This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas I want the ability to paste images directly into Canvas from the clipboard. An example: I want to use Windows Snipping tool (or any other screens...

Thank you Gideon! I agree that is frustrating. To tell you the truth I have largely stopped voting and submitting ideas because of the lack of execution. 

 @James ​Thank you! I am new to this community, and appreciate the discussion, I edited my post above to remove the reference to downvoting.

 @James - I wrote my reply above before I saw your updates and this post. I think the issue of creating clutter in the Canvas "files" could be solved pretty easily by putting the pasted image files in...

stefaniesanders- Although I disagree that it would necessarily degrade students' experience, I would ask that you reconsider your vote to allow the developers and engineers to explore the feature and ...

Thank you Gideon! I agree that is frustrating. To tell you the truth I have largely stopped voting and submitting ideas because of the lack of execution. 

 @James ​Thank you! I am new to this community, and appreciate the discussion, I edited my post above to remove the reference to downvoting.

 @James - I wrote my reply above before I saw your updates and this post. I think the issue of creating clutter in the Canvas "files" could be solved pretty easily by putting the pasted image files in...

stefaniesanders- Although I disagree that it would necessarily degrade students' experience, I would ask that you reconsider your vote to allow the developers and engineers to explore the feature and ...

James -I'd like to address some of your concerns. First, although the image size can be about 33% larger when stored as data URI, gzip mitigates most of that, resulting in an image about 1-2% larger.I...