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Problem statement: When parents set up their 'observer' account in the Canvas Parent app, they only see announcements that teachers send out after they join. Any announcements sent out before they set...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In the Canvas Parent app, notifications are turned off by default in the settings of the app. This may cause parents to miss course announcements. Proposed solution: Instead of the...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Parents can't see global notifications in the Canvas Parent app. Currently, they can only see course announcements. With most parents using a mobile device to observe their child in...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In a user's access report in a course (https://[domain].instructure.com/courses/[course_id]/users/[user_id]/usage), the icon for discussion boards and announcements is the same, and...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The next and back buttons do not display on the android app for Teachers, the student app is fine. This works on the ios systems. This means that if a teacher using the android app ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: 'Submit for student' is a new feature, since March 2023, that does not exist in the Mobile App. We would like say for a student who hands in homework (for example a drawn poster) in...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It would be INCREDIBLY helpful to have added a slider that shows up when grading using the 'range' feature. Instead of having point scaled rubric, possibly add a slider. The rubric ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the UI design principles of the web and mobile clients of Canvas are very different, with different iconography, fonts, features (like dark mode), design, and even differ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Is there a reason why the button for a student to start an assignment is labeled differently in web vs. mobile? It's "Start Assignment" for web and "Submit Assignment" for mobile. ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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For the mobile app, I’d like to request swipe gestures such as deleting, archiving, or flagging inbox messages, or additional tasks that might be relevant on other pages.     Comments from Instructure...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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People>Groups not available in the phone app. I really could use this feature. Canvas web pages, I find, don't optimize well on mobile browsers, at least not on Droid phones.  On the phone app, there'...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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