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Problem statement: It is imperative that the handling of promotion codes in Catalog has to be improved. What's missing?... 2. The ability to limit how many times, overall, a code can be used. We NEED ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It is imperative that the handling of promotion codes in Catalog has to be improved. What's missing?... 1. The ability to just disable a code. You can delete one, or just move the e...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The date feature released on 4/15/24 is unusable unless you are using it for a date in the current year. Catalog Release Notes (2024-04-15) Note in the release link above the examp...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It would be nice to be able to Filter the Catalog Admin Analytics, Enrollments tab using Canvas Course ID. This would let us quickly narrow down the enrollments to those students we...

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Problem statement: Since students have the capability to drop courses from their student dashboards in Canvas Catalog, it would be helpful to get dropped data in the Catalog analytics. Proposed solut...

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Problem statement: Troubleshooting Canvas Catalog issues is challenging. Often many emails are exchanged with support tickets to determine what the participant is experiencing or what is happening on ...

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Problem statement: Currently we offer multi-course packs or bundles to offer value to participants. (i.e., Food Animal Surgery Suite). The value packs are offered at a discount. The more CEs the cours...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It's not possible to have certificates generated from Catalog based on overall grade in a course. Proposed solution: Allow certificates to be generated based on overall grade. Use...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have a second Canvas instance created for our use of Catalog, and a trust relationship configured so our existing learners can SSO from the primary, SIS-connected instance. With ...

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Problem statement: Currently, the wait list setting in Canvas only works if the enrollment to the listing is open and if the student cap has been reached. We have a use case for allowing the wait list...

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Problem statement: We have parent subcatalogs that have admins that manage it and the child subcatalogs underneath it. It would be great if these subcatalog admins can have a view-only permission to s...

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Problem statement: We would like the ability to organize/archive the Catalog Listing page. We have only been using Catalog for a few months and our list is already growing large. Over the years we wil...

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Problem statement: In the new Catalog analytics, our users have found that when they run the User report and download the csv, they are able to see the user_defined_fields but they don't get the listi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, if Bulk Purchase/Enrollment is enabled, anybody can be a purchaser. We do have some Catalog sites who want this functionality to be internal and not allow any of the publ...

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Problem statement: On Catalog admins are able to view analytics... listings, orders, enrollments, users. We have marketing and enrollment personnel who need to know whether specific individuals have e...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have at least two user for our subcatalog pages, and our Subcatalog admins page has gotten lengthier. During audits of accounts with admin roles, we would like to start including...

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Problem statement: When a Catalog admin creates a promotion, they can only choose from two usage options: one time per user, or unlimited. We have a use case where a Catalog admin wants to share just ...

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Problem statement: Currently, user defined fields are only usable for Catalog instances that utilize the user registration process. For our institution, we are using a third-party service so the user ...

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Problem statement: Currently, when a subcatalog admin requests for an API key for their subcatalog instance, we are unable to provide them that option as giving a Catalog API key cannot be limited to ...

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Problem statement: If utilizing Bulk Enrollment, the intended workflow poses as a problem because the bulk enrollment registration link can work for any user, despite only sending this link to an invi...

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