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Problem statement: Currently, any user can be a purchaser for bulk enrollments. Unfortunately, we have use cases where the admin does the purchasing. And there's no functionality that allows multiple ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In Canvas LMS, the Admin Tools tool gives admins a way to search email notifications and confirm if they were delivered or not, see https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Video-Guide/Ad...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Instructure promotes Catalog as having a variety of uses including professional learning, eLearning courses, training workshops, seminars and webinars yet it has hard coded that all...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, when an enrollment end date is applied to a listing and this date has passed, it still lists that listing as Open for Enrollment (with the toggle enabled). When viewing t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Catalog only has requirements and not electives. We have use cases where program certificates can be awarded if a user completes 2/5 courses. We also have a use case where completin...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The Enrollment ID given to a user when they enroll to a Catalog course listing is only given via the enrollment email to the user. If this id is needed, the admin would have to ask ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We recently had an issue in our Catalog instance and wanted to be able to post an alert to students using the platform. However, there doesn't seem to be a banner or notifications f...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our institution hosts a large number of courses with registration fees - some which are taxable and some which are tax-exempt. For our taxable courses, we ask our sub-catalog admini...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have multiple use-cases for display of Canvas courses in the Catalog, one of which is for internal self-directed learning. Please allow us the option to remove the cost from the ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When using/following directions in the default emails and settings in Catalog, a student who enrolls in a course that has a start date in the future (in the Canvas Course Settings) ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We would like the ability to completely terminate student access to a Catalog course after the "days to complete" have expired. Currently, with open enrollment courses, we can set t...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hi, We would like the ability to have the listing title and listing path automatically updated in Canvas Catalog if there needs to be an update to either of these items (course name or course code) in...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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When prospective learners register themselves on the waitlist for a paid course in Catalog, they aren’t automatically enrolled into the course when a spot opens. They receive an email notification of ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When a learner is on a waitlist for a Catalog course and a spot opens up, they will receive a "Waitlist: Action Needed" email that indicates "You have 12 hours to finalize your enrollment before your ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I have had a teacher publish a Canvas Catalog course and then try to add a new student. Even though the course was published, they still got the message, "Invitations will not be sent until the course...

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Students who are not used to our regular courses often have a hard time finding their way back when they have logged out. We would like a "Sign in" button on the course detail page for already registe...

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Wish list for the upcoming Certificate of Completion Improvments Wysiwyg editor for Certificate To create a Certificate in line with our organization's graphic profile it is a lot of coding and ...

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Currently, the process for re-ordering Catalog Listings is limited and very time-consuming and cumbersome, particularly if there are hundreds of listings to manage.  This feature request is to improve...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi, We would like to have the ability to have the year shown for the start and end date on the course card for Canvas Catalog. As you can see the start and end date years are shown in Canvas at the co...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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It's come to our attention that there is no way to update an email address or mailing address in Catalog for a Catalog User which causes issues in reporting and account management.  As it currently st...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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