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This would be very useful when teachers need added to a prior course which they did not teach so that they can import content for teaching in this academic year. Admins should be able to add People without having additional steps to change course dates first. ... View more

We also need to allow some course roles and some admin to view a new quiz without being able to make any edits to the questions. Role mapping is essential for our use of New Quizzes. We have worked with other LTI providers to ensure that our custom roles map correctly to roles available in their tools, Canvas needs to do the same for their own product! ... View more

Adding my support to this idea as I am currently reviewing the roles we set up when we moved to Canvas last September. It is really time consuming to document permissions so that these can be shared with non-root admin, even though we only have a few roles. Any documentation is going to need maintained for changes to granularity and options implemented by Canvas. It would be far more efficient to be able to produce a report showing the current roles and permissions at the time of our review.  ... View more

Yes, it would be a good idea to be able to select specific modules or pages to run the link checker against at course level.  It would also be very helpful if there was an option to ignore links which fail because they require authentication with systems used in our organisation, such as embedded Microsoft Stream videos. If this isn't possible to implement as a general rule, then perhaps the ability to set a URL whitelist at root and then the option to ignore those URLs when running the link checker. Unless there is another solution for this that we've missed so far?!  ... View more

I would support this as a way to save users or admin time in tracking down who owns an item bank, this may not be easy to do as courses and teachers change over time.  For the new user to gain access to the item bank they currently need to ask around until they find a colleague with access or they will need to ask admin to 'act as user' on multiple teacher accounts until they can find out who owns it and 'share' with the new teacher. Being able to request directly from the quiz using the item bank would be significantly easier. ... View more

The ability to link item banks to courses rather than individuals would support our team teaching approach. If you are a new teacher on a course, there is no way to identify who created the item bank used in a quiz. It may be another teacher on the current course, however it could just as easily be a teacher from last year who has now left. For the new teacher to gain access to the item bank they will need to ask around until they find a colleague with access (or will need to ask admin to 'act as user' on multiple teacher accounts until they can find out who owns it and 'share' with the new teacher).  We will look at naming conventions for item banks and best practice guidance to ensure teachers share with their course team, but it would be better if item banks were linked to the course somehow. If this isn't possible due to their individual design, then a report for a course, or for sub-account admin, showing item banks with owners would be helpful? (Edit: Also see this feature request to allow admin management of item banks which relates to my last point) ... View more