Canvas Prioritized Themes

Prioritized Themes are themes Instructure and the Community have deemed as the highest value themes to deliver. Within each discussion thread, community members can see updates from Product and provide feedback on the solution.

Admin Data Management for Studio

Created: 06-01-2023 Comments: 7 Votes: 163

Theme Overview

Data management capabilities for Administrators will enable them to manage their video content across the entire account.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Account wide video content search
  • Support for storage management
  • Having all the information at one place on any video content
  • Managing leaving or retiring users’ media Library
  • Quickly viewing any user’s content without acting as the user

 

Why was this theme chosen to open for voting?

October 2023 • Administrators need quick and efficient access over video libraries of their faculty and students, so that they can provide better support for their day-to-day needs.

Why was this theme chosen for prioritization?

January 2024 • The selection of this theme is aligned with long-standing needs expressed by Administrators. Equipping them with a holistic view on their media usage and allowing them to manage their storage will help them support Studio at any scale.

 

Improve quiz analysis through robust reporting

Created: 02-05-2023 Comments: 25 Votes: 0

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

 

Why was this theme chosen for prioritization?

January 2024 • In support of this Canvas theme, the Data & Insights team plans to add metrics for New Quizzes pageview & participation usage within Admin Analytics.

 

Why was this theme chosen to open for voting?

April 2023 • Quiz reports are key components to help customers understand outcomes and student performance. Reporting should be responsive, easy to manipulate, downloadable, and include the data necessary to help teachers and administrators make sound decisions on effectiveness and mastery.

Why was this theme chosen for prioritization?

June 2023 • While we will not be able to prioritize all ideas within this theme in the second half of the year, we will focus our efforts on improving the Item and Student Analyses.

 

 

Improved flexibility in Catalog listing management and reporting

Created: 02-05-2023 Comments: 27 Votes: 246

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 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 better synchronization between Canvas and Catalog to keep enrollment data up to data as well as send automated notifications of changes

 

Why was this theme chosen to open for voting?

October 2023 • Catalog plays an important role when it comes to managing course listings and enrollments. We’d like to equip Catalog admins with robust tools that provide not only more flexibility but also better support course listing management.

Why was this theme chosen for prioritization?

January 2024 • The selection of this theme was based on its strong alignment with Catalog's vision and strategic objectives for 2024. We intend to enhance the enrollment process and streamline administrative tasks, aiming to significantly improve user experience and operational efficiency.

 

Why was this theme chosen to open for voting?

April 2023 • Catalog plays an important role when it comes to managing course listings and enrollments. By identifying opportunities to support additional flexibility, we can provide admins with more robust tools to both understand enrollment performance and better support the course listing management lifecycle.

Why was this theme not chosen for prioritization?

June 2023 • While we are investing in improving flexibility in Catalog listing management and reporting via efforts such as our storefront customization (in the roadmap), we will not be able to address the outcome of this theme in its entirety and plan to break down this theme into smaller themes per the feedback we’ve heard. 

 

Automate and Streamline Group Membership

Created: 01-20-2023 Comments: 20 Votes: 344

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

 

Why was this theme chosen to open for voting?

October 2023 • Simplify group enrollment and management in Canvas, to ensure a user-friendly experience for both instructors and students.

Why was this theme chosen for prioritization? 

January 2024 • This theme was selected because it’s strongly aligned with our desire to support large courses and non-traditional use cases. We aim to streamline existing processes and introduce new functionality to save users time.