Canvas Ideas

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Problem statement: Even though users in Canvas LMS may choose to enable pronouns they do not attach to emails; Canvas emails are highly impersonal and this would add more personalization to the barren...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When Observer's send the Instructor an email, it does not say who their student is. Not all students have the same last name as their parents. I have to email them back and ask who ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The Observer/Student communication is restricted to one way communication. observers can message their studentsstudents cannot message their observer Reason for the Problem: As a K-...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: My teachers often read and respond to Canvas messages through the automated e-mail they get, and rarely go into their Canvas Inbox. At the beginning of the year, they have hundreds ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Assignment and Quiz Submission Comments are available in the Canvas > Inbox > Submission Comment area, but they cannot be filtered by "unread". The endless list of comments shows mi...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently Inbox does not support either forwarding messages to oneself, or exporting messages, as a means of retrieving messages from Inbox and storing them either locally or in one...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Teachers cannot currently message people in Canvas from more than one class. Teachers have requested the ability to include administrators and counselors in some of their Canvas Mes...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When I need to message an observer and student individually, I have to look up their observers individual names and type them in to the Canvas email. This takes FOREVER. Proposed s...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Having access to assignment comments in Inbox is really helpful. Please include a way to view sent assignment comments. Currently, only assignments comments you have received show u...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Let's say a student has 6 messages in their Canvas inbox, one from each teacher scheduling a zoom meeting. The student was already told by their teachers that there will be a Zoom m...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Give us the ability to turn on by default "send individual messages" when sending to more than one student.  The default should be more privacy versus less privacy. 

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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We are able to archive inbox messages, but it would be great if we could also archive sent messages.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When a student sends an email/message in Canvas, it currently only shows the original section title. This title is often not helpful and later renamed by teachers (ex: Period 2). Can the renamed secti...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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When writing a message to a parent, Observer, it can be very difficult to know who their parent is exactly without having to first search through the People page. The People page does not allow us to ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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As an instructor, it would be really great if I could write a message to my students in inbox, and schedule it to send at a later time. I love this feature in gmail, and would like to see it here as w...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Hi   I put forward the request to add a trash folder as part of the Canvas inbox system.  https://community.canvaslms.com/message/196984-re-if-i-send-an-email-through-canvas-and-i-accidently-delete-it...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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As a user, I would like to be able to use the rich-content editor to compose messages in the Conversations inbox. This would enable me to create Conversations that are on par, formatting- and content-...

Instructure Alumni Canvas Ideas
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