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Canvas Ideas and Themes

Ideas and Themes is a way for community members and Instructure to identify trends, determine priority, and collaborate on high value solutions. This is a replacement of the previous process known as Idea Conversations.

To learn more about the ideas process, feature development, and how to participate, please read our Ideas and Themes guides

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Themes: Identified

New community-submitted ideas are aligned to applicable Identified Themes. Identified Themes are created and managed by our Product Managers.

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Additional functionality enhancements for Studio

02-06-2023 Referenced Ideas: 18

Theme Overview

Improved Studio Media functionalities and new features

What value could this provide to users?

  • Able to use a Studio Chrome Extension for quick screen/web cam recordings
  • Able to add Vimeo Showcases
  • Able to use both Standard embed and Video Guiz embed tabs
  • Able to change default settings from comments toggled on to downloads
  • Able to add timestamps in the video description field
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Add more options for 'message students who' to gradebook and analytics tools

01-31-2023 Referenced Ideas: 6

Theme Overview

There are currently gaps in the criteria available for targeting messages to students in the "Message students who" functions for gradebook and analytics. Adding more options to these tools will allow messages to get to the correct group of students so that they can respond to a call to action from their instructors. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Message students who is available for more than 1 assignment at a time
  • Ability to send a custom message in new analytics
  • Message students who, Haven't logged in over the past week or haven't viewed the graded content
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Add new functionality for long-term data management

01-31-2023 Referenced Ideas: 2

Theme Overview

Institutions do not have a systematic way to manage old/stale data; certain objects they'd like to have deleted after some period of time so that it doesn't clutter their interface. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Admins can provide a data retention policy for various Canvas objects (ex: users/courses/files)
  • Objects that "expire" can be automatically deleted from the Canvas database
  • Admins have a grace period and UI to review objects that Canvas has slated for future deletion
  • A user that is slated for deletion can see that their user will be deleted; admins can customize the message that the user sees so that the user can notify them if it seems to be a mistake
  • A course that is slated for deletion will show a prominent message stating that it will be deleted on XYZ data; admins can customize this message for the call to action in case someone thinks the course shouldn't be deleted
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Add or improve search functionality

01-31-2023 Referenced Ideas: 17

Theme Overview

Make it easy to quickly find content, and to narrow the results down more effectively to find content.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Find specific things without having to page through or scroll through long collections of content.
  • Apply filters to further narrow search to expedite finding your desired content.
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Allow further detailed information about resources in Canvas Commons

01-31-2023 Referenced Ideas: 2

Theme Overview

Detailed overview and information available for resources 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Able to contact the author of the resource directly with available contact information
  • Able to run a report showing what changes were made to the course
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Automate and Streamline Group Membership

01-20-2023 Referenced Ideas: 12

Theme Overview

Several workflows related to group membership and assignments can result in time-consuming manual work for instructors and cause confusion for students.  

What value could this provide to users?

  • Group membership reflects the current course roster
  • Group membership changes are automatically synced across Canvas
  • Instructors can set more parameters when enabling group self sign-up
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Bring account settings inheritance into parity with feature options and roles or permissions

01-31-2023 Referenced Ideas: 4

Theme Overview

There are many settings that are currently only on or off; we aim to reduce the time it takes to configure settings for sub-accounts and courses by adding a "lock/unlock" or "use default" setting for various settings. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Overhaul the account,sub-account, and courses UI (architecture enablement)
  • Each setting now has an on/off/lock/use default setting (like our permissions)
  • UI is clear which settings have been inherited vs. overridden
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Broaden support in Canvas for competency-based education initiatives

01-31-2023 Referenced Ideas: 12

Theme Overview

A growing number of institutions want additional tools in building their competency/outcomes-based courses.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Canvas Outcomes can be tied to additional content in Canvas
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Build dynamic question types

02-06-2023 Referenced Ideas: 38

Theme Overview

Instructors need question types that are feature rich and flexible

What value could this provide to users?

  • Teachers would be able to apply partial credit to more question Types
  • Teachers would be able to format questions in more question types if RCE was available in more question types and in answers
  • Teachers in STEM classes could ask more complex questions
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Build new or more more robust API endpoints

02-06-2023 Referenced Ideas: 14

Theme Overview

Certain integration or auditing use cases are impossible due to missing API endpoints, or API fields

What value could this provide to users?

  • Too many to list, but generally just making the API more robust so that better integrations can be built, or admins can get data for various audits and investigations
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Display or link or organize related items and users better

02-06-2023 Referenced Ideas: 2

Theme Overview

Enable linking between related items and users, display and organize them more efficiently

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors could be able to link to syllabus in modules in Canvas courses
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Empower teachers and admins better manage notifications and communications capabilities for students

02-06-2023 Referenced Ideas: 7

Theme Overview

Teachers and Admins feel that students are missing important information related to their courses, or are confused my having too many; it's difficult to help students get the right notification configuration for a productive learning experience.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Enable/Disable Notifications for Select Courses and Sub-accounts at Admin Level
  • Student Notifications Automatically Turned On For Crucial Messages and Comments
  • Reduce notification noise by giving teachers the ability to mute notifications for specific activities or timeframes
  • Ability to set default notifications at role/account/sub-account/course level
  • Admins can disable individual users/courses conversation capabilities
  • Entering a description when marking "Notify users that this content has changed"
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Enable Differentiated Learning at Scale

01-20-2023 Referenced Ideas: 28

Theme Overview

Instructors need more flexibility through Canvas’ course-building tools to provide students with differentiated instruction based on their teaching goals and institutional initiatives.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors can differentiate learning journeys and expectations across Canvas based on students’ learning needs
  • Instructors can control access to content across Canvas based on a predetermined set of criteria
  • Students can see content that’s relevant to their personal learning journey
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Enhance assignment rules and functionality

01-31-2023 Referenced Ideas: 44

Theme Overview

Instructors need more options for assignment dates, deadlines, and rules to meet their own teaching goals, improve the student experience, and to comply with institutional policies.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors have more options to encourage quality, on-time submissions, such as adding a "start by" date, making the "available date" more clear, and nudging students to submit
  • Dragging assignments on the Calendar updates the "available until" date and reflects when an assignment should be started
  • Instructors can place limits on assignment submissions, such as the length of the video or the number of files
  • Increased customization for assignment group weights by section
  • More flexible options for assignment rules that can be automatically applied to save time
  • Changes to the user interface that make it easier to parse for instructors and students
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Enhance contributable items to Commons - sorting and filtering and search functionalities in Commons

01-31-2023 Referenced Ideas: 6

Theme Overview

Better organized resources and search capabilities within Commons in order to find relevant content. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors could filter down searches
    Instructors could share all types of content into Commons including rubrics, syllabi etc.
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Expand capabilities in quiz moderation with easier access to information

01-31-2023 Referenced Ideas: 18

Theme Overview

Instructors would like to do more when moderating a quiz and better available information would make it more efficient. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Better filter functionality in moderate
  • Better navigation when moderating student quiz info in moderate
  • Better information on moderate screen - better UI
  • More functionality such as regrading
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Expand Commons resource details and collaboration capabilities

02-06-2023 Referenced Ideas: 4

Theme Overview

Instructors want to see additional metadata about Commons resources as well as additional ways to collaborate with the author and other instructors.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors have the ability to view additional meta data about the resource such as assignment creator and edit history
  • Instructors have a way to collaborate with the course author
  • Instructors have a way to share Commons resource comments with multiple graders"
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Expand flexibility of LTI configuration and visibility

02-06-2023 Referenced Ideas: 6

Theme Overview

Admins spend a lot of time configuring LTI tools and are limited in their ability to set up, view, and customize them, often resulting in time spent removing and reinstalling.

What value could this provide to users?

  • More UI options to configure or modify LTI tool configurations
  • Greater flexibility in LTI tool configuration; specifically around tool visibility and access
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Expand options for quiz formats

02-05-2023 Referenced Ideas: 7

Theme Overview

Teachers want more ways to use quizzes beyond the traditional format

What value could this provide to users?

  • Teachers can use quizzes in more innovative ways to enable team-based learning or dynamic quiz branching
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Expand quiz settings for greater customization

02-05-2023 Referenced Ideas: 31

Theme Overview

Teachers need better ways to make point adjustments and better prompts to remind them of the differentiation between assignment points and question points. Teachers need specialized settings for subsets of students with special requirements.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Quiz settings make it possible to control when a student sees their results and what they can see
  • A Practice quiz would not count as an assignment
  • Quiz setting to allow subsequent quiz attempts to build on the last attempt only with questions that were incorrect
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Expand support for student-driven learning in Canvas

01-31-2023 Referenced Ideas: 12

Theme Overview

Instructors want additional controls to encourage student-led, self-paced learning in their courses.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Rubrics are more accessible for students and students can act as their own peer reviewer
  • Instructors have more control over how a student progresses through a course (e.g. the To Do List can be disabled to encourage students to follow the appropriate path)
  • Instructors are able to create student pathways via module requirements based on student choice and other differentiating factors
  • Students have additional tools that encourage progression and course completion (e.g. a checklist for staying organized)
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Facilitate better navigation and access to quiz actions

02-05-2023 Referenced Ideas: 13

Theme Overview

Teachers need to be able to execute actions from easily accessible locations and navigate between related screens easily

What value could this provide to users?

  • Better Navigation between quiz settings and other settings
  • Consistent experience with Assignments, Module, and Quiz pages
  • Better organization for quizzes
  • More useful actions under the kebab menus on each page
  • Index pages showing more relevant information for items
  • Add functionality that allows a user to export a New Quiz
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Facilitate timely feedback for students

01-31-2023 Referenced Ideas: 14

Theme Overview

Instructors want additional functionality to enable timely/real-time feedback for their students.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors can view student work while in progress, allowing for immediate feedback
  • Discussion posts can be annotated in Docviewer
  • Instructors see student assignment comments in their To Do List stream
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File Management Functionality and Experience

01-20-2023 Referenced Ideas: 9

Theme Overview

Finer grained controls on file visibility, improved download capabilities, and overall UX for file management. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Able to customize defaults for file behavior (preview, pop-out)
  • Able to download files, batch download of student work, customize filenames (auto-populate course/assignment)
  • Able to customize download / export file outputs (eg 1 assignment vs all of them)
  • Able to easily search files and view enclosing/containing folder
  • Able to customize file visibility (i.e. date/time, which sections, courses, etc)
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Fine-tune accessibility in Canvas and Canvas Studio

01-31-2023 Referenced Ideas: 10

Theme Overview

Admins and instructors want to reduce the time they spend making their Canvas content accessible.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Videos uploaded by students and instructors using the media recorder are auto-captioned
  • Instructors can add default alt-text to uploaded images that is used everywhere the image appears
  • Instructors have an improved workflow for editing captions in Canvas Studio
  • Closed-captioning for videos originally captioned in YouTube can be carried over to Canvas Studio
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Improve ability for tool developers to use same functionality between Canvas and other LTI Platforms

Friday Referenced Ideas: 1

Theme Overview

Tools can’t afford to write separate integrations for every platform and every difference between our platform and others increases the cost to tool providers to serve our customers. This includes work to follow LTI specifications as well as other development standards.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Reducing integration costs by increasing uniformity makes more tools available in our ecosystem so that customers can leverage more tools to improve learning.
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Improve calendar scheduling and syncing options

01-31-2023 Referenced Ideas: 27

Theme Overview

Administrators and instructors need additional options for efficient scheduling and syncing of events in course and account level calendars. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Users have more control over scheduled events, allowing them to do things such as edit or lock appointments, block times, or assign times to specific students or groups
  • Users are able to more efficiently create calendar events, with capabilities to create multi-day events and recurring appointment slots
  • Admins are able to automatically add account level calendars for select users
  • Users are able to save time by adding events to multiple calendars at one time
  • Users are able to import events and sync events across calendars
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Improve cross-student collaboration and communication

02-05-2023 Referenced Ideas: 12

Theme Overview

Students need more notification and information to submit peer reviews. Instructors want to use peer reviews in calculating grades. Students need better resources to make use of group homepages or templates for planning

What value could this provide to users?

  • Peer Reviews are more valuable when they can be used for grading
  • Peer Evaluations for team members on group projects
  • Peer Reviews are easier with a better-designed UI that shows rubrics and other reference information on the screen
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Improved customization and management of sub-accounts

02-05-2023 Referenced Ideas: 8

Theme Overview

Sub-accounts often need different settings, permissions, themes, and feature options. This theme focuses on expanding the customizations that are available for sub-accounts.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Expanding root-level account settings to be available at the sub-account level
  • Ability to copy permissions sets between sub-accounts
  • Better sub-account theme controls
  • Better feature option customization
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Improved flexibility in Catalog listing management and reporting

02-05-2023 Referenced Ideas: 45
 
 

Theme Overview

Improved customization and flexibility enhanced reporting and analytics, and more granular permissions and controls for course listing and enrollment management

What value could this provide to users?

  • Admins have more flexibility in listing management to more easily order, duplicate, and correct listing details and catalogs as well as hide currency values for non-charged courses.
  • Admins can restrict Catalog courses after 'days to complete' have expired
  • Admins need better communication when there are changes in course enrollment (e.g. drop, reached cap, etc)
  • Admins want more reporting flexibility to understand performance based on time period, financial refunds based on enrollment changes, and a way to export listing reports
  • Catalog Analytics needs more flexibility in administrative management to add / edit Able to add/edit email addresses
  •  Admins want the ability to add metadata to course listings such as the start and end date year,
  • Admins want flexibility in managing student enrollments through better tools to manually add, edit, correct, and remove enrollments
  • Admins want more granular permissions to manage and restrict enrollments and registrations and their associated metadata on a subcatalog level
  • Admins want a simplified user experience for Catalog mobile that reduces redundant and time-consuming tasks
  • Admins want enhanced automation to update listing titles and paths based on changes to Canvas course names and codes, enable automated notifications to users, and auto-enroll participants into programs.
  • Automated notifications to inform end users and admins of changes to listings and enrollments
  • Admins want flexibility in supporting promotional codes to support multiple listings and gifts as well as notifications when new promotions are created.
  • Admins want more permissions to initiate the process of creating multiple subcatalog payment gateways
  • Admins want flexibility in Certificate of Completion development including the ability to use RCE, design multiple Certificates of Completion at a sub-catalog or catalog level at the root level as well as restrict editing.
  • Admins want more waitlist flexibility in order set a custom time frame for waitlisted learners to claim an open spot and to be able to accept waitlist spots and continue to payment
  • Admins want additional customization tools to manage catalog headers, colors, and fonts
  • Admins want better synchronization between Canvas and Catalog to keep enrollment data up to data as well as send automated notifications of changes
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Improved functionality for course announcements

02-05-2023 Referenced Ideas: 12

Theme Overview

Instructors want additional functionality to better control content included in and user visibility of course announcement

What value could this provide to users?

  • Provide functionality to publish and unpublish announcements just as you can other course content
  • Provide additional functionality to archive and sort or filter announcements
  • Allow instructors to bulk manage course announcements
  • Provide more granular viewing of announcement by adding start and end times for visibility
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Improved gradebook access and control settings

02-05-2023 Referenced Ideas: 7

Theme Overview

Between permissions, assignment settings, and gradebook settings, there still is not enough flexibility to give the correct level of access and control to certain individuals.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Separate various permissions and/or assignment/gradebook settings for further control of read/write/edit access
  • Control over who can edit or post grades and when
  • Allow for grading activity without allowing full gradebook access
  • Increased anonymity for rubrics/outcomes and other grading features
  • Provide additional controls over grading policies
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Improved language and localization experience

02-05-2023 Referenced Ideas: 12

Theme Overview

Canvas is tricky to configure and support for multi-lingual settings and could always have more languages.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Admins can better troubleshoot issues outside of their native language by quickly switching their personal display language for a specific course
  • Eliminate quiz answer matching errors due to languages/localization
  • Better support for multi-lingual learning environments
  • Support for more languages
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Improve Download and Printing Options for Graded Work

01-20-2023 Referenced Ideas: 22

Theme Overview

Instructors and students need more downloading and printing flexibility to facilitate additional analysis, feedback review, and record-keeping.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors can download Rubrics to facilitate in-class instruction
  • Instructors and students can download submissions with all comments and feedback included
  • Instructors have more flexibility and download options for assignment submissions and gradebook
  • Instructors and students can download discussions for further analysis
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Improved rubric creation and usability

02-05-2023 Referenced Ideas: 13

Theme Overview

Rubrics are a powerful tool for helping students understand expectations and better ensure that scoring is accurate, unbiased, and consistent. Improving the creation workflow and usability will save instructors time and enhance student outcomes.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Provide additional editing capabilities that save the instructor time in creating and updating rubrics.
  • Simplify the management and workflow for connecting and disconnecting from artifacts.
  • Improved interface, default settings, and formatting options.
  • Added flexibility in viewing preferences.
  • Export capabilities
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Improved student view functionality

02-05-2023 Referenced Ideas: 8

Theme Overview

Create a more true simulation of student experience by being able to support all relevant student use cases

What value could this provide to users?

  • Student preview tool will support:
    • Ability to view all modules and artifacts regardless of being published
    • View all assignments without having to remove pre-requisites or fulfill specific requirements
    • View external tool functionality (eg lockdown broswer, LTI tools)
    • View only option for specific student in order to troubleshoot individual issues based on current progress
    • Expand test student capabilities to test differentiation
    • Toggle to view mobile option (simulate app) when using preview
    • Create observer view similar to student view
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Improved UI Controls and Usability - Added or clearer alerts and confirmations and notifications

01-30-2023 Referenced Ideas: 56

Theme Overview

Make critical modal information like alerts and confirmations clear and obvious.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Eliminate the risk of missing key information, and be more aware when taking critical actions
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Improved UI Controls and Usability - Added or clearer CTAs and functionality

01-30-2023 Referenced Ideas: 81

Theme Overview

Make the product easier to use by adding or making more clear calls-to-action, functionality triggers 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Easier to get to your desired actions or functionality
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Improved UI Controls and Usability - Added or clearer navigation and links

01-30-2023 Referenced Ideas: 33

Theme Overview

Make navigating the product easier by adding navigation / links, or making it clearer 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Make steps faster by eliminating steps and making it easier to get to the next step
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Improved UI Controls and Usability - Additional filtering and view options

01-30-2023 Referenced Ideas: 108

Theme Overview

Improve usability by creating new, adding the ability to filter when there is a lot of information

What value could this provide to users?

  • Easier to select your desired items, especially when navigating large information sets
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Improved UI Controls and Usability - Cleaner or fresher color and visual presentation

01-30-2023 Referenced Ideas: 48

Theme Overview

Create a more contemporary product by improving the visual stylings that encourage learners.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Inspire learners with a product that feels contemporary with the tools they use frequently
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Improved UI Controls and Usability - Clearer text and instructions

01-30-2023 Referenced Ideas: 15

Theme Overview

Simplify text and instructions to make them more intuitive.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Easily understand what's being communicated, and what needs to be done
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Improve engagement and awareness by adding new notifications

02-05-2023 Referenced Ideas: 8

Theme Overview

Users have identified a suite of notifications that they wish they could receive.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Notification of pending profile pictures for Admins
  • Notification of error in Grade Passback Sync
  • Missing assignment email message or notification to student
  • Discussion Notification: Activity that involves you
  • Automatic Notification for changes in course enrollment status
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Improve Gradebook settings options

02-05-2023 Referenced Ideas: 40

Theme Overview

Instructors want more options in Gradebook settings to grade more efficiently and optimize their workflows.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors can remove assignments that don't count toward final grades from the Gradebook and student grade page
  • Instructors can set a "grade release date" and other grade policies at the assignment level
  • Instructors can customize Gradebook Status (Missing, Late, Excused, etc.)
  • Allow option to have the "missing" label only apply to required assignments
  • Instructors can cap grades on additional assignment attempts
  • Save instructors additional time by scaling scores automatically and calculating a class average
  • The "hide grades" functionality is improved so it's clearer when grades are hidden
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Improve grading experience with expanded regrading options

01-31-2023 Referenced Ideas: 5

Theme Overview

Instructors need the flexibility to regrade when necessary. Instructors need grading to be efficient.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Better options regrading - manually graded questions and questions linked to a banks
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Improve Observer Experience

01-31-2023 Referenced Ideas: 9

Theme Overview

Streamline the ability for observers to log-in, and see only the relevant information, and see it easily.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Easily get to the information about the student they are observing, without having access to anything they shouldn't, however, the course is configured
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Improve Program Assessment functionality

02-24-2023 Referenced Ideas: 1

Theme Overview

Improvements to measure learning program effectiveness

What value could this provide to users?

  • Enable admins and instructors to have more control over reviewers and review strategies of the artifacts
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Improve quiz analysis through robust reporting

02-05-2023 Referenced Ideas: 17

Theme Overview

Teachers need reports that are easy to manipulate, full of useful information, and efficient to access

What value could this provide to users?

  • Quicker responses when accessing quiz and item analysis reports
  • Item Analysis, Student Analysis, and Outcomes reporting would be easy to download and in a format that is easy to manipulate
  • More information would be available in reports to help track progress or gaps
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Improve syncing across shared courses and Canvas content items

01-31-2023 Referenced Ideas: 5

Theme Overview

Instructors want smarter syncing across different parts of Canvas, including Canvas Commons, to save time and reduce inconsistencies in content. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • When updating a previously imported course via Canvas Commons, only the parts of the course that have been updated copy to the new course
  • Links don’t break/get removed when sharing content to Canvas Commons
  • When instructors update or change the name of Canvas content items, that change is synced across Canvas
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Improve the inbox functionality to provide for more meaningful communication

02-05-2023 Referenced Ideas: 13

Theme Overview

Instructors want additional inbox functionality and settings to customize messaging among course participants.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Provide functionality that is similar to what users would expect to see in email tools, such as signatures, RCE, scheduling of messages, auto-reply, and trash folder
  • Update the interface to allow for easy access to common actions, such as archive and delete
  • Provide additional clarity around recipients, such as showing custom section names and which student an observer is connected to
  • Allow for messaging of multiple classes at one time
  • Provide better default controls and actions
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Improve the user experience with discussions to provide for more meaningful discourse among course participants

02-05-2023 Referenced Ideas: 39

Theme Overview

Improved interactions and flexibility in settings for discussions encourages deeper discourse, leading to more meaningful exchanges and opportunities to learn with and from other class participants.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Provide for more flexibility in viewing preferences
  • Update workflows to be more efficient and limit clicks
  • Improve the interface to include clear calls to action and improved usability
  • Improve student interaction and timelines for participation through added capability of multiple due dates or checkpoints
  • Improved grading and feedback workflows
  • Additional reporting options to understand user activity and edit history
  • More granular settings and role permissions within discussions
  • Better default controls and actions
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Increase options for restricting student results view in quizzes

02-04-2023 Referenced Ideas: 3

Theme Overview

Teachers have a variety of scenarios in which they want students to be able to view their results or previous submissions

What value could this provide to users?

  • Teachers have better control of when and what results are available to students
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Increase parity between mobile and web versions of Canvas

02-04-2023 Referenced Ideas: 20

Theme Overview

There are certain desirable features in the web version of Canvas that people want on the Mobile Apps.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Do more things on mobile that can currently only be done on the web.
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Increase search functionality and flexibility of questions in Item Banks

01-20-2023 Referenced Ideas: 16

Theme Overview

Instructors need to search, group, and add questions from item banks in different ways. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Refine a search by using a filter in the item bank then generate a random number of questions so that I can define a subset of questions that can all be used, randomized, or specify a set # of questions that can be randomized.
  • Use key word search to easily locate a question in a large list
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Increase student visibility into course expectations

01-30-2023 Referenced Ideas: 17

Theme Overview

Students need more insight into assignments and grading expectations to reduce confusion and increase success. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors can add hyperlinks to Rubrics and link students to individual Rubrics
  • Students can access an answer or solution key upon assignment submission
  • Admins/instructors can choose to show only the Learning Mastery Gradebook for individual courses
  • Students and instructors can view original annotations in Speedgrader when an assignment is resubmitted
  • Students can easily navigate the group assignment view
  • Default status for "calculate based on graded assignments" for individual student grades view is unchecked
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Learner Records, Achievements, Recognition

01-30-2023 Referenced Ideas: 2

Theme Overview

Increased property options and editing functionalities, frequent learner progress updates 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Able to have a multi select property type in custom badge properties, so that I can select more than one from the predefined property options.
  • Able to re-order custom metadata fields as part of the editing functionality, so that I can re-arrange these fields even after submission.
  • Able to see a larger image of the badge on the description page, so that I can differentiate between institutional brand and credential level.
  • Able to change between automatic and manual awarding of a badge, so that I can have greater control and less issues that comes with deleting and recreating.
  • Able to receive badge awards right away once progress has been made, so that I can be sure I did everything well.
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Make account configuration and management more efficient through better default settings and controls for Admins

02-04-2023 Referenced Ideas: 9

Theme Overview

There are certain areas of Canvas where the lack of default controls makes management of various objects impossible or inefficient. By adding new default behaviors and controls, we can simplify the admin experience and reduce repetitive efforts.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Ability to Reorder Pronoun Options so that users can select them more efficiently
  • Add SIS IDs to default sections as part of course creation so that they can be managed with the change_sis_id.csv
  • Ability for Admin to set Student/Teacher/TA/Designers Term End dates to "whenever" so that teachers can have access indefinitely after the term ends
  • Ability to create Account Roles at the root-level without making them available at the sub-account level so that roles intended for the primary account don't clutter the sub-accounts
  • If empty course end date, then automatically use term end date so that the list of active courses is more manageable and accurate
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Make account configuration more flexible through new account settings

01-30-2023 Referenced Ideas: 23

Theme Overview

Adding new account settings allows admins to control the features available to users and/or courses.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Control over allowed file types at the account-level
  • Require videos to be captioned when uploaded by teachers
  • Set Grade posting policy at Account and Subaccount level
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Make grading more efficient and effective

01-30-2023 Referenced Ideas: 20

Theme Overview

Instructors want to spend less time grading. Instructors want easier ways to make adjustments to settings while grading.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Grade by Question makes grading more efficient by focusing on one question across all students
  • A more efficient way to adjust assignment points and question points
  • Better use of rubrics or grade schemes
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Make the mobile app UI and UX experience better by adding new or reorganizing and improving existing features

02-04-2023 Referenced Ideas: 11

Theme Overview

There are certain UI/UX difficulties that can make the mobile apps difficult to use.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Reduced effort to perform specific tasks on the mobile apps.
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Organize and manage data more efficiently

01-30-2023 Referenced Ideas: 5

Theme Overview

Greater and easier data organization and management, more user control over certain data.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Able to filter reports by content type in New Analytics
  • Able to see the difference between masquerading as a user and real student usage data in access reports
  • Able to bulk-select assignments
  • Able to completely hide some members in a course
  • Able to eliminate "inactive" students from the Leaderboard in the new version of Badger LTI
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Provide improved Studio quiz functionalities

01-30-2023 Referenced Ideas: 11

Theme Overview

Expanded quiz creation and editing functionalities, more flexibility for user controls, improved feedback mechanism, and always available usage insights.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Able to rewatch Studio quizzes without retaking a quiz, so I don't need to take the quiz every time I want to watch only the video.
  • Able to edit quizzes and auto-update grades accordingly after students have taken the quiz so that I don't need to recreate the whole quiz because of a mistake.
  • Able to use a rich content editor and open-ended questions in Studio quizzes, so that I have flexibility while writing questions and comments.
  • Able to receive immediate feedback on the question that I answered in Studio quiz so that I don't need to wait to find out if my answer was correct until all the questions were asked.
  • Able to add more levels of replying in Studio Quizzes, so I can help promote discussions.
  • Able to access insights in all kinds of Studio videos, so that I can always know how viewers interact with and view my media.
  • Able to prevent students fast forwarding studio quiz videos the first time they are seeing it so that I can make sure they watch the video at least once before answering any questions
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Provide more control over notifications and communications preferences

01-30-2023 Referenced Ideas: 12

Theme Overview

Out of band communication between admins, teachers, and students is limited due to gaps in messaging or notifications functionality. By improving controls for notifications and communications, we can provide a more streamlined communication and notifications experience.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Ability to brand Canvas notifications
  • Allow admins to be contacted directly or CCd in messages
  • Improve automatic notification to include more descriptive course information in the subject
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Provide more course-level controls to govern student behavior

01-30-2023 Referenced Ideas: 8

Theme Overview

Instructors want to exercise more control over student permissions to help facilitate positive course collaboration and prevent unwanted content from being viewed.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors have the option to moderate discussions, preventing students from seeing inappropriate content
  • Close existing loopholes for attaching documents to discussions, even when prohibited in Course Settings
  • Add additional controls over student ability to Conferences and Collaborations in Course Settings
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Provide more flexible grading options

02-04-2023 Referenced Ideas: 50

Theme Overview

Instructors need more flexible grading options to comply with institutional or personal policies and preferences.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors can apply additional exceptions and customizations to the late policy and assignment groups
  • Rubrics can be more easily formatted and support percentages in addition to fixed points
  • Admins/instructors can choose to use letter grade only or other grading schemes without points
  • Instructors have additional display, edit, create options in the Gradebook
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Provide More Granularity for Permissions Configuration

01-20-2023 Referenced Ideas: 24

Theme Overview

There is a need to either split existing permissions, or add new ones, so that admins can create roles that can do their jobs without extraneous permissions. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Moderate discussions is split into separate permissions for add/edit/delete
  • Calendar event management is split into add/edit/delete permissions instead of 1
  • Make student view its own permission
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Provide more options to provide quiz feedback to students

02-04-2023 Referenced Ideas: 11

Theme Overview

Teachers need better options for providing feedback to students depending on question type and at different points during a quiz.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Better feedback options help to advance student learning by helping students understand what they got right or wrong
  • Continuing education courses with requirements that students receive feedback for each answer choice
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Provide More Printing Options in Canvas

01-20-2023 Referenced Ideas: 6

Theme Overview

Instructors want to print specific content within Canvas to facilitate in-class instruction, save for their records, or to meet accreditation requirements.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors can download and print a printer-friendly version of the Syllabus and People page
  • Communication between instructors and students can be downloaded and printed
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Provide students with useful quiz information at quiz time

02-04-2023 Referenced Ideas: 7

Theme Overview

Students need to know all the details about the quizzes they are about to take and about each attempt they make. Students need to have the right information while they are taking the quiz

What value could this provide to users?

  • Quiz metadata is important for students to know what is expected when they open the quiz and confirm information once it is submitted.
  • Timers and warnings will help students keep within the limits of quiz-taking.
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Reduce friction for large courses with multiple instructors

01-30-2023 Referenced Ideas: 12

Theme Overview

Team-teaching large courses can require time-consuming coordination when evaluating students.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors can be tied to specific assignments, eliminating unnecessary notifications for other instructors upon assignment submission
  • More than one instructor can grade submissions in Speedgrader simultaneously, accurately syncing the most recent information for a submission
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Save Admins Time and Clicks

01-20-2023 Referenced Ideas: 14

Theme Overview

Simplify admin tasks with basic functionality enhancements 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Central place exists for all users to access, launch access to all tools licensed by an institution.
  • Able to easily access a newly created course to enable next actions
  • Able to see Syllabus page version history and revert to prior versions
  • Enable workflow for (optional) automated Creds badge assignment at course completion, also API access to badging
  • Portfolium specific: provisioning cleanup -- automated access, rostering; adding faculty access without explicit admin invitation

 

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Simplify bulk course tasks

01-30-2023 Referenced Ideas: 23

Theme Overview

Performing bulk course tasks can be repetitive, time-consuming, and error-prone. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Admins and instructors can share content and announcements to multiple courses at the same time
  • Blueprints are refined, cleaning up the copy and delete workflows to make them easier to use
  • Add bulk delete, select, edit functionality where possible (e.g. batch edit for assignment due dates)
  • Admins and instructors have more granular control over what is copied/imported when copying/importing content in a course, reducing clean up in the destination course
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Streamline data audits through better reporting and admin tools

02-03-2023 Referenced Ideas: 27

Theme Overview

There are certain times that specific data needs to be pulled out of Canvas for investigative purposes or to isolate specifc objects that need attention. These efforts will expand functionality of account reports, analytics, admin tools, gradebook exports, and page views to address specific common use cases.

What value could this provide to users?

  • New columns in existing Account Reports
  • New account level reports
  • Custom reporting framework (if possible, in New Analytics)
  • More data available in Page Views
  • More data available about users and how enrollments were created
  • Expanded Admin Tools functionality
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Support version management for course content

01-30-2023 Referenced Ideas: 7

Theme Overview 

Instructors want more versioning in Canvas so they can have greater visibility into feedback given if content changes, as well as revert to previous versions if needed.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors can see previous assignment version history and revert to prior versions
  • Rubrics are versioned so that admins and instructors can tie feedback given to specific versions of the Rubric
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Sync user data across all flows

02-03-2023 Referenced Ideas: 4

Theme Overview

Improved data will improve user experience, and eliminate confusion

What value could this provide to users?

  • Single, shared identity between Canvas and Commons to eliminate sync/user assigning errors (similar but not same user)
  • Include SIS ID in more reports, such as those in New Analytics and Attendance/Roll Call
  • Display custom role names consistently to eliminate user confusion
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Technical Functionality

02-03-2023 Referenced Ideas: 20

Theme Overview

Specialized requests for file types support, white space handling, environment variables, element handling for page load speed.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Able to support unique use cases for specialized uses of our products, such as:
  • Support environmental variables for LTI 1.3
  • Change the name of the downloaded folders
  • Adjust decimal separators in grade exports based on user settings
  • Modify the sizes of the image files they upload
  • Update page titles in the browser window to be the course nickname
  • Fix issues with the Office 365 LTI submission types
  • Support .fig and webp file types
  • Sanitizing all title inputs on submissions
  • Enable comment out tags in HTML editor
  • Allow assignment and module pages to load faster
  • Let users hide grading tabs
  • Improve link validator tool
  • Decrease load time for custom CSS/JS font types in Canvas themes
  • Make the "Use semicolons to separate fields in compatible spreadsheet exports" setting apply to the import groups functionality
  • Keep the original name of the uploaded files and enable Google doc file uploads in NQ questions
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Tools and functionality to help instructors or designers build engaging courses

01-29-2023 Referenced Ideas: 12
 

Theme Overview

Enable templates, customizations, support new content types to create engaging courseware

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructional designer:
    • Able to use a SCORM as a plug-in in the RCE toolbar and add it as an assignment in all the courses
    • Able to use image editing options and add responsive images to the RCE
    • Able to choose from pre-templated content themes in the RCE
    • Able to add an option to set the border collapse tag to collapsed or separate in border properties, so users can make use of cellspacing without needing to edit HTML codes.
    • Able to use a native course evaluation tool in Canvas
    • Able to export a text version of a course outline in Modules
    • Able to set a front page for every module as a dynamic home page
    • Able to add internal prerequisites within modules based on completion of all the activities under headers
    • Able to add pre-designed native HTML elements in the RCE that can be readily slotted into pages
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UI Controls and Usability - Clear and Actionable Error Messages

01-20-2023 Referenced Ideas: 12

Theme Overview

Clear indication of what the error is and what steps the user can take to correct the input

What value could this provide to users?

  • Error message only displays when there is truly an error that blocks the user going forward
  • Error message includes clear description of what the error is/ what input is causing the error
  • Error message includes recommended user actions to fix the incorrect input
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UI Controls and Usability - Loading Message

01-20-2023 Referenced Ideas: 2

Theme Overview

Error message only displays when there is truly an error that blocks the user going forward Error message includes clear description of what the error is/ what input is causing the error Error message includes recommended user actions to fix the incorrect input

Clear indication of when a page is still loading (a function is still processing - e.g. listing courses, completing a search, etc.) so the user knows not to navigate away from the page and that it is not an error.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Visual indication of page loading (and ideally, a progress bar)
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