Thanks for the kind words @mjennings ! I enjoyed presenting about UX research and participating in the Unconference conversations. Here are my (mostly) unedited notes from the "Canvas Wish List" session: Explaining the why for feature changes helps Canvas admins and advocates to drive acceptance and engagement. They need a story to tell. (They feel the material they get from Instructure doesn't do this...) Overlap between mastery, outcomes, non-scoring rubrics, etc. What are the differences? Are these features trying to meet the same need? Wish I didn't have to learn the difference if they are similar... Dues dates on peer review, milestone dates within an assignment (first draft due, etc.), multiple due dates... Enable editing in calendar UI. Have a view only default state. People make accidental changes just trying to review it. Accidentally moving on mobile especially. Audit trail for calendar changes (created by, edited by)--because of weird (possibly accidental) changes. Need accountability. Surveys -- truly anonymous (currently a toggle--in Q.Next already?). Set a limit on multiple answer. ("Mark your top three -- votes.") Medical school's desired question types missing. Multiple people report this... Partial credit questions... Branching logic... Campus-wide dates for calendar. (Workaround -- enrolled everyone in a course with those dates associated, as observers. But it can be a messy hack if you're already doing similar things for freshmen, grad students, etc. Lots of bogus "courses" just so you can get a calendar for a group of people.) Transition between semesters -- would be nice to have one place to just change the dates. Everything else is the same... (There's a Canvancement that does this... but it's for power users.) Attendance and role call -- would like to have the same names. Consistency... Also course code vs short name (what we call it). Cross-listing vs joint offering. Variations of combining sections/courses, etc. Institution pulls in all as separate courses rather than sections. But it's hard to merge courses together. Lots of hairy workarounds... Word "cross-listing" is used differently. (We call Canvas cross-listing but really using it as a merge / sections / etc. ) And it has bad side effects. "Cross-listing" elsewhere means something else -- the same classroom experience gives credit differently based on the student (major, grad/undergrad, etc.) Need a "consolidate into sections" function. Teachers aren't automatically in groups, can't see group discussions on mobile.
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