the people tab...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement:   We have a problem with teachers being able to add students to courses as teachers (even just accidentally). Most are unaware of the consequences (ie. markbook visibility, course ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently if a course is concluded, users can no longer be added to the course. We often receive requests for new instructors to be added to a past course to help them prepare for t...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, allowing students to change their display names on Canvas is an "all or nothing" proposition. Either administrators allow all students to change their display names, or n...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: There is checkbox in Account Settings for "Don't let teachers rename their courses." If this box is *unchecked,* then teachers are able to change the name of their course and also t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have staff members who are both students/faculty and staff members. Because of this, they count with two Canvas accounts. One connected to their university-assigned email and ano...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: This idea was posted before but was closed stating the functionality exists however, if you follow Canvas' documentation it breaks the functionality from working. Here are the curre...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Ability to restore all prior students once a course has been un-concluded instead of one by one Proposed solution: Having the ability to restore all students at one time from a cou...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Please allow school-site admin to disable messaging for individual students. We currently have the ability to disable student-to-student messaging for all students on campus, but the need is that only...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In the RCE faculty can upload video files in the Upload Media tool without also adding the VTT (caption) file.  It is NOT that faculty do not know how to do this, they choose not to. The act of adding...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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at my university, we have a faculty lead model. the lead faculty creates the course in canvas and adds the teaching faculty members to the course so they can import the content into their section. onc...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Request:Show Local and Course times in a Canvas course's Settings > Course Details tab > Participation area when a user's account's time zone is different than their course's time zone (to have featur...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi, We would like to be able to prevent certain file types/extensions from being uploaded to the Files area of Canvas.  It would be great if we could have some kind of admin control at the account/sub...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Currently, admins can create grading schemes at an account level and them have them accessible in all courses. If you create a grading scheme within one of your courses though, it is only available in...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We in are in K-12 environment where all our grade weighting groups are standardized for all courses. All of our classes use the Assignment Groups "Major", "Minor", and "Class Participation" and all ha...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We like the newer confetti feature that can be enabled by the admin when assignments are completed on time.  The confetti varies for each assignment, sometimes including balloons or other shapes. We w...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Occasionally our support center deletes users or courses with usernames or SIS IDs that need to be reactivated, either by restoring a deleted object or by changing the SIS ID on the deleted object so ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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admin, courses, course selection, settings, sections - It would be great if we could set the start date by section. I have several courses that have multiple sections and they do not all start at the ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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