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Problem statement: As a student, I want to be able to download my certificate as a PDF rather than print immediately. As a student, I want to be able to download my certificate as a PDF so that I can ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Issuers cannot quickly see which badges are visible or hidden, from the badge list. Proposed solution: Add the visibility icon to the "badgr.com/issuers/.../badges/" table. User r...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Credentials Problem statement: The Dashboard export for "Who is Awarding Badges?" has badges as column headers. For an organization with more than...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The options to share a badge on LinkedIn need to be reviewed and improved, as the value of the social media share is much diminished at the time of this writing. Current state: When...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, in Canvas Credentials, each badge or pathway needs its own Issuer to be created. It would be nice to be able to nest "sub" Issuers under "master" Issuers to help organize...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas instructors need a quick, clean, verifiable way to see which badges students have earned already outside of their class. And students need a clean, clear path for sharing a B...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas credentials lacks an integrated system for badging outcomes in the mastery gradebook representing mastery of competencies for students. These mastery outcomes will not count ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In the Canvas Credentials (Badgr) integration, there is a discrepancy between the Course End Date and the Badgr Group End Date. When educators modify the Course End Date to accommod...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas Credentials can be installed at the account or sub-account level, but the only option is to have it display as enabled by default in the Course Navigation Menu. According to ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When initially exploring Canvas Credentials, while setting the trigger for specific assignments to be "Complete item", my thought was that this would be comparable to the Badgr trig...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We would like to see more detailed data/logs about awards such as (and not limited to) whether a notification email has been sent to the earners along with the badge award (tick or ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently admins can only associate LinkedIn issuing organisation accounts at org level within Canvas Credentials. This means that when a student shares their credential on LinkedIn...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently we can share our badges using Social Media. This request will ensure we can include the badge as part of an e-mail signature panel. If we want to include the badge in our ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, badges awarded using the Credentials LTI can only be awarded for singular requirements (assignment grade, course grade, module completion). However, in order to have a mo...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently in Canvas Credentials, there is a predetermined set of Certificates that can be enabled for use when a badge is awarded. However, these options are not robust enough to me...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the Badge Design tool in Canvas Credentials is very limited when compared to other badging platforms. The pre-loaded options are very "cartoonish" (rounded shapes and ima...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When an earner clicks on the share button for one of the social media options, it automatically counts as a share, even if the earner does not complete the share to their social med...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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