Cornell’s Center for Teaching Innovation created the Canvas Course Spotlight program — a program offering Cornell students the chance to highlight and recognize design elements of Canvas courses that have positively impacted their learning experience...

How does Canvas best support student learning? We Asked Them. In Spring 2025, Cornell University's Center for Teaching Innovation launched the Canvas Course Spotlight to find out exactly which course design elements students believe positively impact...

Pause, measure, and move forward: discover how analytics transform adoption into ongoing growth.

Canvas Portfolio Unlocked New Tool - New Training Opportunities We're excited to announce new training opportunities to help support the availability of the Canvas Portfolio LTI, free to all Canvas LMS customers. This new feature is a powerful and us...

The Academic Strategy and Advance Development teams at Instructure are exploring whether aspects of course design—such as structure, clarity, and alignment—can be recognized in Canvas LMS. And, we'd value your expertise.

This year, we’re exploring how educators, technologists, and leaders reach learners at every stage from first enrollment to lifelong growth.   Join the discussion and share your ideas, learnings from CanvasCon, examples or challenges in any of these...

Welcome to the CanvasCon Class of 2025 map. Attendees from across Europe, from Oslo, Oxford, Oviedo and beyond, have added their places here to show how far our community reaches.

In this Beyond the Canvas episode, Regional Director Gemma McLean speaks with Tom Christiansen, Head of Digital Learning & Innovation and Maths and English teacher at Mentone Grammar in Melbourne. 

  EDUCAUSE is full of inspiration, whether you’re onsite or following from afar. Join the evolution by sharing what sparks your curiosity, the questions you have, and the insights you discover. We'll learn from each other, expand our networks, and s...

Behind every successful adoption is great instructional design. This month’s Adoption Corner explores how intentional course design, accessibility, and consistency drive lasting Canvas success.

In our latest Beyond the Canvas episode, Regional Director Gemma McLean sits down with Jen Walsh, Customer Success Manager APAC at CidiLabs.

We’re deeply committed to protecting the data of our institution users AND our partners. That’s why we're going to begin enforcing use of a User-Agent header for all HTTP requests–a best practice throughout the software industry aligning with our bro...

 Educators, we want to hear from you! How are you navigating digital divides, digital fatigue, and AI in teaching and learning? Share your experiences in our short four-question survey - your insights will help the Instructure community learn and gr...

Adoption doesn’t hinge on one moment - it’s built one intentional step at a time. This month’s Adoption Corner shows how a strategic training plan ensures every User has the support they need for lasting success with Canvas.

In our latest Beyond the Canvas episode, Regional Director Gemma McLean sits down with Jai Bishop, lead teacher at Aoba International School in Japan. The school is an early adopter of the International Baccalaureate online in APAC, and Jai is using ...

Looking for practical, research-backed strategies to evolve your course design without the overwhelm? This eBook breaks it down with clear steps and real-world insights. Dive in and reshape your courses, one step at a time.

Technical success is just the start. The real challenge of a new platform like Canvas is getting people to use it effectively. We'll explore why a people-centered approach is crucial for long-term adoption and how you can reset your strategy for succ...

This monthly blog series, written by Instructure consultants, brings together strategy, support, and real-world insight - all grounded in the work we do every day with institutions like yours.Each post tackles a key moment in the digital learning jou...

We are hosting our regional CanvasCon events later this year and are keen to hear from educators on some important topics impacting our industry.

Say goodbye to scattered workflows and manual oversight. Canvas Apps is a new centralized space inside Canvas LMS that empowers admins to take control of their LTI integrations — from discovery to daily management.  

Looking for a way to personalize instruction without reorganizing your whole course or creating visible student groups? Differentiation Tags allow instructors to discreetly tag students based on learning needs, preferences, or academic progress — unl...

We know that accessibility isn't just a feature; it's a fundamental aspect of inclusive design. We created a Canvas Course Accessibility Checklist to provide a practical, easy-to-use tool that helps course designers like you build accessible courses ...

Curious to learn what LTIs/Apps your learners are leveraging? Look no further than this month's Dear Danielle video! 

In this episode of Beyond the Canvas, Gemma sits down with Glory Puljak, Manager of Innovation Education at Anglican Schools Corporation, to explore how she helped establish a shared learning platform across 19 schools, balancing consistency with loc...

Are you ready for an even richer learning experience with a host of new features and expanded access?  Are you a Premium On-Demand Training Portal Subscriber*? Great news for our Premium Subscribers! Instructure is rolling out exciting new features i...

Great news, Canvas Community! We've just released our updated Beginning and End of Course Checklist for Instructors (2025 Update). This comprehensive guide, built on our team's deep Canvas knowledge, is your essential resource for efficient course ma...

We all know that creating rubrics directly in the interface, criterion by criterion, can be a time-consuming process. To streamline this, I've developed a user script that allows you to upload a complete rubric from a simple CSV file.

Canvas Classic Quizzes are out, and New Quizzes are in.  See how the College of Southern Idaho skipped the panic and piloted a smooth, faculty-centered transition.

Have you ever wished you could easily create beautiful, clickable buttons directly within the Rich Content Editor (RCE) without having to manually code HTML?

At Instructure, we're committed to making teaching and learning more effective, intuitive, and inclusive for everyone. That’s why we’re launching a new research initiative—and we’d love your input. What’s the Goal?We’re studying how different users ...