Canvas

Being a means of giving feedback and points to assignments[.]

Being [the] main hub for students where they can find all their stuff for school (assignments, points, slides, feedback)

[Assignments] are dated and the agenda gives a quick daily/weekly/monthly overview for the deadlines across all courses[.]

It has Zoom integration and can be used to schedule and store them[.]

It has [its] own video [platforms] like Microsoft Teams and Zoom, but it isn't that great (it doesn't like being used on Firefox for example). It has disconnection issues and the mic and camera sometimes [have] issues[.]

When looking at points in the [assignment] overviews it only shows the total amount of points on the [assignment] but it doesn't show the given amount, you have to go to the [assignment] page to see these points[.]

When an announcement is posted it takes a bit too many clicks to get there. The amount of announcements doesn't always update right. I could have already read an announcement but Canvas will still show it as being unread until I go to the page again.

Hardly no bugs or problems[.]

Easy navigation on desktop[.]

Clean design[.]

The navigation is very easy and clear[.]

Many possibility's to implement third party features[.]

Great design[.]

User experience

Organization and ability to create a course

I love the modules function

It's compatibility with Banner

The speed grader could be improved

Extra credit assignment feature would be nice

Provides internal communication

Course assignment, and you can know your degree

Zoom integration and can be used to schedule and store them

The speed grader could be improved.

[It] streamlined the setup process.

Serves as online gradebook

Helps students keep track of daily assignment

Helps students keep track of grades

Full school calendar/events

Teachers seeing student grades in other classes

Gets school districts to purchase a license to a subpar and redundant program.

Causes over worked educations to become more overworked, free of charge.

Hoodwinks people into thinking that a platform with all the design savvy of a 2001 blog builder site is worth their time.

Improve interface and user friendliness

Streamline the set up process

Make it less cumbersome to copy course content into a second course, and more importantly, don’t cause changes made in said second course to duplicate I’m the first course.

Pay the teachers who wasted countless hours of their unpaid time working on your program and getting nowhere.

Many popular third-party educational apps have LTIs that integrate with Canvas.

The gradebook has a Mastery Learning option for recording progress against a set of academic standards.

The UI is very intuitive and even non-tech savvy users can use it effectively with minimal training.

Their integration with Big Blue Button was a bust for distance learning. Would be great to see them collaborate with Zoom or Google Meets.

Their "feature request" process is slow and cumbersome at times because it relies on user "up votes" to get ideas addressed by the developers.

They seem to have a lot of turn-over with their staff. We get a new Customer Success Manager far more frequently than with other vendors.

Simple and intuitive interface

Mobile friendly and intuitive app for both students and teachers

Integration with third party tools

Rubric usage for forums is clunky, as is using rubrics for formal grading anywhere in the system

Peer review, while promising, is nearly impossible for most faculty to set up correctly. A big disappointment for us

Set up and accommodation for mastery learning, ungrading, or other alterantive grading structures is challenging

Canvas is great for keeping all the learning and education tasks, info, assignments, etc in one place

The discussion options are helpful

The messaging system with instructors and students/employees is great

The grading options work well

It's a little difficult at first to use

For some reason my log in has trouble working at times. Not sure if its a server issue or something else.

The video and recording tool could be better

Syllabus management

Course assignment

Grading

Canvas app

Assignments can be improved

Backend integration and reporting

Great customer support

Very clear instructions

Powerful features

It came with a cost

Some of the functions/features can be hard to find

Navigation can be more clear.

Creativity options for teachers to create a virtual space that still has fun graphics and accessibility options.

Canvas has versatility in viewing options for assignment due dates such as the calendar built in feature as well as the dashboard options to display upcoming and due assignments.

Allowing teachers to create community with each other and collaborate in each-other's space.

Discussion platforms within classrooms for students to communicate with each-other and with their teachers.

Easy messaging portal within each virtual classroom.

Canvas is challenging to use when creating your classroom as a new user (Must know basic editing and get acquainted with the Canvas page editing page, many will need training to get set up).

Does not always save students' work adequately (no built in auto-save feature) unless using an external PDF annotator or word processor program.

Canvas should create template classrooms or class pages that make getting started easier for teachers and new users.

Learning management - Even as the educational landscape rapidly shifts due to current events, Canvas is a great LMS for providing a consistent learning environment for students.

Mobile accessibility - Students can access their courses on Canvas from a variety of devices, including their smartphones.

Rich content - Instructors have the ability to create dynamic and engaging content for their courses.

Support - Response times for tickets and other support requests have increased over the last year.

This tool has a responsive web design, its adaptation to all devices facilitates access to the platform.

It has a dashboard, which presents a detailed list of our recent activity and academic history.

It gives educators the ability to create content to evaluate and upload grades to the system, allowing students and representatives to monitor grades and teaching methods.

Canvas is a software that is easy to access and operate through the web or application, but it should be taken into account that in order to create course content from scratch, training is needed since this area is not easy to do by yourself and the platform does not offer tutoring in this regard.

The user must have a stable internet connection as the system does not have auto-save, a slight fluctuation in the connection automatically generates the loss of information.

It offers few options to customize profiles, which makes it difficult to identify students at times.

Unfortunately, this software has a very bad customer service, since complaints, via email or phone call, have not been answered within three days, which hinders and hinders the smooth and continuous learning process.

Provides internal communication, not requiring an outside message or email system.

Includes a file sharing structure for instructional materials within the system.

Provides a grading platform that is viewable by students and instructors alike.

Getting used to the platform takes a little effort. Not quite plug and play.

File names used to be truncated - but that is fixed now.

Simple design interface.

Basic analytics for organization and courses.

The simple function for each module within the system.

The should be a possibility of having at least three basic colors for customization.

More local service support for Malaysia.

Pricing is still quite expensive for now although not as expensive as BB.

Simple and user friendly user interface.

Third-party solution integration.

Ease of course management.

Inbuilt discussion forum.

Lack of inbuilt video conferencing tools.

Quizzes should have proctoring and browser locked capability.

Mobile app can get have glitches.

Notifications are missed at times.

Canvas allows users to personalize pages and ensure institution brand is kept true. Our Canvas pages look just like everything else our institution creates.

Canvas allows for multiple users to full sites, that have different permissions. This allows us to assign teachers, teaching assistants, and other student users. Everyone has access in a different capacity, to make different changes, so management is easy!

Canvas allows students to share documents within their classes, so no need for outside document-sharing platforms. Students in the past were using Google-Docs to create "group work" material that could be edited in real time. Now, Canvas allows students to access that material directly from the site. This makes remote group work run much smoother!

I use the Canvas App as a part-time graduate student, and the functionality in the Discussion Board posts is a little off. I have to post discussion board posts often, so I find myself entering the information from my phone sometimes. After one or two sentences, the text lags behind. I'll be 3-4 sentences into a thought, and the text is still finishing the first line. This requires me to stop and let the text catch up, which often breaks my train of thought. I've noticed the same thing on my iPad - so I think it's strictly an App issue.

Canvas has so much to offer, that it can be overwhelming. When I was first assigned as a TA of a course, I had no idea where to start. It's not that Canvas is not user-friendly, but it definitely has a level of understanding that must be done before you can even begin. I wouldn't just assign a student to start using it and assume they could "figure it out", which means that we have to allow for training to be done when we expect anyone to use it. This just means a little more time and energy on the user, which is sometimes not always possible.

Using the People tab within a course is kind of pointless for me. This may be a setting at my institution, but when I look at the "people" in my class, I can't actually contact them. I can pull up their profile, see what sites they are enrolled in, their bio and their "links" - but there is no secure "send message" button from this landing page. I think that is a missed opportunity. I know there are other ways to send messages, but it seems that it would be pretty useful to add a contact button on the people tab.

It organizes students' grades in a timely manner.

It gives students notifications about upcoming assignments.

The notification feature could be improved upon as the professor has to put the due date as "midnight" otherwise the assignment will be automatically erased from the platform.

The audio recording feature has its technical issues. I have never been able to use it correctly.

User friendly: I found it easy to figure out how to use Canvas

Variety; there are a variety of types of assignments an instructor can create

Organized: the tools help you organize your course

Sometimes messages are delayed

It does not have it’s own video conferencing tool

Would be nice if there was a way to message groups of students based on a risk factor

Organization.

Communication with professors.

Hosting online materials.

If you send a message to a teacher, there is no record of the message until they write you back.

The Zoom features are confusing.

Not all of the teachers are as tech savvy as the students. This is user error, but more training would be helpful.

Assigning work

Sending messages

Displaying grades

Differentiating for particular students

Setting up groups for the teacher's side of things

Not intuitive

Ease of student use

Completed assignment tracking

Journal function

Creating different course sections with effective course design.

Creating assessments and learning measures tools.

Work on third-party application integration especially browsers compatibility.

Make more cost affordable for schools and Universities especially for those interested to switch from higher-cost LMS

Canvas is extremely flexible. I think that is both its greatest strength and perhaps a bit of a weakness.

Canvas is getting better at allowing instructors to duplicate individual assignments. That's a big improvement.

Canvas integrates well with Crocodoc for online paper commenting and grading.

Canvas has great import functions.

It would be great if we could deal with multiple assignments at a time.

Better visibility of how students see a course would also be helpful.

Searching for rubrics is really bad. The rubrics from the current course should default to the top. As it now works, the user has to search through every course ever taught to find a rubric.