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Canvas LMS
Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 11 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
- 1Canvas is often painfully slow to useUnreviewed
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Canvas is often painfully slow to useUnreviewed
20112026- Canvas is often painfully slow for users2023-10-19
- Terrible user experience for students using Canvas2021-02-03
- Canvas is a huge pain for drawing simple shapes compared to SVG2012-06-22
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 15 complaints
- Too many redundant features and multiple ways to do the same task2026-05-10
- Slow, cumbersome, dated interface that is hard to get through2026-05-08
- Slow, fails to display files, and interface is non-intuitive and verbose2026-05-08
- Some features are counter-intuitive, such as matching quiz questions to outcomes2023-10-21
- Canvas is often painfully slow for users2023-10-19
- Supporting every teaching style makes the LMS overcomplicated and difficult to use2021-11-19
- Terrible user experience for students using Canvas2021-02-03
- Canvas doesn't say anything about attempts when only one submission is allowed, which is confusing2020-10-16
- Calendar and module views differ between classes, confusing students2020-10-15
- Felt steadily more unusable over time during student years2020-09-01
- Requires a million clicks to do anything; no central grades page; assignments missing from upcoming list2018-12-08
- Ctrl-Z does nothing visible, and backspace then removes invisible hidden steps instead of text2016-03-29
- Professors struggle to grade and comment; the software is confusing to use2015-07-21
- Canvas is a huge pain for drawing simple shapes compared to SVG2012-06-22
- Admin tools hard to find or missing, such as managing users and courses2011-02-01