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Thank you for joining us for New and Next – whether in-person at Instructurecon or virtually. This post includes linked resources for the recent product releases covered in our Q3 2025 Instructure New & Next updates, organized by theme. These resources have been created to help you better manage change and understand the impact and benefit of new releases.
We’ll continue to update this post as more resources become available.
Even if you didn’t join the session, we hope this aggregated list of resources helps you effectively communicate updates to the product experiences across your school or district. The following are themes of our product delivery, organized for your benefit:
Innovating for the Teaching & Learning Experience
- Performance and usability upgrades for Speedgrader (Canvas LMS)
- Canvas Release Notes (2025-06-21)
- Blog Post: Introducing Performance and Usability Upgrades for SpeedGrader
- Differentiation Tags (Canvas LMS)
- Blog Post: Differentiation Tags: Smarter Student Support
- Canvas Release Notes (2025-06-21)
- Blog Post: Understanding Sections, Groups, and Differentiation Tags: What’s the Difference?
- Differentiation Tags - FAQs
- Student to-do widget (Canvas Student App)
- Discussion Checkpoints updates (Canvas LMS)
- Canvas Deploy Notes (2025-06-18)
- Blog Post: Wrapping Up Discussions Redesign: Checkpoints Come to Group Work
- Dyslexia-Friendly Font (Canvas LMS)
- Canvas Release Notes (2025-06-21)
- Blog Post: Dyslexia-friendly font: Offering more accessibility options to our users
- Redesigned Files Page (Canvas LMS)
- Students in Need of Attention for Teachers (Intelligent Insights)
- Ask Your Data for Subaccounts (Intelligent Insights)
- Product Blog: Ask Your Data Introduces Scoped Data Access for Sub-Accounts
Powering all Stages of the Assessment Lifecycle
- Proctoring improvements in New Quizzes (Canvas LMS)
Empowering the Lifelong Learner Journey
- Canvas Credentials to Parchment Award Digital Badges
- Improved credentialing workflows and consistency (Canvas Credentials/Parchment Digital Badges)
- Improved Canvas Catalog management and learner engagement (Canvas Catalog)
- Impact integration (Canvas Catalog)
- Roadmap: Impact x Catalog integration
- Blog Post: Impact x Catalog Integration
Partnering through complexity and change
- Accessibility updates (all products)
- Archive and restore media (Canvas Studio)
Strengthening an open and effective edtech ecosystem
- Canvas Apps (Canvas LMS)
- Canvas Apps - FAQ
- Study Hall: Canvas and the Power of a Connected Ecosystem
- Blog Post: Canvas Apps: A smarter hub for discovering, managing, and monitoring LTI tools
- Customized message placement (Impact)
- Developer Documentation Portal
Leveraging AI for Educator Efficiency and Student Success
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