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Problem statement: Canvas Catalog's API is lacking parity with UI functions. For example, you cannot manage sub catalog admins via the API as you can in Canvas. This can pose a problem for institution...

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Problem statement: Sometimes, students would need to switch between similarly-offered Canvas Courses or Canvas Programs. For example, a student may need to change from Catalog Program A to Catalog Pro...

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Problem statement: When assisting paid students experiencing a problem in Canvas Catalog, it might be helpful for Admins to be able to see what the student is experiencing. Proposed solution: Allow A...

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Problem statement: In the Catalog listings view, the "enrollable" column is misleading. A listing can be toggled as open for enrollment, but the enrollment start and end dates make it so it is unenrol...

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Problem statement: If a Canvas Catalog listing includes a "days to complete" value, and a student does not complete the requirements within that timeframe, there is currently no way for either an admi...

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Problem statement: Currently, we found that there's no easy way to navigate from a Catalog listing page to the listing edit page as an Admin. As account admins, we often get sent Catalog listing pages...

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Problem statement: Users can join a course even though a listing has there email domain as blocked/not allowed. When using the email domain restrictions for a listing in Catalog the restrictions is on...

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Problem statement: Canvas Catalog API is severely lacking. Specifically there should be an API call for creating and deleting Canvas Catalog Sub-Catalog Admins. Proposed solution: Add GET | POST | DE...

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Problem statement: When looking at the Canvas Catalog Analytics page, there is currently not a way to filter by course sections to view the following: Section(s) Total Enrollments, Completions by Sect...

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Problem statement: Listing SKUs are currently a free-for-all and there is no ability to manage consistency or uniqueness across the Catalog instance. Also, top-Catalog Admins are left having to check ...

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Problem statement: Catalog allows us to create only one listing per course. If we have multiple sections of a course with future dates, users can only select one enrollment date per listing. They may ...

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Problem statement: In Catalog, we create a listing for a single course that uses sections. In that listing, we can select a single section for users to enroll in. However, we often run multiple cohort...

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Problem statement: We are currently using CSS/JS and our admins like the option of being able to add custom links in their header. I would like to be able to move our Catalog to the new StoreFront but...

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Problem statement: I realized that if a student's account got deactivated on the Canvas side, this reflects on the Student Dashboard but not in the Catalog Enrollment Analytics. The student dashboard ...

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Problem statement: Currently, there is no option for a Catalog root admin or subcatalog admin to view a purchaser's claimed seats (see related idea: [Catalog] Allow Catalog admins to have access and ...

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Problem statement: Currently, this is what's happening to collected from a user that enrolls in courses listed in different subcatalogs. Here's an example. Subcatalog A admin Joe created UDF for “Stat...

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Problem statement: Currently, while the Users tab in Analytics in Catalog can display accounts registered via Catalog or Canvas LMS, a subcatalog admin can only see users registered via Catalog. Our i...

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Problem statement: Currently in Canvas catalog, when customizing emails, we are limited to variables such as catalog, user, course name, and account. This limitation has required us to send out additi...

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Problem statement: Catalog only has one permissions set for root catalog/sub-catalog admins. We need the ability to have different roles and permissions. We have a specific need to allow marketing/enr...

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Problem statement: It is imperative that the handling of promotion codes in Catalog has to be improved. What's missing?... 3. The ability to assign a code to a specific user/email address. Again, best...

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