Canvas Ideas

Ideas are submissions from Community users. Instructure reviews these ideas weekly.

To participate in Ideas, 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. Learn more about how to rank up in the Community.

Filter Idea Conversations:

3360 Ideas in: Open

Problem statement: Cuando el usuario trata de crear un nuevo tema dentro del foro, cuando va navegando por los distintos campos de formulario, el lector de pantalla no le interpreta si hay alguno obli...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: The Canvas system (very rationally) requires that grades be included in the semester grade or not be included. There are limited ways to calculate a grade. One problem arises when s...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: When a due date is past and the "available till" date is past, students can't access an assignment at all. If I leave the "available till" date open past the due date, they can stil...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: When selecting Commons, or other LTIs from their global navigation placement, a selected status is not displayed on the menu item. Users expect that the selected menu item will be h...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: When we are searching for a user in the People section, it does not tell us what role they are in Canvas next to their name. This issue comes up often because we often have parents ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 4 Replies

Problem statement: Today I added one instructor 14 different Canvas course sections (Sections A through N). The instructor only received a course invite for Section A and Section A was the only sectio...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 4 Replies

Problem statement: When Canvas admins import materials from another course, there is a solitary box available next to "Search for a course". One may begin typing the name of a course, but since we hav...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
  • 2 Replies

Problem statement: I need to update various course settings in 27 Blueprint courses and then sync the changes to their associated courses. After I made this update the option to sync to their associat...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: Studio integration with Rich Content Editor should keep your spot when selecting videos to add to a page/assignment/quiz/etc. When selecting Studio via the Rich Content Editor, I ha...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
  • 4 Replies

Problem statement: Students are enrolled in our courses only via SIS; lecturers/TA/etc. are not allowed to enroll students in courses themselves. However, they should be able to use sections in their ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 4 Replies

Problem statement: I have several video collections saved in my library with the appropriate course titles. When I want to share these collections with a course there is no way to automatically add a ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
  • 4 Replies

Problem statement: It would be helpful to have the ability to use the SEND TO... other teachers from the Assignment groups. We can SEND TO... from the Modules, but not the Assignments. Proposed solut...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: As a teacher, when I got into "People" I can see all of the groups that I have created for various assignment (for example: STEM Fair, Osmosis Lab, Body Systems, etc). Each group ty...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
  • 4 Replies

Problem statement: When editing course assignments dates, all assignments are listed in alphabetical order; which is not useful for designing chronological module assignments. Proposed solution: Add ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: When I import a few modules from an old course, the quizzes, pages, discussions, and such do not get imported unless I check the boxes to import them. That is a pain, and I usually ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 4 Replies

Problem statement: I use the fill in the blank option in canvas new quizzes to create guided stats write-ups. There will be dozens (sometimes even over 100) blanks in a write up. I try my best ahead o...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply

Problem statement: Problem: Even though it is possible to select multiple Pages to delete (by placing a checkmark next to each page name), there isn't a way in the Canvas UI to select all pages at one...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
  • 5 Replies

Problem statement: When we have students with disabilities, a common accommodation is to provide additional time for each quiz or exam. Currently, we have to make changes to each quiz and exam separat...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
  • 2 Replies

Problem statement: We have parent subcatalogs that have admins that manage it and the child subcatalogs underneath it. It would be great if these subcatalog admins can have a view-only permission to s...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
  • 2 Replies

Problem statement: In the Provisioning Report for Courses, the course start and end date are only provided if the course participation is listed as Course instead of Term. If the course start and end ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
  • 1 Reply