Instead of taking the traditional approach of ‘badging for bragging rights’ (where you get a badge for doing something ‘right’ and glowing about it to all your peeps), we are flipping the model and “bragging by badging right” (glowing about you to all our peeps for the right reasons)! We are repurposing badges as a way to give out digital compliments to our awesome members.

Top Navigation menu of the Community will be under construction June 24, 2021 from 9:30am to 4:30pm MDT. Read on for more information or tips for finding Community content.

We've been working on even more awesome little updates to make our Community easier to use.

Tl;dr - Community content was migrated last summer, we had a record breaking fall, we’ve added some new products, and now it’s time to take what we’ve learned [thus far] and reorganize.

Canvas is a global solution, so providing quality guides in multiple languages has always been a top priority for Instructure. Guides in Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Welsh have been available for some time. However, only English, Portuguese, and Spanish guides could be found on our community site. The limitations of our previous community platform made publishing and organizing multi-language documentation difficult, so we housed many of those guides in a location outside of our Community. 

A few days are left of this horrible year

So we offer these gifts and some holiday cheer

To make this Community a better place

If you're reading a blog, you can now see a face!

And if you're scrolling a really long thread,

The author tag appears there in red.

And last but not least, this one's really cool,

We made a browser version checking tool.

It can be difficult to pinpoint exactly when a community coalesces but since at least 2011 people have been interacting with Instructure and helping each other with Canvas in online forums and message boards. In those early days, a few hundred people were involved. Today, that community passes a significant milestone as more than 500,000 people have created user accounts. During this fall start in the northern hemisphere, more than 25,000 people in one 24-hour period were active in the community, commenting, voting, adding content and marking each other’s comments as helpful or the correct answer.

We do this community thing because we care about our users' success and we believe community plays a big role in that. It gives us a place to communicate with our users but more importantly it gives our users a place to communicate with each other. A lot of evolution has happened over the past 5 years since we started figuring all this out. One thing that has become apparent: Community is the gift that keeps on giving.