Canvas Ideas

Ideas are submissions from Community users. Instructure reviews these ideas weekly. Relevant ideas are mapped to themes. Community users vote on themes biannually to help prioritize themes.

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I love the Office 365 LTI as a submission type! It works great for my students to receive a copy of the doc, edit directly in Canvas, and submit through Canvas. However, I noticed that restricting the...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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In old quizzes and new_quizzes it appears that Google Doc Files cannot be uploaded for the file upload question in a quiz.  This has also been confirmed in Why can't I select the google doc to upload ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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You cannot currently, from the SCORM page on a course, download the ZIP file you originally uploaded. Every other 'upload / import' from a file place (e.g. Content imports), you can. It would be reall...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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We want the ability to initiate the process for creating multiple payment gateway(s) for Canvas Catalog for sub-catalogs. Currently, only Instructure staff can only activate this process. Most recentl...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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In Google Classroom I can  switch over to the Student Work view and can see their work "in progress."  I see a thumbnail sketch of every students' assignment and can quickly see who is not very far.  ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would be useful that when you create a question [item] bank at the account level being able to upload a huge number of questions once by using a word document. Now, the only way to do this is to cr...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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