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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Catalog Enrollment Improvements

Status: Identified
Submitted 10-05-2023 Submitted by 10-05-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 2

Theme Overview

This is a theme collecting ideas on how we can improve the enrollment flow in Catalog.

What value could this provide to users?

  • More seamless enrollment flow for students
  • Options for managing enrollments for admins
  • Collecting student information during enrollments (UDFs)
  • UX improvements

Catalog Payment Related Improvements

Status: Identified
Submitted 10-05-2023 Submitted by 10-05-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 5

Theme Overview

This is a Theme to collect payment related improvement ideas for Catalog. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Adding new Payment Providers
  • Managing Payment Providers 
  • Supporting refunds
  • Managing promo codes

Catalog Certificate Improvements

Status: Identified
Submitted 10-05-2023 Submitted by 10-05-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 3

Theme Overview

This is a theme dedicated to collect improvement ideas on certificates within Catalog.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Catalog Admins will have more options to customise Catalog certificates
  • Catalog Admins will have more options to manage Catalog certificates

Bulk purchase improvements

Status: Identified
Submitted 10-05-2023 Submitted by 10-05-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 3

Theme Overview

This is a theme dedicated to improve on the bulk purchase and enrollment feature in Catalog.

What value could this provide to users?

  • More flexibility on managing the bulk purchase or enrollments feature

Take new or different actions on data

Status: Identified
Submitted 05-15-2023 Submitted by 05-15-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 0

Theme Overview

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.

Filter or manipulate data in a new or different way

Status: Identified
Submitted 05-13-2023 Submitted by 05-13-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 6

Theme Overview

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.

Make new or different data available in Reporting and Analytics

Status: Identified
Submitted 05-09-2023 Submitted by 05-09-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 9

Theme Overview

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.

 

Improve GraphQL usability and function

Status: Identified
Submitted 08-09-2023 Submitted by 08-09-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 2

Theme Overview

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.

Update and improve Blueprint workflows and syncing options

Status: Identified
Submitted 07-21-2023 Submitted by 07-21-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 3

Theme Overview

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

Canvas Credentials analytics improvements

Status: Identified
Submitted 07-18-2023 Submitted by 07-18-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 5

Theme Overview

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 

Catalog Analytics Improvements

Status: Identified
Submitted 06-28-2023 Submitted by 06-28-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 5

Theme Overview

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

Canvas Credentials integration with course copy and blueprint functionalities

Status: Identified
Submitted 06-21-2023 Submitted by 06-21-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 0

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.

Scale up the usage of Canvas Credentials

Status: Identified
Submitted 06-21-2023 Submitted by 06-21-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 9

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.

Increase control over course import and course copy behavior

Status: Identified
Submitted 06-15-2023 Submitted by 06-15-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 13
 

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

Ability to customise student facing Catalog pages

Status: Identified
Submitted 05-24-2023 Submitted by 05-24-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 1

Theme Overview

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. 

Expand flexibility of LTI configuration and visibility

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-06-2023 Submitted by 02-06-2023 Comments: 12 Referenced Ideas: 12

Theme Overview

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.

 

Learner Records, Achievements, Recognition

Status: Identified
Submitted 01-30-2023 Submitted by 01-30-2023 Comments: 5 Referenced Ideas: 4

Theme Overview

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.

 

Increase search functionality and flexibility of questions in Item Banks

Status: Identified
Submitted 01-20-2023 Submitted by 01-20-2023 Comments: 7 Referenced Ideas: 20

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.

 

Add new functionality for long-term data management

Status: Identified
Submitted 01-31-2023 Submitted by 01-31-2023 Comments: 13 Referenced Ideas: 2

Theme Overview

Institutions do not have a systematic way to manage old/stale data; certain objects they'd like to have deleted after some period of time so that it doesn't clutter their interface. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Admins can provide a data retention policy for various Canvas objects (ex: users/courses/files)
  • Objects that "expire" can be automatically deleted from the Canvas database
  • Admins have a grace period and UI to review objects that Canvas has slated for future deletion
  • A user that is slated for deletion can see that their user will be deleted; admins can customize the message that the user sees so that the user can notify them if it seems to be a mistake
  • A course that is slated for deletion will show a prominent message stating that it will be deleted on XYZ data; admins can customize this message for the call to action in case someone thinks the course shouldn't be deleted

 

Why was this theme chosen to open for voting?

April 2023 • As customers continue to use Canvas for longer durations, their data will grow. We want to enable better data management as well as compliance with privacy and security standards.

Why was this theme not chosen for prioritization?

June 2023 • In researching this theme and potential approaches to solve it, we identified cross-system dependencies which require more evaluation. However, we recognize the value in supporting data retention capabilities and plan to reconsider this for priority in the first half of 2024 while we continue our product and technical discovery.

 

Increase parity between mobile and web versions of Canvas

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-04-2023 Submitted by 02-04-2023 Comments: 8 Referenced Ideas: 18

Theme Overview

There are certain desirable features in the web version of Canvas that people want on the Mobile Apps.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Do more things on mobile that can currently only be done on the web.

 

Why was this theme chosen to open for voting?

April 2023 • As users become more adept at using their mobile devices to learn, they are voicing their additional needs. Understanding our users’ needs by modality will allow us to make more informed decisions about our mobile and web strategy.

Why was this theme not chosen for prioritization?

June 2023 • While we plan to address some ideas within this theme, our Mobile team will not be able to commit to the theme at large given other roadmap priorities.