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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Ability to customise student facing Catalog pages

Status: Identified
Submitted Wednesday Submitted by Wednesday Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 0
 

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. 
 

Increase view options for instructors in gradebook

Status: Identified
Submitted Tuesday Submitted by Tuesday Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 1

Theme Overview

Instructors often want to be able to visualize data about their students' performance within the gradebook. This theme is around providing more view options.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Ability to sort scores on various parameters

Enhance contributable items in Canvas Commons

Status: Identified
Submitted 01-31-2023 Submitted by 01-31-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 2

Theme Overview

Better organized resources and search, sort, import and share capabilities within Commons.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors could filter and sort down searches
  • Instructors could share all types of content into Commons including rubrics, syllabi etc.
  • Instructors could import specific items into courses
  • Admins will receive enhanced safeguards during the course import process

Additional filtering and reporting options in Admin Analytics

Status: Identified
Submitted 05-15-2023 Submitted by 05-15-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 3

Theme Overview

Admins need more robust filtering and additional detail in reports. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Admins can identify the external tools being used in courses
  • Admins can filter by custom roles to understand how different populations are engaging with Canvas
  • Admins are able to save filters

Admin Analytics upgrades

Status: Identified
Submitted 05-15-2023 Submitted by 05-15-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 1

Theme Overview

Admins want additional improvements that enhance the Admin Analytics experience. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Users can access course numbers in course status lists

Further improvements for Canvas Catalog

Status: Identified
Submitted 05-13-2023 Submitted by 05-13-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 1

Theme Overview

Admins need to be able to display alerts, outages, or issues to students

What value could this provide to users?

  • Admins could share information with students and other admins more efficiently

Improved video management in Canvas Studio

Status: Identified
Submitted 05-13-2023 Submitted by 05-13-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 1

Theme Overview

Instructional designers need to efficiently manage view, share, and comment functionalities on videos

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructional designers will have greater control over Studio media functionalities.

Introduce refined reporting in Admin Analytics

Status: Identified
Submitted 05-13-2023 Submitted by 05-13-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 2

Theme Overview

Admins need to filter out cross-listed child courses from reports

What value could this provide to users?

  • Admins would be able to see a cleaner dashboard

Extend New Analytics reporting capabilities

Status: Identified
Submitted 05-09-2023 Submitted by 05-09-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 3

Theme Overview

Admins and instructors need increased abilities to create reports

What value could this provide to users?

  • Admins would be able to create reports from the entire semester
 

Build new or more robust API endpoints

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-06-2023 Submitted by 02-06-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 14

Theme Overview

Certain integration or auditing use cases are impossible due to missing API endpoints, or API fields

What value could this provide to users?

  • Too many to list, but generally just making the API more robust so that better integrations can be built, or admins can get data for various audits and investigations

Add more complexity to Numeric and Formula Question Types for STEM quizzes

Status: Identified
Submitted 04-24-2023 Submitted by 04-24-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 14

Theme Overview

Instructors need more dynamic functionality for Numeric and Formula question types.

What value could this provide to users?

  • STEM teachers would be able to use formula and numeric question types with fewer limitations
  • Better settings to customize formula question types
  • Teachers in STEM classes could ask more complex questions

 

Expose back-end data more readily throughout Canvas

Status: Identified
Submitted 05-01-2023 Submitted by 05-01-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 1

Theme Overview

There are certain important backend data elements that are not readily exposed. This theme encapsulates feature ideas that aim to expose backend data more readily in the API, UI, or reports.

What value could this provide to users?

Decrease friction when launching and using LTI tools

Status: Identified
Submitted 04-28-2023 Submitted by 04-28-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 1

Theme Overview

Users accessing LTI tools want the experience to be seamless so that they do not need to track which service they are using at any given moment, they can just accomplish their work efficiently. The focus of this theme is on enabling tool providers to create smooth user experiences when working between the tool and Canvas.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Making more data available to tool providers so that they can appropriately mirror Canvas experiences.
  • Ensuring the data made available to third party tools matches the data that Canvas uses.

Expand types of questions for more creative assessments

Status: Identified
Submitted 04-24-2023 Submitted by 04-24-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 7

Theme Overview

Instructors need new question types to vary the ways that they can assess mastery of concepts

What value could this provide to users?

  • Teachers would be able to add question types to quizzes in more creative ways
  • Teachers would be able to assess speaking skills through audio recording responses

Facilitate inclusion of diverse student groups in Canvas

Status: Identified
Submitted 04-18-2023 Submitted by 04-18-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 5

Theme Overview

Different student groups have different needs, including those with different abilities, gender identities, learning styles and other characteristics. The goal of this theme is to facilitate inclusion of these students within Canvas.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Improve visibility of user’s selected pronouns to instructors
 

Empower Admin and Teachers to make Data Driven Decisions about the Learner Experience

Status: Identified
Submitted 04-05-2023 Submitted by 04-05-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 1

Theme Overview

In order for instructors and admin to best support learners, they need to be able to gather data about what learners are currently experiencing and the effects it has. This theme is focused on empowering admin and teachers in these decisions by providing them with necessary data.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Data about student-to-student and student-to-teacher interactions
  • Data about student usage of Canvas
  • Data about student responses to teacher interventions

Improve ability for tool developers to use same functionality between Canvas and other LTI Platforms

Status: Identified
Submitted 03-24-2023 Submitted by 03-24-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 1

Theme Overview

Tools can’t afford to write separate integrations for every platform and every difference between our platform and others increases the cost to tool providers to serve our customers. This includes work to follow LTI specifications as well as other development standards.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Reducing integration costs by increasing uniformity makes more tools available in our ecosystem so that customers can leverage more tools to improve learning.

Improve Program Assessment functionality

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-24-2023 Submitted by 02-24-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 1

Theme Overview

Improvements to measure learning program effectiveness

What value could this provide to users?

  • Enable admins and instructors to have more control over reviewers and review strategies of the artifacts

Improved gradebook access and control settings

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-05-2023 Submitted by 02-05-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 7

Theme Overview

Between permissions, assignment settings, and gradebook settings, there still is not enough flexibility to give the correct level of access and control to certain individuals.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Separate various permissions and/or assignment/gradebook settings for further control of read/write/edit access
  • Control over who can edit or post grades and when
  • Allow for grading activity without allowing full gradebook access
  • Increased anonymity for rubrics/outcomes and other grading features
  • Provide additional controls over grading policies

Build dynamic question types

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-06-2023 Submitted by 02-06-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 18

Theme Overview

Instructors need question types that are feature rich and flexible

What value could this provide to users?

  • Teachers would be able to apply partial credit to more question Types
  • Teachers would be able to format questions in more question types if RCE was available in more question types and in answers
  • Teachers in STEM classes could ask more complex questions