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Hi,   When testing Canvas Catalog listings to determine whether our payment gateway was activated in our beta catalog instance I wanted to test the listing link on my iPhone XR in Google Chrome. I sel...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We would like the ability to have admins be able to drop students from Catalog. Currently, we need to masquerade as the student in Canvas and then go back to Catalog to act as that student. If there w...

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We would like the ability to have participants automatically enrolled in Programs once they have paid for the program or enrolled in the Program or once the start date/enroll date hits in Canvas/Catal...

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We were made aware that a student or Catalog administrator has the ability to edit a certificate of completion after downloading the PDF from Canvas Catalog then opening the certificate in Adobe Acrob...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We would like to have the ability to be able to export a listing report from Canvas Catalog in the listing portal that lists all of the listings or just one particular listing and its attributes inste...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We would like the ability to sort by visibility in Canvas Catalog listings. The purpose of this is to be able to find out which listing is set to which visibility instead of having a mix of the three ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Hi everyone,   Much like the Listings page in Catalog, see below, we would like to see the same type of link underneath the listing link in the completions tab to go directly to a Canvas course.   Com...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Hi everyone,   We would like to be able to filter by catalog to view listings. Currently, as an admin in Canvas Catalog I see all of the listings and I have to change the url to dwindle down and see a...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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In Canvas Catalog, we would like the ability to only have an option to choose from when creating a certificate of completion for a listing/course such as pulling images and content from a repository ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Hi everyone,   We would like the ability to have a button to delete or swap out by providing an option to upload a new image for each of the following categories: header image, logo image, and favicon...

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Hi everyone,   We have a student who has received a completion certificate for completing multiple courses in Canvas Catalog. However, the only way to get the certificate and to have the unofficial tr...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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As a Catalog Admin, it would be beneficial to receive a notification when a student drops a course in Catalog since we have no control over this option.  It would also be beneficial for the Catalog us...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We would like administrators to be able to be notified when new promotions for Canvas Catalog are created.    To make this happen a notifications tab will be needed in the admin portal and a pop-up me...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Hi everyone,   We would like the ability to have refunds appear in the Canvas Catalog Analytics tab for the purpose of accurate revenue. What I mean by this is just adding in the negative amounts of t...

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Hi everyone, We have had multiple requests for this feature by multiple departments on campus. We would like a way to have a single point of contact at an organization/department that can register for...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We want the ability to initiate the process for creating multiple payment gateway(s) for Canvas Catalog for sub-catalogs. Currently, only Instructure staff can only activate this process. Most recentl...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We would like administrators to be able to be notified when new course listings for Canvas Catalog are created.    To make this happen a notifications tab will be needed in the admin portal and a pop-...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Hi everyone,   It has come to our attention that even though a student has a university user ID they might not have identified a default email address in their Canvas profile. If a student does not ha...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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In Canvas Catalog:   We would like the ability to duplicate catalogs for the purpose of:   1. We have the need to associate a subcatalog with a parent catalog. Currently, the only option is to create ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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If you are enrolled in a Catalog course and you remove your enrollment via Canvas that information isn't passed to Catalog and so it will look like you 1) never were enrolled, or 2) look like you're s...

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