Canvas Ideas

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Problem statement: All pages have a white background. Proposed solution: My suggestion is to have a way to change the page background or add an image to make it more attractive to students. User rol...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Third party LTI tool links or embed options are usually only available on the course navigation for enabled tools. There are products we would like to easily link from the link inse...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: On a Page, I would expect that inserting a hyperlink to a course image would do just that: create a hyperlink that, if clicked on, would open up the image in a new window. Instead, ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I am trying to condense the size of my table and Just make the text fit without too much white space. Is there a way in which we can edit a table to fit the wording in rather than h...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We created a Canvas course in which we house many faculty resources. We want faculty to be able to use the Copy To feature so that it is easy to copy over a quiz or page to their co...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I cannot find a way to customize the spacing between lines, for either continuous text or between new paragraphs, when entering text onto a Canvas page. For example, I have created ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I feel theres a large option thats an easy win for Canvas missing at the moment and that is pre-designed html elements that can be readily slotted into pages by staff.  This is currently provided at c...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Instructional designer would like to use SCORM as a plug-in in the RCE toolbar and add as an assignment in all of the courses they are designing. Currently it is only available at the Course Navigatio...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We would like to see a native course evaluations tool in Canvas out of the box beyond that of a simple Canvas survey.  There are many external tools that can be connected to Canvas for this purpose, b...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Home pages are often set with information that is essential on the first day of class, but that students do not need to review every time they visit the course.  Meanwhile, getting students to move on...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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This would produce an editable file that could be used for course planning and revisions. The format could be txt or docx. It would allow an instructor or course designer to easily mark up the course ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Currently, table properties allow for Cell Padding and Cell Spacing. Cell spacing will not be visible when the border-collapse property is set to collapse, but will be present when set to separate. I ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice if the New Rich Content Editor could have new image options to add elements to images or objects in general, such as: Borders With color selection PaddingMarginsImage Alignment In lin...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Ever more we are seeing quality in design being an issue for accreditation.  Let's face it, the ability for an institution to have a common look and feel from course to course is a problem.  Content i...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Currently the rich content editor strips the srcset and sizes attribute from the img tag. These features have established cross browser support and make it easier to include responsive images.

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This idea is to add internal prerequisites within modules based on completion of all the activities under headers used to subdivide the module. In some cases sequential completion of individual activi...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I'm a designer.  I have a ton of courses in my "all courses" list, and would like to periodically switch which ones I'm able to quickly access from my customized list, even if the course is one from t...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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