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Problem statement: Currently if there are errors/warnings with SIS Imports, there is no notification sent to account admins. This requires either active monitoring of the SIS Imports and/or building a...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Right now, the ability to Sync and Unsync assignments is done one by one. While this is beneficial in many ways, it does create a time sink around the end of a grading period/quarte...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The password of some users was not updated during an SIS Import due to the following: - If the password has been set by the user or a previous sis import https://canvas.instructure....

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When you have Synced assignment groups to the SIS, an "Imported" icon (which looks like an arrow on a page) appears next to the Assignment Group name.   This helps Teachers and System Admins quickly i...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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As Sys Admin in Canvas, I am getting feedback from our Field Test teachers about having to see so many assignments when they go to sync in canvas now.  It shows all the assignments from all time and h...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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We've been informed of the (relatively) new addition of the declared_user_type field to users.csv (https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.sis_csv.html). We assume it's thus possible  to supply va...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Currently, there is a function to disable sync to PowerSchool in the 3 dot menu next to the blue +Assignment button on the Assignments page.   This function disables all assignments from syncing to Po...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We use the SIS Grade Push utility in Canvas to allow instructors to push final course grades to our SIS.  This tool has very few controls.  We cannot limit its availability by course role, nor does it...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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tl;dr It would be helpful if the SIS Export Report >> enrollments.csv report (How do I view reports for an account?) would also include the first/last name of the user along with the user's e-mail add...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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TLDR;  When using grade passback between Canvas and an SIS, differentiated assignments don't passback at all. This is not in the best interest of teachers and students and needs to work. Full Descript...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Grade sync shows the errors.  It does not have a link to the assignment or quiz.  I then have to search my course for that item.  It is a pain.   Even more recently this became worse, when the item wa...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Items in the grade book are available for sync with SIS. However, sections are not in the sync and individuals are not available for sync. Why not mimic assignments' ability to be allowed to sync with...

Community Explorer 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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I request that notifications of grade passback sync errors be delivered to instructors through the Canvas inbox, or by an alert within their Canvas account. We need a more proactive approach to alerti...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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