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I guess what I don't understand is why Canvas address? Can't be all that hard... ... View more

Ok, so this doesn't solve the problem - it's just a work around that we have already done. There are still two login pages... ... View more

How do we get this implemented? ... View more

This has pretty much been ignored by Instructure. It has definately NOT been resolved or answered. ... View more

 @Chris_Hofer : I've addressed most of the items you bring up at various times in this discussion, so I won't repeat them here. I will say that while Canvas does a good job of listening, that doesn't mean that there isn't room for improvement. I hope that loyal, longtime Canvas users are willing to look openly at the questions raised so we can all grow from them. ... View more

 @scottdennis ‌, I thought the whole point of voting on ideas was to answer half of those questions! ... View more

A couple issues. If Canvas has allocated 20% to the  Khaki group priorities, where is the other 80 percent allocated? Is that all to internal priorities? More specifically, how much development time is pre-allocated to new ideas that are submitted over the year? I'm sensing from this discussion that it is very little to none. I get it that Canvas can't do everything, but is there really a budget for implementing idea requests (outside of Khaki). The perception in some cases is that the idea get's implemented if it was something Canvas already thought was important or was going to do anyway. (Yes, I've read the full thread here, so you don't have to repeat things that have already been said in the reply.) Bugs/Design Flaws. Honestly this is the "fly in the ointment" for me. I get it that Canvas can't do everything and has to set priorities. I get it that not all feature request can be implemented for various reasons. I do however believe that one of the things that is broken is identifying poor designs or implementation issues and correcting them. I mentioned two in another post (tile color overlay and MGP report generation). Canvas needs to budget for revisions to any new feature to fix things that were not done right the first time based community feedback. There needs to be a separate way for the community to identify and respond to these issues. It frustrates me to no end that whenever I point out a very practical problem with how something designed or implemented that I'm told I have to run the Idea Submission gauntlet. The Bugs/Design Flaw issue I raised previously has not been addressed by the Canvas team here. Here's the link to the post so I don't have to repeat everything here. I'm very interested in the Canvas team's responses to these two items. ... View more

 @kona  wrote: ...why do you think the ideas you find important are the most important and mission critical for everyone using Canvas? They are mine! Of course they are better! HA! - Seriously, that was never my point. Also, I'm in the IT world, so I do understand the development issues as well. ... View more

So your example of the color overlays brings up another big frustration with the process. It seems that too many of the idea requests stem from poor design in the first place. Here are two examples: Color Overlays? Really? Does Canvas not employ a good graphic designer/UX specialist? (If they do they should get a new one!) Who would want to put a nicely designed tile and then have a random color put over the top of it. To me this is NOT a feature request but a design error. We shouldn't have to go through all these hoops to have a poor design decision fixed MGP Grade Export - I can export a single term or ALL terms. Our school uses three different active terms at any given time (Year/Semester/Quarter - depending on the class and grade level). So I have to either run three separate reports (one at a time) or I can run all terms. But all terms means just that - include all years in our Canvas system. There is no option to export active terms or even just current year terms! Why?! And when I asked about it, I was told that I could submit a "Idea" for a feature request!!! I wanted to scream! (which is rather unlike me BTW). Here again, this is an example of a feature that was implemented without thought to how it would really be used. I shouldn't have to go through all the time and effort of a feature request and trying to get votes for something that should have been done right in the first place. Why is it suddenly my responsibility to convince all the other admins that the Canvas developers made a design error that needs to be fixed!?! And then to go through all that work, just to be told - sorry, we don't value that - sucks to be you!  Who is doing ongoing quality control? Who is assessing the feature requests for things that should have been done right in the first place and fixing them because Instructure has the integrity to identify and fix their own mistakes?! The Idea system should be for new big picture features - not bug/design fix requests. Just because Canvas does better than D2L shouldn't be satisfactory. When did D2L become the standard? I appreciate the efforts that Instructure makes to get input from users, but that doesn't mean there isn't still a better standard. I come back to the "triage" concept. It doesn't seem that there is real understanding in this process. ... View more

We are over half way there and have received some great comments in the idea discussion. Thanks to those who have voted for this idea! ... View more

This has been resubmitted and is now open for voting. We appreciate your positive votes. ... View more