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Problem statement: When educators use Canvas Commons, a common scenario involves importing course materials into a specific course. Currently, when a teacher initiates the import process by clicking o...

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Canvas Commons Improvements in Commons

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Problem statement: When sharing a resource to Canvas Commons, there is a required description text field where the person sharing the resource can provide information about that resource. The text box...

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Canvas Commons Improvements in Commons

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Problem statement: One of my faculty members just inadvertently wiped *all* her active courses while importing a course from commons. She saw "All Courses" as a destination option and read it as "All ...

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Canvas Commons Enhance contributable items ...

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Problem statement: Massive amounts of images (or other assets/resources) are used in online learning. However, Canvas limits the ability to have a Repository of these assets by setting a file storage ...

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Canvas Commons Improvements in Commons

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