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Problem statement: The only way to add a student/faculty member to a Canvas course is to use their email address or ID number. I would like a way to add people to a course using their name, so that it...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, when a user account is suspended, the only visual indicator I am aware of is on the Admin view of the user account page, where red exclamation mark appears within in a re...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a link is 'featured' in the help menu, the panda with the map shows up. This panda is not very specific to the link that is featured, making the 'featured' link actually less v...

Channel Partner Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In our previous LMS, we had it configured to enroll users into non-academic course sites. These include ones for health and wellness, student resources, faculty resources etc. We we...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently to set/update a user's institution-assigned email address, it requires an SIS Import. However, there is no indicator in the API nor provisioning reports of what a user's i...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, if an Admin enters a list of pronoun sets into the Personal Pronouns field there is no options to reorder how the list appears in the dropdown to the users (student/teach...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Background and problem There was a change to the course availability dates in March 2021. At our university we just now discovered 761 old courses that have their own start date, but no end date. This...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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