We’re introducing a new way to subscribe and stay up-to-date with the latest posts from the Product Blog and only see the topics you care about: label subscriptions. With label subscriptions, you can easily manage which products or topics you get updates for from the Product Blog.

We reached out to get your views  on Open Educational Resources (OER), your experience with their usability, and what you feel is essential to its future. As a token of our appreciation for everyone’s time and contribution, we are sharing this preliminary report of findings.  

Instructure’s Discovery Sessions provide Canvas users with a direct line to Instructure’s software engineers and product managers. Participants engage in discussions about generative AI, prioritize quick wins, and share unfiltered insights. These sessions highlight Instructure’s commitment to listening and shaping educational tools based on user feedback.

To All Our Amazing Teachers, Instructors, and Educators Across the Globe, Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to you!

Are you curious about the future of humanity and the role technology plays in shaping it? Do you want to explore the possibilities and challenges that lie ahead with others? Join us in our upcoming book club as we explore the thought-provoking insights of Dr. Jordan Nguyen ahead of his Keynote at InstructureCon 2024.

We would love to get your views on Open Educational Resources (OER), your experience with their usability, and what you feel is essential to its future. 

We're adding new Instructure Live reminders, a redesigned home page for unauthenticated users, updates to our blog pages, and a new all guides page.

Today’s a big day for the Instructure Community! We’re acknowledging a significant milestone for Instructure’s Community Coaches program.

Canvas Release Notes will be published two days after updates are added to the Beta environment.

We’ve updated the Canvas LMS Question Forum user interface to provide easier access to answered and unanswered questions, upgraded the question feeds to match the new design throughout the Community, and made browsing and answering questions easier. These changes will roll out to the Canvas LMS Question Forum today and will roll out to other product question forums in the coming weeks and months.

We’ve also added a new Share button for earned badges. On the Badges tab on your profile page, you can share badges you’ve earned on social media using the provided text and links.

We refreshed and updated the Canvas LMS Release Notes pages with a clean design, added functionality, and easier back-end management. We also created a new Release Notes Archives page to let users easily browse and search older release notes. For now, these changes only apply to Canvas LMS Release Notes. Other product release notes will be updated in the coming months.

As we are all reflecting on the past year and thinking about the future, I thought I would share a bit about my new journey as the first Chief Academic Officer at Instructure.

We updated the Instructure Community gamification structure with a brand new set of badges. The badges represent actions you take in and the value you add to the Instructure Community. The new badges also help you identify the credibility of members throughout the Community by giving you better context about a member’s participation in the Community. For more details on what the new badges mean and how we decided on the new badges, read Kristin’s Announcing: New Community Badges blog post.

The Instructure Community is launching a new set of badges to acknowledge members for their valuable contributions. We’re also thrilled that the scaled badges will make it easier to identify credible members throughout the Community! 

Each year, the Community Team takes a moment to summarize all of the amazing things that occur in the Instructure Community. While we’re excited about the activities and updates we have planned for you in 2024, it’s humbling to highlight the ways Instructure Community members came together and made a difference in 2023. 

Updates and New Features: Tooltips, Blog Metadata, Top Nav Labels, Idea Filters, and Partner Space Happy Holidays from the Instructure Community team! We’re bringing you some quality-of-life updates this month to make participating in the Instructure Community even easier.

This last month has been an incredible celebration of our Instructure Community. We’ve taken time to feature moments from our history and focus on contributions throughout the Community. Now, it’s time to place the spotlight on the potential of our future. Where will we be at 3 Million? It’s time to get that panda-shaped crystal ball I referenced a few weeks ago !

Between November 20 - December 15, 2023, the Instructure Community will work together to create 12 or more new events for January, February, and March 2024. With this, people who agree to host a live event for Community members and place an event on the Instructure Live calendar will be randomly chosen to win some amazing swag!

Between November 13 - December 8, 2023, we will work together to publish 25 or more new blogs and to provide 250 or more likes to blog authors. With this, up to 12 people who author quality new content in any of the Instructure Community’s blogs will be randomly chosen to win some amazing swag!

It's official! Instructure's Community is now celebrating the remarkable journey to 2 million members. With each click, each post, and each interaction, this Community is building a brighter future for education - one where support and inspiration are readily available to all who seek it.

2 Million Members, Holy Panda! This Community continues to impress and excite us with every new season! We truly have shared so many fond memories and experiences during the last 10 years! We ask members of the Instructure Community - past and present - to share their favorite moments in Community using our shared Padlet. Take a read, relive the moments, or experience them for the first time, and then share yours! 

Between November 6 - December 1, 2023, we will work together to achieve a 67% solution rate in Question Forums. With this, two people who provide solutions in the Instructure Community’s Question Forums will be randomly chosen each week to win some amazing swag!

The Instructure Community, an engaged, brilliant, kind, and giving online global community of teachers, administrators, and even students, forever has my heart. Thank you for being one of the nearlyTwo Million members, and thank you for the influential role you played in inspiring us on how to support customers.

After our initial work on the Community Hub earlier this year, we knew we wanted to add even more goodness to the central hub of this Community. The Community Hub has been updated with more Community guides, a new tabbed layout with new sorting options, a profile completion checklist, an improved Jobs Board, an improved Resources section, and more.

We’re so excited about what adding Parchment to the Instructure Learning Platform means for educators and learners!

Community Updates 2023-10-12: Changes to the Product Blog interface

We’re back with some more updates to the Instructure Community! We’ve been working on some new features to make filtering and sorting articles in the Community easier.

Community posts!

Hey Community. Canvas Fam. Yes, you. 🫵 Let's Chat.

This Community empowers you with information to use Instructure software successfully, but we know it can sometimes feel like an expedition to find a single panda in the deepest darkest bamboo forest - we want to help you find that panda faster and in a way that feels natural. 

It’s why we’re introducing Panda Bot, a beta AI experience!  

A new button was added to each Question Forum. This great little tool was added to help you and all Community members quickly identify useful answers and to save you time!