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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: We are using Canvas Catalog to provide training as well as professional development courses and programs. Though the certificates in Catalog listings allows creating certificates wi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have noticed that the check-icon under "Enrollable" that appears next to individual listings becomes confusing when one puts in start/end dates for a specific listing. We and our...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, course listings in Catalog either display the amount of days (if Days to Complete is used in the course listing) or the start date and end date (if getting the date from ...

Community Participant 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: 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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Hi, We would like the ability to have the listing title and listing path automatically updated in Canvas Catalog if there needs to be an update to either of these items (course name or course code) in...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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When prospective learners register themselves on the waitlist for a paid course in Catalog, they aren’t automatically enrolled into the course when a spot opens. They receive an email notification of ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When a learner is on a waitlist for a Catalog course and a spot opens up, they will receive a "Waitlist: Action Needed" email that indicates "You have 12 hours to finalize your enrollment before your ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently, the process for re-ordering Catalog Listings is limited and very time-consuming and cumbersome, particularly if there are hundreds of listings to manage.  This feature request is to improve...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi, We would like to have the ability to have the year shown for the start and end date on the course card for Canvas Catalog. As you can see the start and end date years are shown in Canvas at the co...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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It's come to our attention that there is no way to update an email address or mailing address in Catalog for a Catalog User which causes issues in reporting and account management.  As it currently st...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi, We would like the ability to correct the enrollment and completion date of students enrollments in Canvas Catalog. Currently, the Catalog API, does not have POST API for us to change the enrollmen...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Hi everyone,   We would like the ability to have the Days to Complete option removed from a student enrollment in a Canvas course if the Days to Complete option is removed from a Listing in Canvas Cat...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Hi everyone,   On 6/20/20, a new feature will be pushed out to Canvas Catalog to be able to sync Canvas enrollments with Canvas Catalog. We would like to be able to enhance this feature by having refu...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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On 6/20/20, a new feature will be pushed out to Canvas Catalog to be able to restrict enrollments by Catalog and Subcatalog. We would like the ability to have this feature be pushed out for Canvas Cat...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Hi,   We would like the ability for root Canvas Catalog Administrators and Subcatalog Administrators to manually enroll students from the Canvas Catalog waitlist into Canvas Catalog courses.   A depar...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Hi everyone,   We have noticed that when trying to enroll for a course in Canvas Catalog on a mobile device (cell phone or tablet) that there is a ton of scrolling involved. We would like to have Canv...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Hi,   When testing Canvas Catalog listings to determine whether our payment gateway was activated in our beta catalog instance I wanted to test the listing link on my iPhone XR in Google Chrome. I sel...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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We would like the ability to have admins be able to drop students from Catalog. Currently, we need to masquerade as the student in Canvas and then go back to Catalog to act as that student. If there w...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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