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Vote on improvements to Canvas

Anyone with a Canvas account can participate

Published Mar 29, 2023

Do you want to influence the development of Canvas in the coming six months? In that case, you can vote on various proposed improvements during a period in April. The only requirement is that you have a Canvas account and an opinion. Here you can read more about how you go about voting.

What is the voting about?

The company behind Canvas, Instructure, receives ideas for improvements daily, which they collect under different themes. Every six months, all users get to vote on about a dozen selected themes to help Instructure prioritize them based on the needs of Canvas users. The vote will therefore influence the development of Canvas in the coming six months.

Users worldwide will vote, so feel free to spread this to your colleagues to have a greater impact on the result.

For more information on the underlying process, read How do Ideas and Themes work in the Instructure Community? (community.canvaslms.com) .

When does the voting take place?

Voting takes place between the 3rd and 28th of April, 2023. Future voting windows will be during October and February.

Who can vote?

Anyone with a Canvas account can vote.

How do I vote?

To vote, it is important that you log in in the correct order. Do the following:

  1. Log in to Canvas  with your KTH login.
  2. Log in to the Instructure Community  according to the following steps:
    1. Press the "Sign In" button in the upper right corner.
    2. Press the "Log in with Canvas" button (the first of the two buttons).
    3. You may need to choose your Canvas account. In that case, select "canvas.kth.se" in the drop-down menu and press the "Go" button.
    4. If this is the first time you log in to Instructure Community, you will also need to accept their terms and conditions.
  3. Go to the voting page Canvas Ideas and Themes (community.canvaslms.com) .
  4. Press the "Themes: Open for Voting" tab.
  5. Vote for a theme by pressing its title and then pressing the "Vote" icon. For more information, read the page How do I participate with themes? (community.canvaslms.com) .

More information

To read Instructure's blog post on what to expect from voting, go to Themes Voting Window: What to Expect (community.canvaslms.com) .

In addition to this type of voting, there are other forms of contact between Instructure and the customers (KTH in this case) for more long-term and customer-adapted goals.

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