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Problem statement: Currently we offer multi-course packs or bundles to offer value to participants. (i.e., Food Animal Surgery Suite). The value packs are offered at a discount. The more CEs the cours...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In the new Catalog analytics, our users have found that when they run the User report and download the csv, they are able to see the user_defined_fields but they don't get the listi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, if Bulk Purchase/Enrollment is enabled, anybody can be a purchaser. We do have some Catalog sites who want this functionality to be internal and not allow any of the publ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: On Catalog admins are able to view analytics... listings, orders, enrollments, users. We have marketing and enrollment personnel who need to know whether specific individuals have e...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have at least two user for our subcatalog pages, and our Subcatalog admins page has gotten lengthier. During audits of accounts with admin roles, we would like to start including...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a Catalog admin creates a promotion, they can only choose from two usage options: one time per user, or unlimited. We have a use case where a Catalog admin wants to share just ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, user defined fields are only usable for Catalog instances that utilize the user registration process. For our institution, we are using a third-party service so the user ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, when a subcatalog admin requests for an API key for their subcatalog instance, we are unable to provide them that option as giving a Catalog API key cannot be limited to ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: If utilizing Bulk Enrollment, the intended workflow poses as a problem because the bulk enrollment registration link can work for any user, despite only sending this link to an invi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, any user can be a purchaser for bulk enrollments. Unfortunately, we have use cases where the admin does the purchasing. And there's no functionality that allows multiple ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In Canvas LMS, the Admin Tools tool gives admins a way to search email notifications and confirm if they were delivered or not, see https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Video-Guide/Ad...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Instructure promotes Catalog as having a variety of uses including professional learning, eLearning courses, training workshops, seminars and webinars yet it has hard coded that all...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, when an enrollment end date is applied to a listing and this date has passed, it still lists that listing as Open for Enrollment (with the toggle enabled). When viewing t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Catalog only has requirements and not electives. We have use cases where program certificates can be awarded if a user completes 2/5 courses. We also have a use case where completin...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The Enrollment ID given to a user when they enroll to a Catalog course listing is only given via the enrollment email to the user. If this id is needed, the admin would have to ask ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We recently had an issue in our Catalog instance and wanted to be able to post an alert to students using the platform. However, there doesn't seem to be a banner or notifications f...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our institution hosts a large number of courses with registration fees - some which are taxable and some which are tax-exempt. For our taxable courses, we ask our sub-catalog admini...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have multiple use-cases for display of Canvas courses in the Catalog, one of which is for internal self-directed learning. Please allow us the option to remove the cost from the ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When using/following directions in the default emails and settings in Catalog, a student who enrolls in a course that has a start date in the future (in the Canvas Course Settings) ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We would like the ability to completely terminate student access to a Catalog course after the "days to complete" have expired. Currently, with open enrollment courses, we can set t...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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