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When a template is in place in an account or sub-account, the template is copied into any new course created there. Since the Reset Course Content process creates a new course, the template is applied...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to have at the Admin level that when a student has an IEP for let us say 1.5x or 2x on their exams or assignments that we can go in and put that info in at a student level that automa...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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All sections are currently visible to all students in places such as the Inbox. This means we cannot use sections for students with additional needs as their status is confidential. So, for elements l...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi,   In the Admin Settings area in Canvas or/at the subaccount-level, we would like the ability to toggle between having the choice to have Canvas courses listed on the Dashboard that are associated ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We would like the ability to set the grade posting policy within the new Gradebook at the Account and Subaccount level.   In our experience, the assumption is that the grades will be hidden from stude...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We would like the ability to enable and disable Conversations/Messages and its features, like "Reply All", at a Course Level.   While these features can be edited at a role level, each course may have...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice if Canvas administrators had access to a user setting that would disable the users ability to post new inbox messages or respond to messages they receive.

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I am fleshing out a an earlier feature request that evidently didn't go anywhere (*Display Student Email Address in Roster ). At our university, the SIS_ID displayed in the People list and the Seconda...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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It would be hugely helpful to district-level Canvas Admins to be able to modify and establish default course settings for course shells created for sections assigned to teacher users.   For example, i...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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If a student submits an assignment to say week 2 folder when it should have been submitted to week 3, currently there is no way to move that assignment to the correct location as the Teacher.  This co...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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