Some new opt-in features are available in the production environment but are subject to change. Provide your feedback and help contribute to additional improvements before they’re enabled for all product users.
Please note features noted as Feature Previews are in active development. Feature updates take place within the product’s regular release cycle and will be noted in Release or Deploy Notes, as needed. Please view the user group for more details.
Canvas LMS
Admin Analytics
Admin Analytics is a new feature that makes it easy for administrators to see and understand how Canvas is used across their school or institution to inform decisions quickly.
- Admin Analytics Hub
- Current Status: Feature Preview (Active Development)
- Production Availability: As of 2023-03-29
- Projected Feature Enforcement: TBA
Assignment Enhancements
Supported student assignments display an improved interface and submission workflow. This change improves the student experience in completing and submitting assignments, viewing rubrics, and locating instructor feedback.
- Assignment Enhancements User Group
- Current Status: Feature Preview (Active Development)
- Production Availability: As of 2020-10-17
- Projected Feature Stability: 2021-10-27
- Projected Feature Enforcement: TBA
Course Pacing
Course Pacing is a new feature preview. See the Course Pacing Feature Overview.
- Course Pacing User Group
- Current Status: Feature Preview (Active Development)
- Production Availability: 2022-04-27
- Projected Feature Stability: TBA
- Projected Feature Enforcement: TBA
Discussions/Announcements Redesign
Discussions/Announcements Redesign is a project to enhance the Discussions and Announcements user experience. See the Discussions Feature Overview.
- Discussions/Announcements Redesign User Group
- Current Status: Feature Preview (Active Development)
- Production Availability: As of 2021-06-19
- Projected Feature Stability: Parity as of August 2021; new features TBA
- Projected Feature Enforcement: TBA
Enhanced Gradebook Filters
Enhanced Gradebook Filters is a feature preview that allows a user to set a series of conditions to be filtered for in the Canvas gradebook.
- Gradebook Filters User Group
- Current Status: Feature Preview (Active Development)
- Production Availability: As of 2022-02-17
- Projected Feature Enforcement: 2023-08-19
New Analytics
New Analytics provides a richer analytics experience for course grades, weekly online activity, and individual student view. All analytics also include mobile page views. Analytics can be displayed in a grid format or in an interactive graph.
- New Analytics User Group
- Current Status: Feature Preview (Active Development)
- Production Availability: As of 2019-05-15
- Projected Feature Stability: TBA
- Projected Feature Enforcement: TBA
New Quizzes
New Quizzes is an assessment engine that integrates with Canvas as an LTI tool and replaces the classic quizzes functionality currently existing in Canvas. Instructors can use New Quizzes to create assessments using a variety of question types.
- New Quizzes Hub
- Current Status: Canvas Release Schedule
- Production Availability: As of 2018-08-04
- Projected Feature Stability: Classic Quiz Sunset Timeline
- Projected Feature Enforcement: See Upcoming Canvas Changes
Some new features are currently only available within the beta environment. See what’s new and share your feedback before these features are made available to all product users.
Canvas LMS
New Quizzes
Classic quizzes content, including question banks, migrate to New Quizzes.
The following features in this section have been removed from the beta environment and may be re-introduced in a future release.
Currently no features have been removed from the beta environment
For information on changes made in the production environment, please review the Release Notes.
