Canvas Themes

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Learner Records, Achievements, Recognition

Status: Identified
Submitted 01-30-2023 Submitted by 01-30-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 2

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 less 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.

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

Status: Identified
Submitted Friday Submitted by Friday 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

Additional functionality enhancements for Studio

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

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

Build dynamic question types

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-06-2023 Submitted by 02-06-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 38

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

Build new or more 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

Display or link or organize related items and users better

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-06-2023 Submitted by 02-06-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 2

Theme Overview

Enable linking between related items and users, display and organize them more efficiently

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors could be able to link to syllabus in modules in Canvas courses

Empower teachers and admins better manage notifications and communications capabilities for students

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-06-2023 Submitted by 02-06-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 7

Theme Overview

Teachers and Admins feel that students are missing important information related to their courses, or are confused my having too many; it's difficult to help students get the right notification configuration for a productive learning experience.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Enable/Disable Notifications for Select Courses and Sub-accounts at Admin Level
  • Student Notifications Automatically Turned On For Crucial Messages and Comments
  • Reduce notification noise by giving teachers the ability to mute notifications for specific activities or timeframes
  • Ability to set default notifications at role/account/sub-account/course level
  • Admins can disable individual users/courses conversation capabilities
  • Entering a description when marking "Notify users that this content has changed"

Expand Commons resource details and collaboration capabilities

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-06-2023 Submitted by 02-06-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 4

Theme Overview

Instructors want to see additional metadata about Commons resources as well as additional ways to collaborate with the author and other instructors.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors have the ability to view additional meta data about the resource such as assignment creator and edit history
  • Instructors have a way to collaborate with the course author
  • Instructors have a way to share Commons resource comments with multiple graders"

Expand flexibility of LTI configuration and visibility

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-06-2023 Submitted by 02-06-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 6

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

Expand options for quiz formats

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

Theme Overview

Teachers want more ways to use quizzes beyond the traditional format

What value could this provide to users?

  • Teachers can use quizzes in more innovative ways to enable team-based learning or dynamic quiz branching

Expand quiz settings for greater customization

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-05-2023 Submitted by 02-05-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 31

Theme Overview

Teachers need better ways to make point adjustments and better prompts to remind them of the differentiation between assignment points and question points. Teachers need specialized settings for subsets of students with special requirements.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Quiz settings make it possible to control when a student sees their results and what they can see
  • A Practice quiz would not count as an assignment
  • Quiz setting to allow subsequent quiz attempts to build on the last attempt only with questions that were incorrect

Facilitate better navigation and access to quiz actions

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-05-2023 Submitted by 02-05-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 13

Theme Overview

Teachers need to be able to execute actions from easily accessible locations and navigate between related screens easily

What value could this provide to users?

  • Better Navigation between quiz settings and other settings
  • Consistent experience with Assignments, Module, and Quiz pages
  • Better organization for quizzes
  • More useful actions under the kebab menus on each page
  • Index pages showing more relevant information for items
  • Add functionality that allows a user to export a New Quiz

Improve cross-student collaboration and communication

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-05-2023 Submitted by 02-05-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 12

Theme Overview

Students need more notification and information to submit peer reviews. Instructors want to use peer reviews in calculating grades. Students need better resources to make use of group homepages or templates for planning

What value could this provide to users?

  • Peer Reviews are more valuable when they can be used for grading
  • Peer Evaluations for team members on group projects
  • Peer Reviews are easier with a better-designed UI that shows rubrics and other reference information on the screen

Improve engagement and awareness by adding new notifications

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-05-2023 Submitted by 02-05-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 8

Theme Overview

Users have identified a suite of notifications that they wish they could receive.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Notification of pending profile pictures for Admins
  • Notification of error in Grade Passback Sync
  • Missing assignment email message or notification to student
  • Discussion Notification: Activity that involves you
  • Automatic Notification for changes in course enrollment status

Improve Gradebook settings options

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-05-2023 Submitted by 02-05-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 40

Theme Overview

Instructors want more options in Gradebook settings to grade more efficiently and optimize their workflows.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors can remove assignments that don't count toward final grades from the Gradebook and student grade page
  • Instructors can set a "grade release date" and other grade policies at the assignment level
  • Instructors can customize Gradebook Status (Missing, Late, Excused, etc.)
  • Allow option to have the "missing" label only apply to required assignments
  • Instructors can cap grades on additional assignment attempts
  • Save instructors additional time by scaling scores automatically and calculating a class average
  • The "hide grades" functionality is improved so it's clearer when grades are hidden

Improve quiz analysis through robust reporting

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-05-2023 Submitted by 02-05-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 17

Theme Overview

Teachers need reports that are easy to manipulate, full of useful information, and efficient to access

What value could this provide to users?

  • Quicker responses when accessing quiz and item analysis reports
  • Item Analysis, Student Analysis, and Outcomes reporting would be easy to download and in a format that is easy to manipulate
  • More information would be available in reports to help track progress or gaps

Improve the inbox functionality to provide for more meaningful communication

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-05-2023 Submitted by 02-05-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 13

Theme Overview

Instructors want additional inbox functionality and settings to customize messaging among course participants.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Provide functionality that is similar to what users would expect to see in email tools, such as signatures, RCE, scheduling of messages, auto-reply, and trash folder
  • Update the interface to allow for easy access to common actions, such as archive and delete
  • Provide additional clarity around recipients, such as showing custom section names and which student an observer is connected to
  • Allow for messaging of multiple classes at one time
  • Provide better default controls and actions

Improve the user experience with discussions to provide for more meaningful discourse among course participants

Status: Identified
Submitted 02-05-2023 Submitted by 02-05-2023 Comments: 0 Referenced Ideas: 39

Theme Overview

Improved interactions and flexibility in settings for discussions encourages deeper discourse, leading to more meaningful exchanges and opportunities to learn with and from other class participants.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Provide for more flexibility in viewing preferences
  • Update workflows to be more efficient and limit clicks
  • Improve the interface to include clear calls to action and improved usability
  • Improve student interaction and timelines for participation through added capability of multiple due dates or checkpoints
  • Improved grading and feedback workflows
  • Additional reporting options to understand user activity and edit history
  • More granular settings and role permissions within discussions
  • Better default controls and actions