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Problem statement: Problem 1. When editing an article or message, we more often than not have to turn the Rich Edit Mode On. This is a counterintuitive extra step.     Problem 2. The Impact Rich Conte...

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Problem statement: It is currently not possible to link to an Impact support article or category from outside Impact. We would like to directly refer our end-users to Impact articles when they ask us ...

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Problem statement: At the moment, new out-of-the-box (OOTB) support articles are added to the Support Center with the state "published". However, we do not use all Canvas features and would like to pe...

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Problem statement: When there are multiple campaigns running, we want to make sure that the users are not overloaded with multiple Impact messages. In the current Admin Dashboard, there's no option to...

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Problem statement: When a user submits feedback on a support center article or a message in the LMS, their feedback is likely to go unnoticed unless the institution's Impact admins actively search for...

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Problem statement: The LTI Tools launch report is a wonderful tool to have all of our LTI statistics in one place. There is a lot of extraneous tools being repeated as separate rows (Canvas Redirect T...

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Problem statement: The ability to create an Impact pop up message and have it display at intervals would be very useful, for example a message that would appear at the start of every term. For example...

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Problem statement: On several occasions, I have been asked to post a message for a particular course or several course sections. There is no easy way to target a message to a course. Proposed solutio...

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Problem statement: I spend a lot of time copying message content and pasting into new messages. A lot of the formatting that gets copied comes over...especially when copying/pasting messages from prev...

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Problem statement: Walk-throughs are great, but deployment can be cumbersome when targeting groups of people/courses. End-users would contact support, then support would potentially give them support ...

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Problem statement: I spend a lot of time doing needless clicking etc. I need to easily copy support articles and messages in Impact. Proposed solution: Please please provide the ability to copy artic...

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Problem statement: While new-ish to Impact, I am finding the list of campaigns getting longer and hard to read. Names sometimes get chopped for length, making it unclear which campaign is currently ru...

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Problem statement: At this time all Impact reporting templates are visible via the Impact Course Reports LTI. There is a benefit in being able to manage which reporting templates are visible within th...

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Problem statement: Because we are unable to edit Canvas Guides Out of the Box Support Articles, we have to manually recreate articles with nearly identical content. In two situations we currently manu...

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Problem statement: We have received various requests from instructors and section designers about having enhanced reporting within the Impact Course Reports, specifically how students are interacting ...

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Problem statement: At this time performing functions within Impact is manual, we are looking to automate messaging and retrieve/export Impact data. Example: - uploading customer user groups via the AP...

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Problem statement: To add SSO support to the Impact Admin Dashboard. At this time, Impact accounts are created and users are invited manually. At the institution, we would prefer to manage authenticat...

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