Canvas Ideas

Ideas are submissions from Community users. Instructure reviews these ideas weekly. Relevant ideas are mapped to themes. Community users vote on themes biannually to help prioritize themes.

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I use my browser Canvas to create content, but I rely on the Teacher app to access the content for my courses when I'm in the classroom or otherwise away from my desk.  The Canvas features I need most...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Hello all! I am a student, and I am here to suggest an idea that I thought would make Canvas more personalized. I think a dark theme would be great for Canvas since some students like to stay up at ni...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Hello everyone!   I have been working with faculty to create mobile friendly content pages.  While most often pages will look okay on mobile devices, I often have to explain why some content such as t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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TL;DR: The ability for users to hide the grading, comments, and files area so documents can be viewed in full screen when grading in the Teacher App.    The Teacher app currently doesn't give the abil...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Right now, if a user logs in to our Canvas instance on a mobile device, they have no way of knowing which Canvas instance they are logging in to. This is true of both mobile browser (left) and mobile ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to grade submissions while not on wifi (on iPad) and then have it sync back up when I get to a wifi connection.

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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