Hi,
I've taken some time to make sure my reply doesn't come across as someone who dislikes Canvas. I'm a fan. However, Canvas as a product is always about 60% done. Nothing is complete. Therefore, any "feedback" I give is meaningless:
"You can provide your suggestion to our Product team at any time via our Ideas and Themes space in the Community."
Yes. I could -- but -- I'm not the developer. And if you've been around Canvas for at least a few years then you know that development is extremely slow. Ideas sit undone for years.
But let me not come across as just being goofy or cruel. This is a community and so I'll try to address development. I mean this with all sincerity. There is no reason for anyone to post suggestions if they are told to go somewhere else and post their suggestions. I'll decline as I have for the past few years.
Instead, consider the lack of development in obvious places (regarding how teachers' time is "wasted"):
- Why can I group assignments but there isn't a collapse all / expand all? This feature exists on Modules.
- Why can't I group pages?
- Why can't I group quizzes?
- Why do students see all the assignment groups when nothing is published in those assignment groups?
- Why are there so few question types in New Quizzes? Moodle has dozens more.
- Why can't I embed New Quizzes into a page?
- Why can't I embed an assignment into a page?
- Why can't I embed a set of modules into a page?
- Why are the course landing options limited?
In terms of obvious for New Quizzes:
- Why can't I select all questions in a quiz (build) and have them all moved at once to an item bank or a new item bank?
- Why can't I easily combine or break apart item banks?
- Why can't I create section dividers in the build portion of a quiz?
- Why isn't there a search for all banks?
- Why can't I group item banks?
- Why is print a quiz limited? Why isn't there an option for two column print? Why can't I change the font size?
- Why aren't tags used during the build process? Why can't I simply build by typing the tag and having all those questions appear?
- Why can't I simply type the standard and have all those questions appear during the build process?
- Why do I have to go into the build process to "moderate" a quiz? Make the option in the pull down from the module / quiz page.
- Why do I have to go into the build process for quiz analysis reports? Again -- pull down menu from module and quiz page.
When the obvious is done, then we can talk about cleaning up development in each of the areas. When the obvious is done, then I'd be more than happy to post suggestions on how to improve the product. Until then, I politely decline. I'm not paid to be a consultant. I'm a customer with growing concern that teachers will simply reject Canvas and happily move to Google Classroom because they think it is easier. If I was a consultant, then I'd bluntly state development needs to become a priority; stop dinking around the edges and fix the obvious.