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:

1877 Ideas in: Open

Problem statement: When creating a series of events, the calendar requires either: 1) consistent repetition of events or 2) individual creation of events. This prevents the creation of meetings that h...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: Teachers are finding it cumbersome to enter specific Assign To and Available From and Until for each class period. Proposed solution: It would save teachers a lot of time if, when ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: Each quarter the institution has a set of announcements that are sent out by the Admins. Instead of having to do them one by one it would save a lot of time to have the ability to u...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: With the new Announcements redesign, the announcement's creation date is recorded on the post, even if it won't be published/available until a later date. It's the date that will al...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: I teach a class of 200+ students. I like to use discussion boards, and use the "group set" option to create small groups. However, when new students join class, it is frustrating th...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: The clickable pixel area across from the options when editing assignments and discussions is not proportional to the visible object and extends far outside the visible object on the...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
  • 2 Replies

Problem statement: As an institution that has been using Canvas LMS since 2017, we've accumulated a substantial number of courses over the years. Currently, there's no easy way to identify which cours...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: LTIs and Apps get too much authority to show in all courses and admins have little ability to reign them in. When apps/links are Enabled by default, they may appear in all courses' ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
  • 2 Replies

Problem statement: Comments are not appearing in Canvas when Instuctor is in speedgrader and tries to post it (but it is saved in the pdf). This is frustrating for not only the Instructor but also the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: Hi, I've been teaching with Canvas for about 10 years and the recent changes to the way discussions work are a huge downgrade in functionality. There are several issues that make wo...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: Currently the gradebook allows teachers to see totals for particular grading periods, or an overall total. Consider the case of a course with four grading periods for which grades a...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: Canvas provides a setting to disable attachments in Discussions, but left the Document Upload option available in the formatting toolbar. As such, students can still attach files. ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: Teachers of our Senior Students need to provide them with a ranking for each formal assessment task as well as for their total grade. This is part of compliance with our regulatory ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: I was trying to save changes to an assignment and could not (no response from the browser). Eventually I figured out that the reason it would not save is because my assignment due d...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
  • 2 Replies

Problem statement: Canvas displays different course names depending on the type of home page selected. This course name is sometimes different from the name showed on the breadcrumb, depending on whet...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: The anti-plagiarism tool is not compatible with New Quizzes, so the essay questions do not verify whether the text of the student's answers have been copied from an external source ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: When an item bank is shared with users or with other courses, there is no way to detach them. This can cause many problems when using shared item banks: ISSUE 1. If a change is made...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: Teachers/schools should be able to give grading schemes on weighted assignment groups. Teachers/School sometimes report on grades for specific skills/items over semester and GPA. Ex...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: The Users - manage login details has too many thing bundled up into 1. Particularly having the 3 options listed in the title under the same permission ( 1. Create new users 2. Edit ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: Currently Discussion replies are collapsed on default. Upon landing on a discussion you can click the Expand Threads button to see all posts. There is no setting to leave this expan...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply