Problem statement: Only able to view data for user page views one date at a time. When looking for all data points for a specific page (when a user has viewed the page multiple times) this requires a ...

Problem statement: When you copy a course it doesn't change the home page and the faculty member has to search through all the home pages and start pages to find the one they copied in. When a course ...

Problem statement: A Canvas site may want to configure an LTI 1.3 tool that is used only by instructors. They may want this tool to be available in a standardized location, like the User Account page ...

This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through the Commons Release Notes (2024-11-16)  Problem statement:...

Problem statement: A student with a high AI score in Turnitin shared after inquiring that they had fed the lecture transcripts to AI to generate responses. A second student reported downloading transc...

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...

Problem statement: Some LTI tools do not function if embedded or out in an iframe. Setting the windowTarget parameter to "_blank" in the LTI config launches the LTI tool in anew window/tab for course ...

Problem statement: Currently the only place the Turnitin Similarity Score only appears in on the flags in SpeedGrader for each individual student. It makes it difficult to see whose submissions need t...

Problem statement: In the Course search, it would be nice to be able to fuzzy search with a placeholder. We have some special numbering around course section numbers, so the ability to search for BIO ...

Problem statement: At the moment an LTI tool can find out the role of a user in Canvas (eg Teacher/Student/TA), or the LTI role that the user has. For lots of LTI tools this is enough, however when a ...

Problem statement: Right now, when I create a new event under the account calendar there is no indicator to draw users to it nor is there any notification sent of a new account calendar event. My stud...

Problem statement: When an instructor creates a group and adds students to it, it automatically creates a "Group Homepage" that the students can navigate into. In many cases, this is not necessary, be...

Idea is currently in development Problem statement: At our institution we have the "Users can edit their communication channels" setting (added Nov 30, 2022) unchecked/disabled because we do not wan...

Problem statement: The mobile app has a setting for students to show the grade percent on the dashboard course card. This should be available on the desktop. Proposed solution: The mobile app has a s...

Problem statement: The GET request "/api/v1/courses/:course_id/conferences" doesn't return "created_at" and "updated_at" timestamps which is very inconvenient in my case, — for only getting these two ...

Problem statement: Long ago we learned we had to turn OFF the Admin Setting that allowed Users to Edit their Name. (Students and Teachers would edit their name making it hard to find them, or making t...

Problem statement: E-mail notifications of Inbox messages sent to students via Canvas do not show the subject line from Canvas in the subject line of the e-mail notification. The only text that shows ...

Problem statement: When parents set up their 'observer' account in the Canvas Parent app, they only see announcements that teachers send out after they join. Any announcements sent out before they set...

Problem statement: In the Canvas Parent app, notifications are turned off by default in the settings of the app. This may cause parents to miss course announcements. Proposed solution: Instead of the...

Problem statement: Parents can't see global notifications in the Canvas Parent app. Currently, they can only see course announcements. With most parents using a mobile device to observe their child in...