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Problem statement: In addition to providing Canvas admins with canned reports, please provide us with a report builder in the GUI so we can query the specific information and report with the fields ne...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: To properly manage and optimized storage usage, user quota must be set based on the actual needs and storage behavior of users. But without this information, user quota settings wil...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Report to give us a list of courses that do not have weighted grades set up, and the final grade is a 0 Proposed solution: We are looking for courses that do not have a final grade...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When running reports, a number of fields use SIS or Canvas IDs, and these are not always readily readable when consulting reports Proposed solution: Include the name of objects whe...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have staff asking what different roles can and cannot do. If I could share a current document (downloaded directly from Canvas), it would be very helpful. Currently I have to cre...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Unused Courses report provides false information. Proposed solution: Content posted in the Canvas Syllabus tool should be looked at, and if any text or links exist there, the cours...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We would like our Canvas users to be able to export CSV files from New Analytics in the same way as they do from Grades. Currently our users are able to easily open and view the CSV...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently the provisioning report is "all or none" and it has to be manipulated upon receipt to stratify by course role, enrollment status, etc., etc. Proposed solution: Add additi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Data Services (not to be confused with Canvas Data Portal) are great for checking on live updates to data in your system, however there does not appear to be a way to ONLY report on...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Please add an additional column to the existing Zero Activity Report that contains the student's Canvas Login ID. Currently, much exporting and manipulation of Excel worksheets and ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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It would be extremely helpful if a new column with the Outcome Group name were added to the account-level reports named "Outcome Results" and "Student Competencies".  At our institutions, it's quite c...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Would be helpful to have these dates in the Provisioning Report. I can go to Canvas Data for this info, but that's 24 to 48 hours old. Adding these fields to a live, on-demand, report seems trivial an...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I would like to see a count of number of files added to the Course Storage Report. We would like to clean up courses that have 100s of unused flies (or thousands), so one field in this report we could...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Adding a field to the accounts.csv file for a template course would be *very* helpful, particularly large school divisions that handle settings for all subaccounts (schools) centrally. I would like to...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We've been informed of the (relatively) new addition of the declared_user_type field to users.csv (https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.sis_csv.html). We assume it's thus possible  to supply va...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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tl;dr It would be helpful if the SIS Export Report >> enrollments.csv report (How do I view reports for an account?) would also include the first/last name of the user along with the user's e-mail add...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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This is likely a combination of smaller ideas, but for those of us admins who get grade reports directly from Canvas instead of going through a SIS, especially for K12 - the Canvas grade report functi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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As a Canvas administrator, I can run a report to see if we have any students or instructors that have bounced e-mail addresses in Canvas following the steps in: How do I view bounced email notificatio...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We are getting ready to make a big push to move faculty from Original Quizzes to New Quizzes and we need to know the scope of this effort to discover which courses have Original Quizzes and how many O...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We would like to have the ability to track or report on who added a user to a course when someone has been added manually. We can see, via reporting, whether a user was added to a course via SIS data ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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