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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As a K-12, we love that Canvas has built-in rubrics for assignments. We are also thankful that whatever rubric we create is displayed prominently, just beneath the content of the assignment while in s...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Currently, Canvas allows only one file to be attached to a discussion reply. We often use discussion boards as way for students to share and comment on each other's work. Having the ability to share m...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Greetings: Thank you for your time in reviewing this idea. It would be wonderful if Turnitin were enabled for Discussions posts and responses. This would prevent students from cobbling together inform...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Our faculty would like to be able to subscribe to the group discussions in their course so they can follow along, be alerted when a student posts something new, post feedback, and keep discussions on ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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