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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Problem statement: Some LTI tools do not function if embedded or out in an iframe. Setting the windowTarget parameter to "_blank" in the LTI config launches the LTI tool in anew window/tab for course ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: At the moment an LTI tool can find out the role of a user in Canvas (eg Teacher/Student/TA), or the LTI role that the user has. For lots of LTI tools this is enough, however when a ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When creating an assignment I'm usually linking to an external tool to do this. For a given course, I typically only have one or two external tools that I link to. However, my insti...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When assignments created in Canvas using Google Assignments are not submitted by the due date they are not automatically marked as missing by Canvas. This requires the the teacher t...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Embedding content into the editor through the LTI editor_placement allows tools to integrate their content right into the wiki page and allows instructors to surround the content wi...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: An LTI tool integrated into Canvas can sometimes need to make an API call on behalf of the user. Sometimes OAuth2 integration can be used to prompt the user to authorize the applica...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Many LTI tools seem to be unable to properly determine the section that a student is in based on an LTI launch. There are a number of similar ideas that have already been submitted:...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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