Canvas Student User Reviews

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Okay, but has obvious deficits

-You cannot view the full description of rubrics on the app.
-The push notifications are atrociously categorized and not well established.
-You cannot save a message as a draft under the inbox tab. You cannot even minimize the draft or review the message sent to you previously without closing the whole thing.
-You cannot hide or remove old courses or random things, which ultimately ends up spamming your current courses on the dashboard. I recommend color coding them to make it easier, but you will still have to scroll. I know canvas will just say it’s your schools fault for not removing them. But there is no reason you can’t β€œpin” a class to the top for quick access. Plus, why as a supposedly user-friendly app, is it so limiting for the student to make any sort of accessibility modification? β€”β€” Update DEC 2024 β€”β€” These reviews are kind of pointless as we have to use this system regardless, so as long as teachers are required to use them, so are we as students. The new update is atrocious and it is frustrating to relearn the flow. The flow however, seems very poorly designed and difficult to navigate and does not seem fluid at all.
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App force quitting

After the latest update I cannot open the app at all

Not working

Newest update causes app to crash on launch on iPad Pro 11 - Nov 2024. I can’t access classes or reading material. Please fix!!

Not easy to use

Features are not easy to use

Great dating app!

Canvas is the most effective dating platform I have ever used. Met my girlfriend on here four years ago!

Also very convenient that you can also submit homework and stuff on here too. Cool feature, but I’m not really sure why it’s necessary for that sort of integration.

Good app but can’t multitask

Uni uses this site but my major issue is that you can β€˜t have multiple files open at the same time like you can with apps like good notes. It makes it really hard to bounce between slides and practice problems without a computer .

Response from developer

Dear Everything art, we are very happy to have your feedback and thank you bringing our attention to this problem. We will see how we can support the paralel learning.

Requesting new simple feature

Hi Canvas Team,

I am writing this to request a new feature for Canvas.

Most of the time lecturers put down a list of weekly Tasks on Canvas.

And was wondering if it can be changed to have a tick box that student then can tick or untick just for themselves

I had to copy and paste every single list of task from different courses each week from Canvas (web or the app) onto my Task manager such as Apple Reminders App.

It would be nice to just have that tick boxes built in on Canvas for student to use

the idea is that Lecturers will write down the tasks that they think should be done

And then students can see them and use tick boxes inside Canvas directly to mark if an item has been completed, students wont be able to create new tasks on their own

Thank you,
Dan
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Response from developer

Dear Dan, thank you for your great suggestion. We are happy to investigate your idea and we would love to invite you being involved in our discovery group. Please contact us in our common channels, if you are in πŸ‘.

Love the new update but…

Love the new update but it seems like 1 week before and custom are not working for the new notification for assignments. It says that those are after the due date if you go to set them

Response from developer

Hi Jiley16, thank you for your review. It would be very useful to understand the circumstances in order to improve the application. Please contact us and describe in more detail your scenario, because in-house we could not reproduce your findings. Please use the app's Help menu or the standard community channels. Much appreciated

I don’t like this app

We get given huge projects from it thanks a lot instructure inc

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback. We are happy to learn from your experience. Please write us an email to the e-mail support@instructure.com or visit our community for further guidance.

stresses me out

makes me hate school

Response from developer

Dear willy.is.him, could you please elaborate more on the problem you have faced? Please share your findings through our in-app HELP menu. Thank you

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