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Problem statement: Hello community, In the forums students post their comments and if the teacher configures it, students can like their classmates' post. A student who has been liked has no way of kn...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Push notifications are not supported for global announcements. Proposed solution: Allow push notifications for global announcements. It would be nice as an administrator to be able...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I would like to be able to set a notification when students submit an assignment in just one assignment category. For example, I might only want a notification when students submit ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When students are manually added to a course via the Canvas GUI, they receive a course invitation and Professors/TAs get an email notification that "_______ has accepted the invitat...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our main SIS integration failed for almost two weeks before being noticed as we had a new student register that could not login to Canvas and we realized that the sync was not worki...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a student uses up all of their Quiz attempts, there is no notification to the Teacher within the students Section to alert them that the student need support. The onus should n...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: There is a notification setting for "Announcement Created By You" so that a teacher receives an email notification of their own announcement. There is NOT a notification setting so ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I request that notifications of grade passback sync errors be delivered to instructors through the Canvas inbox, or by an alert within their Canvas account. We need a more proactive approach to alerti...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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As a way to assist teachers, students, and families/caregivers with keeping up with assignments, an extremely helpful feature would be an automated homework trend email message. What this would be is ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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If a student misses a deadline for an assignment, the assignment's status is automatically marked as missing. There should also be an email message or notification that is sent to the student to notif...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Emailed notifications include "new comments" to discussions but it would also be helpful if discussion notifications indicated "edited" posts, not just new ones. If I have already read the post, I nee...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Similar to how Facebook notifies you when someone replies to your specific post, I would like this feature in Canvas.In nearly all of my classes, we are required to make postings and answer student re...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Please add a notification option (preferably turned on by default) that sends a reminder notification 24 hours before a quiz or an assignment is due, to any student who has not already submitted it.  ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Would it be possible to add a notification option for changes in course enrollment? Simply utilizing the current notification process, but with an additional option. Thus the course owner can be notif...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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