Canvas Ideas

Ideas are submissions from Community users. Instructure reviews these ideas weekly.

To participate in Ideas, please sign in to the Community.

Note: You must be logged in and have at least the Community Member rank to submit a new idea. Learn more about how to rank up in the Community.

Filter Idea Conversations:

1698 Ideas in: Open

For reference, this course is a county-wide assessment for all 8th grade students.  We have multiple sections, and several Graders (for moderated grading), and all students need to submit within a two...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
  • 9 Replies

Adding a feature upgrade to select multiple listings for a promo code to apply within one set-up screen. Currently, there is only the option of applying a promo code to ONE listing or ALL listings wit...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 5 Replies

I have just discovered the "Reassign" button. Can we consider adding another functions? With the "reassign" button, either allow instructor to change due & close date for that specific student, or bum...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 14 Replies

This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2024-11-16)  Our district has a ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
  • 14 Replies

Currently, the Equation Editor does not appear to have options to control font or color directly. I found an old topic from 2016 that implied that an adjustable font size was being added, but it looks...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
  • 5 Replies

Currently, if students try to view their quiz submissions in New Quizzes for a past course, they encounter a "403 - Forbidden" error. This is true even if the quiz and course settings are configured ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
  • 13 Replies

Please consider providing the option to assign a student to "peer assess" their own submission.

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
  • 12 Replies

When a page is given the module completion criteria "View the Item" it fails to record the page as viewed if the student uses the browser back button after reviewing the content. This seems like a ser...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 5 Replies

As a instructor, I would like to set an assignment where students could use the new quizzes lti to create their own quiz questions.  Those questions could populate a quiz bank.  As a teacher, I could ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
  • 6 Replies

As a teacher, you may want to do add lots of assignments or import assignments from Canvas Commons.  When making lots of changes to a live course, each new piece of content can trigger a notification ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
  • 6 Replies

List view in the dashboard shows to-do items by date. But within each day, the items are not listed in order of time.  Instead, they are listed in the order that the courses appear in the courses tray...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
  • 6 Replies

When testing module completion requirements, I realized that 1) the same assignment listed under two different modules only shows the Mark Complete button when students navigate through the module wit...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 4 Replies

The issue: For a Group Assignment, if a student does not belong to a group, neither they or the instructor will see comments left for the student in SpeedGrader or Submission Details.  However, the co...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
  • 11 Replies

Currently the student View button for Account Admins is tied to the Course (Add/Edit/Delete) permission. Users must have this permission to have the student view button. We believe this permission sho...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
  • 19 Replies

Inherited LTI keys are nice because there's no need to manage LTI configuration settings. However, there is no way to manage whether individual placements are enabled or disabled. One glaring example ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 6 Replies

Emojis are only built into Canvas' Chat, but not in discussions.It would be really useful to have such a major feature integrated into discussions through a button in the text editor.Most people don't...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
  • 10 Replies

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
  • 5 Replies

Working with parents, we would love for teachers to have access to parent view just like they have student view. This would be very helpful in seeing what they can see so we can provide parent support...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 8 Replies

Our teachers regularly use Sections to differentiate due dates and pacing for different groups of students. Adding students to a section is more cumbersome than in other LMSs we've used. Our teachers ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 7 Replies

When this was added as an option it was defaulted to checked for all courses and new courses without an option in admin settings. Students can make groups without the teacher knowing, as the teacher d...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
  • 4 Replies