Resource Roundup from Instructure New & Next | Q2 2025 (HEd)

[KevinMeredith]

Thank you for attending the Q2 Instructure New and Next Webinar. This post includes linked resources for the recent product releases covered in our Q2 2025 Instructure New & Next webinars, 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.

• You can access the recordings, Q&A reports, and slides from the webinar at the event's Instructure Live page.

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

• Discussion Checkpoints (Canvas LMS)
• Blog post: Discussion Checkpoints Update Based On Your Feedback 
• Release Notes: March 15, 2025 
• Updates to Canvas Media Player (Canvas LMS and Canvas Studio)
• Blog: Updates to Our Media Player 
• Release Notes: Canvas Release Notes (2025-04-19), Studio Release Notes (2025-04-19) 
• Updates to whiteboard and diagramming in Canvas (Canvas LMS)
• Webinar: Lucid in Canvas Walkthrough - This video highlights the registration, tools, and use cases for utilizing Lucid’s whiteboarding and diagramming functionality in Canvas. 
• Blog Post: Updates to Whiteboarding and Diagramming in Canvas
• Collaborative Pinboards (Intelligent Insights)
• Blog post: Pinboard Sharing is Here! Share Insights with Ask Your Data 

Advancing Credentialing, Mobility, and Lifelong Learning

• Beta environment (Canvas Credentials)
• Blog Post: Beta Environments for Canvas Credentials 

Powering all Stages of the Assessment Lifecycle

• New Quizzes Improvements:
  • Canvas Deploy Notes (2025-04-23)
  • Canvas Deploy Notes (2025-03-26)
• Release Notes:

Leveraging AI for Educator Efficiency and Student Success

• Join us in Spokane for InstructureCon 2025 this summer for more AI announcements!

[KevinMeredith]

As a follow up to this resource, we would love your feedback on the Lucid integration. We are looking for insights from you on how we can improve the integration, how you're using whiteboard and diagramming functionality, and any other feedback you may have: https://instructure.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eMbAIIdbLcLMIrc

Thank you!

[debbie_unterseh]

This link does not have the recordings, Q&A reports, and slides

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructure-Live/Instructure-New-amp-Next-Product-Updates-for-Hig...

Also, when I go here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructure-Live/eb-p/instructurelive?events=events-past the blogs are listed oldest to newest. Can they be defaulted to newest to oldest?

One of the frustrations I have with Canvas is that changes are constantly being made, and there is no easy way for me to keep track of all these changes as both an admin and a teacher.

Thanks!

[KristinL]

Hello @debbie_unterseh - Moments ago, I updated the Instructure Live event. The recording, slides, and Q&A are all available! Thank you for the feedback regarding the sorting options of past events. I'll bring that back to my team, and we'll take a look at what's possible.