Canvas Themes

Ideas submitted by Community members are mapped to Themes. All Themes that have not been prioritized (selected by Instructure and the Community to deliver) can be found here.

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Theme Overview

Prioritizing the learner experience, but with educator's pain point in mind. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Educators have a simple and flexible user interface that adds controls and saves them time 
  • Students have an improved user experience that offers more guidance and visibility into progress 
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Admins and instructors can take action on their data.

What value could this provide to users?

Admins and instructors can take relevant action based on the data they see.

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Admins and instructors might want to filter or manipulate data in a different way.

What value could this provide to users?

This could allow admins and instructors to view more relevant data in the moment.

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Admins and instructors might want to see additional data in their reports and data visualizations.

What value could this provide to users?

With a broader scope of visibility, admins and instructors can make better decisions.

 
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Canvas enabled GraphQL support to permit more efficient querying of its data. Some users have indicated a need for additional functionality before they can take full advantage of GraphQL.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Provide scoping so that admin can limit the types of data a given GraphQL API key can query in order to protect privacy and security.
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Streamline Blueprint workflows to save admins time and improve the experience for educators. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Additional content (e.g. Feature Options) can be synced
  • Improved workflows that reduce clicks and help make content comparisons easier
  • Ability to set default behavior for certain workflows
  • Bulk and granular controls available
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This Theme is created to collect improvement ideas for analytics related improvements within Canvas Credentials.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Providing more accurate analytics
  • Introduce more customisation to analytics data 
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These theme is created to collect improvement ideas for the New Analytics in Catalog.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Further improvements by their use cases
  • Improved filtering and sorting options by their needs
  • Better UX based on feedback
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The badge archival feature in Canvas Credentials allows administrators or badge issuers to securely store and preserve badges that are no longer actively used or relevant. This feature ensures proper management and organization of badges within the system.

What value could this provide to users?

  • The badge archival feature helps maintain a clean and clutter-free badge repository by removing obsolete or outdated badges from active circulation.
  • Archiving badges also helps administrators maintain data integrity and compliance by preserving historical records while reducing potential confusion for users.
  • Additionally, this feature enhances the overall user experience by enabling easier navigation and access to relevant, up-to-date badges, optimizing th
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Theme Overview

The goal is to enhance the course copy and blueprint features in Canvas by including the automatic transfer of badges and pathways, enabling instructors to easily duplicate courses with similar content and credentialing needs. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors and administrators can optimize their workflow by using the course copy and blueprint functionalities of Canvas to automatically transfer credentials (badges and pathways) to multiple courses across various semesters, and synchronize them across related courses.
  • This enhancement improves efficiency, scalability, and user experience within Canvas Credentials, benefiting instructors and enabling seamless course replication with associated credentials.
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Theme Overview

Scaling up the usage of Canvas Credentials requires optimizing infrastructure, improving user onboarding, and enhancing platform performance.

What value could this provide to users?

  • These initiatives enable Canvas Credentials to efficiently handle increased user traffic, provide a seamless user experience, and empower a larger user base to access and utilize its educational resources effectively, thereby maximizing the value of the platform for educators and learners.
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A growing number of institutions want additional tools in building their competency/outcomes-based courses.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Canvas Outcomes can be tied to additional content in Canvas

 

 Why was this theme chosen to open for voting?

April 2023 • As more institutions move toward competency-based education models, we want to ensure that we support a more seamless learning platform that works end to end.

 Why was this theme not chosen for prioritization?

June 2023 • Support for competency-based education initiatives is critical to our strategy; however, this theme does not fit within our capacity for 2H as we continue to deliver on our core roadmap and is something we will evaluate in further quarters. 

 

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Theme Overview

Improved user experience, more granular controls over course import and course copy behavior, and reconsidered defaults.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Improved user experience design that helps prevent mistakes and makes the tool easy to use for busy educators
  • More logical default behavior that saves time and frustration for admins, educators, and students
  • Additional options to control what or how content is imported into the new course
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This Theme is dedicated to functions and features which would help admins customise their student facing Catalog pages, without using custom JS/CSS. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Admins would like to customise/brand their Catalog main page, course cards, course details, registration page and links and buttons - this will be available without any use of custom JS/CSS and external development or designer resources. 
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Admins spend a lot of time configuring LTI tools and are limited in their ability to set up, view, and customize them, often resulting in time spent removing and reinstalling.

What value could this provide to users?

  • More UI options to configure or modify LTI tool configurations
  • Greater flexibility in LTI tool configuration; specifically around tool visibility and access

 

Why was this theme chosen to open for voting?

April 2023 • As we continue to develop our LTI 1.3 solution, we want to ensure we’re meeting user needs and making installation and configuration as seamless as possible.

Why was this theme not chosen for prioritization?

June 2023 • We are prioritizing work on Dynamic Registration, which is a precursor to the LTI flexibility improvements. We will be creating a report which will enable administrators to find all enabled developer keys in a system as well as the permissions they have been granted (including for inherited keys.) Release notes on this will be coming soon. Although we’re not able to commit to the theme as a whole, as we have capacity we will do our best to make small improvements in this area, as we recognize it is important to our users.

 

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Theme Overview

Improved Studio Media functionalities and new features

What value could this provide to users?

  • Able to use a Studio Chrome Extension for quick screen/web cam recordings
  • Able to add Vimeo Showcases
  • Able to use both Standard embed and Video Guiz embed tabs
  • Able to change default settings from comments toggled on to downloads
  • Able to add timestamps in the video description field

 

Why was this theme chosen to open for voting?

April 2023 • Video-based learning content improves student engagement. We are focusing on simpler ways to create and manage this type of content.

Why was this theme not chosen for prioritization?

June 2023 • While we have delivered on select ideas within this theme, we won’t be able to deliver on the key outcomes in this larger theme and plan to break it down into smaller themes targeted at specific needs and problems. 

 

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Theme Overview

Improved customization and flexibility enhanced reporting and analytics, and more granular permissions and controls for course listing and enrollment management

What value could this provide to users?

  • Admins have more flexibility in listing management to more easily order, duplicate, and correct listing details and catalogs as well as hide currency values for non-charged courses.
  • Admins can restrict Catalog courses after 'days to complete' have expired
  • Admins need better communication when there are changes in course enrollment (e.g. drop, reached cap, etc)
  • Admins want more reporting flexibility to understand performance based on time period, financial refunds based on enrollment changes, and a way to export listing reports
  • Catalog Analytics needs more flexibility in administrative management to add / edit Able to add/edit email addresses
  •  Admins want the ability to add metadata to course listings such as the start and end date year,
  • Admins want flexibility in managing student enrollments through better tools to manually add, edit, correct, and remove enrollments
  • Admins want more granular permissions to manage and restrict enrollments and registrations and their associated metadata on a subcatalog level
  • Admins want a simplified user experience for Catalog mobile that reduces redundant and time-consuming tasks
  • Admins want enhanced automation to update listing titles and paths based on changes to Canvas course names and codes, enable automated notifications to users, and auto-enroll participants into programs.
  • Automated notifications to inform end users and admins of changes to listings and enrollments
  • Admins want flexibility in supporting promotional codes to support multiple listings and gifts as well as notifications when new promotions are created.
  • Admins want more permissions to initiate the process of creating multiple subcatalog payment gateways
  • Admins want flexibility in Certificate of Completion development including the ability to use RCE, design multiple Certificates of Completion at a sub-catalog or catalog level at the root level as well as restrict editing.
  • Admins want more waitlist flexibility in order set a custom time frame for waitlisted learners to claim an open spot and to be able to accept waitlist spots and continue to payment
  • Admins want additional customization tools to manage catalog headers, colors, and fonts
  • Admins want better synchronization between Canvas and Catalog to keep enrollment data up to data as well as send automated notifications of changes

 

Why was this theme chosen to open for voting?

April 2023 • Catalog plays an important role when it comes to managing course listings and enrollments. By identifying opportunities to support additional flexibility, we can provide admins with more robust tools to both understand enrollment performance and better support the course listing management lifecycle.

Why was this theme not chosen for prioritization?

June 2023 • While we are investing in improving flexibility in Catalog listing management and reporting via efforts such as our storefront customization (in the roadmap), we will not be able to address the outcome of this theme in its entirety and plan to break down this theme into smaller themes per the feedback we’ve heard. 

 

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Theme Overview

Data management capabilities for Administrators will enable them to manage their video content across the entire account.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Account wide video content search
  • Support for storage management
  • Having all the information at one place on any video content
  • Managing leaving or retiring users’ media Library
  • Quickly viewing any user’s content without acting as the user
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Increased property options and editing functionalities, frequent learner progress updates 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Able to have a multi select property type in custom badge properties, so that I can select more than one from the predefined property options.
  • Able to re-order custom metadata fields as part of the editing functionality, so that I can re-arrange these fields even after submission.
  • Able to see a larger image of the badge on the description page, so that I can differentiate between institutional brand and credential level.
  • Able to change between automatic and manual awarding of a badge, so that I can have greater control and fewer issues that comes with deleting and recreating.
  • Able to receive badge awards right away once progress has been made, so that I can be sure I did everything well.

 

Why was this theme chosen to open for voting?

April 2023 • With the rise of digital badging issuance and sharing, both issuers and learners are looking for more robust and flexible badge management capabilities.

Why was this theme not chosen for prioritization?

June 2023 • We have delivered on the multi-select in custom badge properties idea, our focus for 2H will be in key roadmap commitments such as Blueprint / course copy support.

 

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Theme Overview

Instructors need to search, group, and add questions from item banks in different ways. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Refine a search by using a filter in the item bank then generate a random number of questions so that I can define a subset of questions that can all be used, randomized, or specify a set # of questions that can be randomized.
  • Use key word search to easily locate a question in a large list

 

Why was this theme chosen to open for voting?

April 2023 • Instructors rely on Item Banks as repositories for quiz questions. To facilitate the transition to New Quizzes, we want to maximize what instructors can do with their questions so that they can access, share, and copy their most important items.

Why was this theme not chosen for prioritization?

June 2023 • Given our current roadmap for New Quizzes, we will not be able to prioritize this specific theme at the current time beyond the work that is already communicated on the roadmap in the New Quizzes Hub.