Ignite AI Course Creation Updates: Store Sources, Align Your Brand, and Speed Up Page Generation!

RyanDontas
Instructure
Instructure
‎10-10-2025 12:08 PM
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These updates focus on efficiency, brand consistency, and putting creators in the loop at every step. Here are three key new items we want to highlight within your Canvas sub-account or instance when you access Ignite AI:

1. Introducing Easier Source Management and Storage

We understand that accessing and using source material is incredibly important for you and your organizations. We’ve made it much easier to upload sources, and we've also introduced a dedicated place to store all the source materials you might want to reuse repeatedly.

What's new in Sources?

  • Source Storage: You can now see all the sources you've uploaded in the source materials section.
  • Easy Selection: You can choose from these stored source materials, such as a nursing transcript, to guide your course generation.
  • Clarity in Chat: When you go to the chat to generate courses, it is now really clear which source is being used. The chat explicitly leverages the provided source throughout the process.
  • Improved Experience: This update makes the source uploading process a little easier to navigate than it was previously.
  • Flexibility: You can still upload materials directly from your computer as always.

2. Brand Consistency with Theme Alignment

One piece of feedback we received was that pages created by the AI were not aligning with users' brand colors. We heard you!

Now, when the AI generates pages, it integrates your brand's look and feel. The AI looks into your theme editor (which you can find in Admin) and uses the primary colors of your sub-account. For example, if your sub-account theme is purple, the generated pages will reflect that.

Beyond just color, the AI is also doing more to enhance information architecture and make the resulting content more engaging.

3. Streamlined Page Generation within the Course Flow

We are making course building quicker by integrating content generation earlier in the process.

The improvement addresses a previous workflow: Before this update, you had to follow a multi-step process: generate the course, generate the modules, generate the shells of the pages and assignments, confirm and create the course, and then go generate the content page by page.

Now, you can generate pages directly from the course flow!

  • You can now see a list of pages and assignments and start generating that content immediately.
  • While generating pages and assignments—which involves building new content—takes about 30 seconds or so per item, the best practice is to tackle them sequentially.
  • Remember, the ultimate goal is to make sure that human creators and designers are in the loop at every step. You can still update learning objectives, and the created learning objects will reflect those changes.

Thank you for being product preview and EAP customers. We encourage you to try out these new features! Please comment on this post if you have any questions .