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Problem statement: It seems that a course would need to be added to the commons as individual modules, one at a time, for a teacher to be able to import an individual module into their course from the...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have multiple teachers on our courses and they can change over time. Teachers who join later may not know if content was originally imported from Commons, and even if they did it...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When looking at resources shared to Canvas Commons, you can click on the "Details" tab to see things like the author, grade/level, tags, people who have commented with reviews, etc.  On this screen, i...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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I am a Canvas admin for a college and recently had two faculty members that have the Canvas role of "teacher" not be able to access commons.  One has an active Spring 2022 enrollment and does not have...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Don't get me wrong: I love Commons! But imagine my surprise when I learned that linked pages weren't being included when sharing pages or modules to Commons. Here's the scenario: I created a module co...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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This is a small issue but currently there is no ability to manage users in Commons.  You would think that Commons would match your users in your Canvas instance but users created in error (such as a m...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to add a feature to look for courses by language in Canvas Commons' filter.I could easily find courses available in French, English, Spanish, etc.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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tl;dr It would be nice if Commons updated only the parts of a shared course that were updated and not the entire course.  Right now, Commons seems to overwrite an entire course. More Details Let's say...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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 Afeature notifying users that have either downloaded a course or favorited one that an update has been made to it.  maybe a push notification of the option to push update or an actual push of new con...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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We would like the ability to be able to bulk upload and add multiple "group members" into groups by user ID or university email within Canvas Commons.   Currently, administrators can create groups for...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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The June 12 release of Canvas Commons (Commons Release Notes (2016-06-12) replaced the previous subaccount-based sharing permissions structure with a new "Groups" model. These Groups require manual ma...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Rationale: It would be useful to be able to share a syllabus page similar to how sharing a content or wiki page works. This would allow departments to share syllabus templates to Canvas Commons for fa...

Instructure Alumni Canvas Ideas
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Right now, if you import the same content from the commons into a course you have already imported into, it does not make a new copy of the content.  This is a desirable behavior for fully fleshed out...

Instructure Canvas Ideas
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As a Canvas Admin I can add a rubric to the Outcomes area which allows faculty to click "Find a Rubric" when adding a rubric to either an assignment or to a discussion.  Would it be possible to share ...

Instructure Canvas Ideas
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