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How about having that Favorites list actually match what is on our Dashboard? Right now I have only 3 courses favorited - they have gold stars and are showing on my Dashboard, but 12 courses from a variety of semesters show up on that 'Favorites' list in Canvas messaging. some of them are so old I can't bring them to the Dashboard anymore to change the nickname anyway.    This- is a frustrating problem that affects many faculty at my institution - Please help ... View more

Yes, Please! This would be helpful, as would the ability to take favorites off of this list. I have only 3 courses on my dashboard but 12 courses are on the Favorites list when I go to compose a message to students ... View more

I am afraid that Canvas has confused two issues. This feature request was made in hopes of solving a very frustrating issue that students have when embedding images while using a desktop or laptop. Not a phone. We are a design school and probably 80% of the images students share are generated by them digitally on their PCs. In addition, the issue which Canvas has addressed in the app was actually a problem created in their last major app update where students no longer had access to their Camera, so they couldn’t share any kind images at all through the app. While I’m glad that Canvas addressed this, it has nothing to do with what we have been begging for in THIS feature request. Please reconsider closing this request, it has absolutely not been completed. Sent from my iPhone Freya Van Saun Coordinator of Online and Blended Learning New York School of Interior Design 170 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021 646-935-5471 ... View more

I agree with Kenny, this idea is not completed if it is only available for the mobile app (where one was always able to upload screen shots saved in your photos directly to the discussions). The discussion threads are actually pretty much un-view-able on a phone when they have more than just a few images embedded in them because of the processing power of a phone. I actually tell students only to use the app for discussions if they are using their phone to record a video clip, otherwise they should not bother as almost all of our discussions include sharing images.  Clearly the request for this functionality was based on a need students have when using Canvas on the full desktop version, not for students using the app. Please do not list this as completed when it has not in fact been. PS. The complications/struggles students have with embedding images is the most frequent topic for complaints received on technology surveys at our institution, regrading Canvas. That the problem is still not solved is really disturbing. ... View more

Thank you Scott! I’m so glad to hear this, I won’t pass the info on to my faculty until it is in beta to avoid the “are we there yet?” syndrome, but I’m really pleased to know it’s coming. Sent from my iPhone Freya Van Saun Coordinator of Online and Blended Learning New York School of Interior Design 170 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021 646-935-5471 ... View more

Hi Scott, Thank you you for letting us know! Do you think that we may be hearing about their launch in July at InstructureCon? I can already hear the chorus of relieved sighs rippling through my classrooms and faculty lounge. Looking very forward to being able to announce these changes when they happen. ... View more

I agree completely, there are a handful of issues I have with Canvas that can be taken care of through expensive third party integrations, that really seem to be functions that just should be in the Canvas package. The embedding of images in discussion posts and the ability to record the screen and voice in Speedgrader (why my students would want  to be looking at me while I described what went wrong in their paper is beyond me), are my top two. Neither of them is "new technology", why is it taking so long? If we have to subscribe to additional services in order to create the "ease of use" that one finds on other digital platforms, in Canvas, they are leaving the door open for institutions to switch LMS's when one comes along that integrates all of this without needing additional subscriptions. We are always in a budget crunch, and I am always weighing faculty & student needs with costs. ... View more

We are a small design school and for us this would be such an important tool for giving feedback on any kind of design project! Currently our instructors in design courses have to use third party tools (Jing etc), trying to support that is problematic for me, and using them to make comments on 20-40 drawings a week can be maddening for faculty (all the switching back and forth as well as copying and pasting). I have been looking at products that do screen capture and integrate with Canvas, but they seem to only be able link into the rich content editor tool bar, not the speedgrader. So, even for a price we can't have this, sadly. Certainly hope this is introduced soon. ... View more

Hi, I would like to add my voice to the conversation because I am really surprised that after two years this has still not been addressed. We are a design school, so sharing images is central to almost all of our courses. While I have created "Embedding Images in Discussions" PDF's and a video, which I distribute to courses where I know faculty are using the Discussion feature, in general faculty are under the impression that students are able to do things the same way they can, so I often get contacted by students or faculty that are completely frustrated or bewildered by the fact that faculty have had no success in guiding their students in embedding an image. When I explain the two step process for students I get complaints, and push back. We live in a drag and drop world, even the upload process is taxing these days, so two steps becomes tiresome very quickly. Is there any update on the progress with this idea? Best, Freya ... View more

Not having this feature is the one reason that I cannot move my exams from our old, and really hard to navigate, LMS to Canvas. Every semester at least %5 of our students are unable to complete their exams due to some technical problem. I do not feel comfortable with penalizing them with a complete retake of a 1-2 hour exam, especially in the case where questions have been randomized, and there are no options available for saving instances of submitted exams, while offering an additional new exam (which even our old clunky LMS can do). This feature suggestion, or even an archive feature, would make a great deal of difference for us, and allow us to leave our old LMS. I am really disappointed to hear that it won't even be considered for more than 6 months. That will mean a whole more year in contract with our previous LMS provider. ... View more