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Problem statement: In the Course search, it would be nice to be able to fuzzy search with a placeholder. We have some special numbering around course section numbers, so the ability to search for BIO ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: There doesn't appear to be the ability to search for content within the published parts of a course, that students have access to, from one central location. The 2 search function o...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently the People search in the Accounts allows searching by a user's name, but not by their display name. This can make it tedious to find a user when you are provided with thei...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently in the People search of the Account area, you only see a user's sortable name, email, SIS ID, and last login. However, when using the search term, the results can be based...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The course search in Accounts will search courses based on their course names, course codes, and SIS IDs. However, only the course name and SIS ID are shown. This can lead to some c...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In the Canvas ePortfolios User Directory: https://edu.portfolium.com/network/users, only exact searches of first names, last names, and email addresses are accepted. For example, to...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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As Admins, several items we would love to see in the Course Search feature: Add a "Show only course templates" checkbox to go along with "Show only blueprint courses"Allow wildcard searchingAllow narr...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When the Sub-Account tree shows: Institution Name1 Course14 Sub-Accounts It's very difficult to actually find that course (or those courses) in the Course search amongst the rest of the courses and ac...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently you can only search Announcements and find a match if the Announcement title includes the search word. Please add the ability to Search that will pull up announcements that contain the word ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Could you please create a 'Find a Link Tool" so that we can search for a link  (that we previously made on a page, assignment etc) so that we change the link, move the link or remove the link? This wi...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Background: Many of our university's courses use multiple sections per course, which are generated (and for combined courses automatically cross-listed) by our own integration with Canvas based on how...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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There is an issue with the Search bar in Canvas which is case / character sensitive (and it should not). It's particularly important for languages that use various accents. For example, if I search fo...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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John  Smith is a valid username. Do you see the problem with it? You will never find it in the people list if you assume the 2 spaces in the name should just be 1 space. Canvas don't consider this to ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hello, The external tools box inside course content needs a search feature so we can pick from our list of Apps which exceed 260 at this time. Please add a search box in the "Find" area of External To...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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As a teacher, I would like to have a "search" function on the Group session. When a student wants to switch group, is so annoying that I have to open group one by one to see where is that student and ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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tl;dr Need to be able to move Studio videos to Collections after using the Search.   The new Studio Collections (also How do I create a collection in Canvas Studio? and How do I view a collection in C...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice, especially for support staff, if we could search on name fields and partial email addresses in the enroll dialogue.  This way if we know the person's name but not their exact user id...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Currently, a use can view their file listings by individual folders or they can search for files by name. I'm suggesting they be given another search option: find files by size.   Consider the user cl...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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The new course/people search is pretty nice, however, it still does not show you if a course/section have been combined. It would be nice if there was some indicator of this.   When you combine/crossl...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Finding a specific message in the Canvas Inbox is a difficult task due to the lack of a search feature. This is compounded for instructors of large courses, who may have thousands of students over the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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