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I have interacted with a few faculty would like to have undergrad TAs have a role that would allow them to interact with all groups in a course but without having access to course materials, particula...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Currently the student View button for Account Admins is tied to the Course (Add/Edit/Delete) permission. Users must have this permission to have the student view button. We believe this permission sho...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hello! We would love to see a permission to disallow or prevent users enrolled in blueprint courses from syncing unsynced changes. When a user is enrolled as a Teacher or Designer in a blueprint cours...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to be able to allocate permission to other roles to be able to help reset login credentials. Sometimes it is not best practise to give a member Admin role just to be able to help with...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Scenario: It's not uncommon for faculty to try importing from their old shells and get the entire course. Then, in the process of cleaning up the mess, they delete more than they should. Not only does...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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If something is visible from the Admin Tab, we should be able to disable it from Permissions.    Currently if you create an Admin role called Advisor, and give that role No Permissions, the Advisors s...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I'm resubmitting the idea Limit visibility to Section Users submitted originally by Wade James and supporting information added by Ben Reynolds and  Melody CSUCanvasAdmin-Brake When dealing with multi...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Please change each the "Create and edit assessing rubrics" from a single setting to two separate settings.   Current: Create and edit assessing rubrics   Should become: Create assessing rubricsEdit a...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Please change each the "Moderate discussions ( delete / edit other's posts, lock topics)" from a single setting to three separate settings.   Current: Moderate discussions ( delete / edit other's pos...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Please change each the "Add, edit and delete events on the course calendar" from a single setting to three separate settings.   Current: Add, edit and delete events on the course calendar     Should ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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