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Problem statement: In the Course search, it would be nice to be able to fuzzy search with a placeholder. We have some special numbering around course section numbers, so the ability to search for BIO ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: At the moment an LTI tool can find out the role of a user in Canvas (eg Teacher/Student/TA), or the LTI role that the user has. For lots of LTI tools this is enough, however when a ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Right now, when I create a new event under the account calendar there is no indicator to draw users to it nor is there any notification sent of a new account calendar event. My stud...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When an instructor creates a group and adds students to it, it automatically creates a "Group Homepage" that the students can navigate into. In many cases, this is not necessary, be...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The mobile app has a setting for students to show the grade percent on the dashboard course card. This should be available on the desktop. Proposed solution: The mobile app has a s...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The GET request "/api/v1/courses/:course_id/conferences" doesn't return "created_at" and "updated_at" timestamps which is very inconvenient in my case, — for only getting these two ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Long ago we learned we had to turn OFF the Admin Setting that allowed Users to Edit their Name. (Students and Teachers would edit their name making it hard to find them, or making t...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: E-mail notifications of Inbox messages sent to students via Canvas do not show the subject line from Canvas in the subject line of the e-mail notification. The only text that shows ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When looking at student progress in modules, teachers see all the students in their course which can be large (over a hundred students). Proposed solution: Please add an option whe...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: If you click on "Groups" in the main menu in Canvas, all of your groups are listed and all of your groups are also displayed on the dashboard in the Canvas mobile app. Students have...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Within a crosslisted course, if there are both active AND concluded enrollments for a user, the Canvas Calendar will show events scheduled for both enrollments. The user will also s...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Working with little ones, it is best to keep things clean and easy to get to. With this in mind, when building lessons within modules, it easier for K-5 students to have all links a...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students can post inappropriate messages as an Announcement, to the Student Group they're assigned to. Proposed solution: Create a course permission that allows an Admin to enable/...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The Calendar is a great way to change the due date for an assignment. With drop and drag ease, moving the assignment on the calendar causes the due date to be updated. However, the ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: My students are struggling to get back into the course exactly where they left off the last time they engaged. For example, when a student is working through the first module and th...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I want to copy a commom module to all my classes in one go. At present I have to copy the modules one class at one time. Is there ay way I can copy them all at once. for example I h...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: As an admin, we must proactively go to People - Manage Profile Pictures - Submitted to approve those Profile Photos that have been submitted for review and are pending. However, the...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Admins are allowed to search Courses by Semester -- However When Instructors and Students are looking through All Courses they do not have this functionality. It would be helpful fo...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Courses only have their own individual file content storage option. There is no central (organizational) content repository for files and assets to be used inside courses. Many solu...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When delivering group works, students can invite other members to join the group in the moment of its creation. However, after created, other integrants can only join the group by s...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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