Limitations of Canvas with Learning Journals

Members of the Canvas community has shared the following limitations of using learning journals within Canvas.

Canvas does not have a learning journal tool???

Canvas has never provided a specific tool to support learning journals. does not provide a journal tool.

Another community member

I still fail to see why Canvas cannot implement a functionality for personal reflection within the platform. It would not be difficult and reflection is such an integral part of learning that its absence is a real weakness. We need to be able to make the learning process visible to the tutor to support and guide it appropiately.

Using learning journals in Canvas is cubmersome

Using groups and discussion forums manually is known to be cumbersome

Private journals are hard to create though on Canvas.

And another

How can we get a proper journal function added to CANVAS for Fall 2021 (Instead of having faculty spending so much precious time creating the pseudo-journal alternatives?