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I entered a suggestion for a new feature to Allow Admins to set custom default course settings for course shells they are creating and assigning to users in their districts.  It opened for voting today, Mar. 2, 2016 and will be open for three months.  Vote it up if this is a feature that you would like to see the Canvas product development team work on for us. 1. Log into the Canvas Community... 2. Click on Canvas Feature Ideas in the middle column. 3. Search for "Allow Admin to Set Default Course Settings." 4. Look for the following feature suggestion... 5. Vote by clicking on the "Up" arrow to the right of the vote tally. ... View more

I entered a suggestion for a new feature to Allow Admins to set custom default course settings for course shells they are creating and assigning to users in their districts.  It opened for voting today, Mar. 2, 2016 and will be open for three months.  Vote it up if this is a feature that you would like to see the Canvas product development team work on for us. 1. Log into the Canvas Community... 2. Click on Canvas Feature Ideas in the middle column. 3. Search for "Allow Admin to Set Default Course Settings." 4. Look for the following feature suggestion... 5. Vote by clicking on the "Up" arrow to the right of the vote tally. ... View more

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, if a teacher technology advisory committee, school principal, and/or tech department in the school or district determines that all courses published in Canvas for students and observers have settings that differ from the current defaults, then this requires a manual change to each course by the teacher and/or admin depending upon the district's user permissions. e.g., setting grading schemes, or students rights to view, attach, etc. e.g., modifying default course navigation menu items to be viewable to students...   I suggest that Canvas develop a feature that would allow an admin to simply set the course settings defaults prior to the creation of courses within subaccounts, manually or via SIS integration.   This feature could be available in one or more of the following locations of the Admin navigation menu: (a) Courses (b) Add a New Course (c) Settings (d) Subaccounts ... View more