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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Provide more course-level controls to govern student behavior

Status: Identified
Submitted 01-30-2023 Submitted by 01-30-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 10

Theme Overview

Instructors want to exercise more control over student permissions to help facilitate positive course collaboration and prevent unwanted content from being viewed.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors have the option to moderate discussions, preventing students from seeing inappropriate content
  • Close existing loopholes for attaching documents to discussions, even when prohibited in Course Settings
  • Add additional controls over student ability to Conferences and Collaborations in Course Settings

Provide More Granularity for Permissions Configuration

Status: Identified
Submitted 01-20-2023 Submitted by 01-20-2023 Comments: 1 Referenced Ideas: 30

Theme Overview

There is a need to either split existing permissions, or add new ones, so that admins can create roles that can do their jobs without extraneous permissions. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Moderate discussions is split into separate permissions for add/edit/delete
  • Calendar event management is split into add/edit/delete permissions instead of 1
  • Make student view its own permission

Provide More Printing Options in Canvas

Status: Identified
Submitted 01-20-2023 Submitted by 01-20-2023 Comments: 1 Referenced Ideas: 7

Theme Overview

Instructors want to print specific content within Canvas to facilitate in-class instruction, save for their records, or to meet accreditation requirements.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors can download and print a printer-friendly version of the Syllabus and People page
  • Communication between instructors and students can be downloaded and printed

Save Admins Time and Clicks

Status: Identified
Submitted 01-20-2023 Submitted by 01-20-2023 Comments: 1 Referenced Ideas: 18

Theme Overview

Simplify admin tasks with basic functionality enhancements 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Central place exists for all users to access, launch access to all tools licensed by an institution.
  • Able to easily access a newly created course to enable next actions
  • Able to see Syllabus page version history and revert to prior versions
  • Enable workflow for (optional) automated Creds badge assignment at course completion, also API access to badging
  • Portfolium specific: provisioning cleanup -- automated access, rostering; adding faculty access without explicit admin invitation

 

Simplify bulk course tasks

Status: Identified
Submitted 01-30-2023 Submitted by 01-30-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 27

Theme Overview

Performing bulk course tasks can be repetitive, time-consuming, and error-prone. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Admins and instructors can share content and announcements to multiple courses at the same time
  • Blueprints are refined, cleaning up the copy and delete workflows to make them easier to use
  • Add bulk delete, select, edit functionality where possible (e.g. batch edit for assignment due dates)
  • Admins and instructors have more granular control over what is copied/imported when copying/importing content in a course, reducing clean up in the destination course

Support version management for course content

Status: Identified
Submitted 01-30-2023 Submitted by 01-30-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 8

Theme Overview 

Instructors want more versioning in Canvas so they can have greater visibility into feedback given if content changes, as well as revert to previous versions if needed.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors can see previous assignment version history and revert to prior versions
  • Rubrics are versioned so that admins and instructors can tie feedback given to specific versions of the Rubric

Tools and functionality to help instructors or designers build engaging courses

Status: Identified
Submitted 01-29-2023 Submitted by 01-29-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 18
 

Theme Overview

Enable templates, customizations, support new content types to create engaging courseware

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructional designer:
    • Able to use a SCORM as a plug-in in the RCE toolbar and add it as an assignment in all the courses
    • Able to use image editing options and add responsive images to the RCE
    • Able to choose from pre-templated content themes in the RCE
    • Able to add an option to set the border collapse tag to collapsed or separate in border properties, so users can make use of cellspacing without needing to edit HTML codes.
    • Able to use a native course evaluation tool in Canvas
    • Able to export a text version of a course outline in Modules
    • Able to set a front page for every module as a dynamic home page
    • Able to add internal prerequisites within modules based on completion of all the activities under headers
    • Able to add pre-designed native HTML elements in the RCE that can be readily slotted into pages

UI Controls and Usability - Loading Message

Status: Identified
Submitted 01-20-2023 Submitted by 01-20-2023 Comments: 1 Referenced Ideas: 2

Theme Overview

Error message only displays when there is truly an error that blocks the user going forward Error message includes clear description of what the error is/ what input is causing the error Error message includes recommended user actions to fix the incorrect input

Clear indication of when a page is still loading (a function is still processing - e.g. listing courses, completing a search, etc.) so the user knows not to navigate away from the page and that it is not an error.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Visual indication of page loading (and ideally, a progress bar)

UI Controls and Usability - Clear and Actionable Error Messages

Status: Identified
Submitted 01-20-2023 Submitted by 01-20-2023 Comments: 2 Referenced Ideas: 12

Theme Overview

Clear indication of what the error is and what steps the user can take to correct the input

What value could this provide to users?

  • Error message only displays when there is truly an error that blocks the user going forward
  • Error message includes clear description of what the error is/ what input is causing the error
  • Error message includes recommended user actions to fix the incorrect input