Canvas Catalog Needs Your Feedback: Custom Messages for Registration Forms

[matekiss]

At Instructure, we’re constantly working to enhance your experience with Canvas Catalog, and we’re excited to introduce a potential new feature: Custom Messages on Registration Forms! But we need your expertise to shape it into something truly impactful.

This feature would allow course administrators to include personalized messages on registration forms—helpful for sharing course-specific policies, payment reminders, or a welcoming touch. As we explore this idea, we want your insights to ensure it fits seamlessly into your workflow and meets your needs.

Why Your Feedback Matters

We believe that the best features are designed with our users in mind. This questionnaire is your opportunity to tell us what matters most to you. Should custom messages be tied to individual courses, or should there be a single message for all courses? How would you like these messages to appear? Your responses will guide us in making thoughtful, user-centric decisions.

Share Your Thoughts in Just a Few Minutes!

We’ve designed a short and engaging questionnaire to gather your input. It only takes a few minutes, and every response will help us create a feature that works best for our users.

Fill out the questionnaire here: https://forms.gle/ELDuoU3jJkSFuBhCA
Deadline: February 28

Let’s Build Together

We’re excited about this journey and can’t wait to see what we can achieve with your help. Whether you’re an administrator, instructor, or key stakeholder, your input is invaluable.

Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm. Let’s create something amazing—together.

Best,
Máté

[jb2483929]

Sounds useful! Form needs to be made public.

[matekiss]

Thanks @jb2483929 ! Could you please try now?

[jb2483929]

Yes, can access now

[rpsloan]

Hi @matekiss! For those who do not use user registrations (since our third-party tool allows us to create accounts via Canvas) would this also become available for user enrollments page? If it's not doable, maybe an easier way to edit the text above/below the Enroll/Bulk Purchase buttons on the course listing page (on the right-hand side of the course image). Having the ability for custom messages would be loved by our catalog admins, but this won't be usable for them due it being tied to registration.

[hechla]

Hello @matekiss ,

I'm a little confused because the Registration only needs to happen once. While a user normally clicks through a course listing to get to the Registration page the registration isn't actually tied to a listing. When I inquired if there was any way to get analytics on which course listing the user clicked through to get the Registration page I was told that information wasn't available. And if the user is already signed in they won't get the Registration page at all so they wouldn't see any custom information on the Registration page. Therefore I would be hesitant to include anything too important on there.