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Problem statement: Since "deleting" a user account will delete all associated information, courses, grades, etc., we have decided to "suspend" user accounts that have not accessed our Canvas instance ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Right now, I do not have the ability to specify when I want Notifications to go out for meetings created by the Zoom LTI. Although the Zoom LTI is creating a notification, it is Can...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I am a college student. It is currently impossible to configure email rules to handle the wide variety of email being sent from Canvas (such as notifications@instructure.com). Email rules do not permi...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When a faculty member needs support on a student issue that they were notified about through the Canvas inbox, there is no way for them to respond to the student and copy in my support email without t...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Current behavior: a student contacts faculty through Canvas Inbox. Faculty gets email notification, logs into Canvas, responds to student. Student replies, faculty gets notification, but no longer nee...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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On the course-level notifications screen users can completely opt-out of notifications from a particular course or customize individual notification types. I learned today that a user who had opted ou...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I would like to receive email notifications when my students leave submission comments, but not when my TAs leave submission comments. Sometimes I'll grade an assignment three weeks after it was submi...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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If an instructor enters grades for an assignment or quiz with an automatic grade-posting policy, students with notification preferences set for email and push notifications will receive both an email ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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We would like to request that observers have the ability to message campus administrators and include campus administrators with their Canvas Inbox.  Currently observers can only message teachers in t...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Under Permissions, we can prevent students from sending messages to the entire class OR to individual course members. We must have an option to allow students to message their teacher! There needs to ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I know we all LOVE  LOVE  LOVE  the "Message Students Who" feature from the Gradebook.    The one filter that doesn't seem right to me is the "Haven't been graded" option, because it includes the "Stu...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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We need the ability to tag our students, especially in areas like Chat. Sometimes we need to get our student's attention, to make sure they see things (esp. with so many courses online), or to get a t...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Summary This feature idea is twofold:  Fully obey the course participation setting “Restrict students from accessing courses after end date” and do not allow replies to existing inbox messages (even f...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Notifications sent via Canvas are currently not able to be branded.  This means that the emails sent to parents and students currently include the Canvas name and logo. This can cause some confusion w...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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