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.

To participate in Ideas and Themes, 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. Any Community user can comment and vote on active Themes. Learn more about how to rank up in the Community.

Filter Idea Conversations:

1701 Ideas in: Added To Theme

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
  • 4 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
  • 4 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
  • 2 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
  • 9 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
  • 17 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
  • 4 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
  • 8 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
  • 3 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
  • 6 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
  • 5 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
  • 2 Replies

We have Announcements, we have graded assignments, and we have course grades, so why not add to the widgets for the ToDo List? That way, everyone is able to see the things that they need to do right f...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
  • 15 Replies

John  Smith is a valid username. Do you see the problem with it? You will never find it in the people list if you assume the 2 spaces in the name should just be 1 space. Canvas don't consider this to ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 4 Replies

In both Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes, students see the version of a quiz as it existed when they started taking it. If questions are changed or feedback is added after students start the quiz, only...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
  • 10 Replies

Hello! We would love to see a permission to disallow or prevent users enrolled in blueprint courses from syncing unsynced changes. When a user is enrolled as a Teacher or Designer in a blueprint cours...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 6 Replies

If we have a blueprint shell for a course that has multiple cohorts starting on different dates, eg. some on April 5th, others on April 8th, we should be able to adjust the dates before copying out th...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
  • 3 Replies

Several times I have been working on an assignment rubric, then switch back to the assignment to add some detail or make some other edit. I do this, of course, without thinking about the fact that rub...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 12 Replies

You should be able to go from low to high score or high to low score on rubrics.  Probably one of the most difficult items to complete the way it is (range is a good option but there is a lot of playi...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
  • 3 Replies

Simple suggestion:  when creating a rubric the "edit" and "delete" icons are right next to each other.  Numerous times I've hit "delete" instead of "edit" and have to redo the criteria. Simply move th...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
  • 4 Replies

Our root account has 82 Courses 25 Sub-Accounts.When I look at the course list at the root level there are 3910 pages of results, 58,650 coursesI can not find the 82 courses at the root level in this ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 4 Replies