Content release notes outline the new and updated Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) Impact Content that is displayed inside your Impact Dashboard. This includes OOTB Campaigns, Monitors, Monitor Categories/Reporting Templates, Contexts, and Support Center.
Unless otherwise stated, all content in this release is available in the Production environment on 2025-05-20.
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Campaigns
Canvas Release of May 17th, 2025
Launching the Canvas release campaign provides users with updates and new features in Canvas.
Impact Research Study for Faculty [Added 2025-05-24]
The purpose of this campaign is to support an important research initiative in partnership with Instructure’s research team. The goal of this study is to better understand how instructors engage with embedded support and communication tools within Canvas—tools admins have been implementing through Impact.
What the study involves:
- A short, one-time survey for instructors in May 2025 (via Qualtrics)
- Questions that explore instructor experience with messaging, support content, and instructional impact
- Findings that help improve the Impact tool, best practices for institutions, and hopefully demonstrate evidence of the effectiveness of Impact
Note: The survey will close on June 4th, 2025.
Monitors
New Quizzes
The following monitor is added to New Quizzes monitors:
- Build new quiz page: Confirm stimulus removal pop-up: Remove stimulus button
- Build new quiz page: Text block: Done button
Discussions [Added 2025-05-24]
The following monitor is added to Discussions monitors:
Monitor Categories/Reporting Templates
New Quizzes
New Quizzes monitors are added to the following category:
Instructor
>Assessments
>>New Quizzes
>>>Build new quizzes
>>>>Add Questions
>>>>>Stimulus question
>>>>>>Remove stimulus
New Quizzes: Stimulus Question
Instructor
> Assessments
>> New Quizzes
>>> Build new quizzes
>>>> Add text block
New Quizzes: Add text block
Discussions [Added 2025-05-24]
Discussions monitor is added to the following category:
Instructor
> Discussions
>> Discussion replies
>>> Copy reply permalink
Discussions: Copy reply permalink
Campaigns
Walkthrough: Import Grades in the Gradebook
In the Walkthrough: Import Grades in the Gradebook, the following context is updated on the given steps:
- Choose File
- Upload Data
- Save Changes
Walkthrough: Bulk Migrate Existing Quizzes as New Quizzes (Course Import Tool) [Added 2025-05-24]
In the Walkthrough: Bulk Migrate Existing Quizzes as New Quizzes (Course Import Tool), the following is updated on the given step:
- The orientation of the first step is updated
Monitor Categories/Reporting Templates
Campaign Monitors Report
The following changes are implemented in the Campaign Monitors report:
- Monitors that already exist under other reports (e.g., Instructor and Student) remained available there and are no longer in the Campaign Monitors Report. These are the following:
- Canvas Studio page
- Add items to score range button
- Course settings page: update/save button
- Modules page: Mastery paths drop-down menu item
- Syllabus page: Student view button
- Monitors that are exclusive to the Campaign Monitors Report are assigned the Legacy Monitors Tool Category and moved to the appropriate Legacy monitor categories within the Instructor and/or Student reports. These are the following:
- More menu button
- Course settings page: (actual) navigation tab
- Gradebook page: Grade Detail Tray
- The Campaign Monitors Report is formally deprecated and removed from the Dashboard.
Integrated Tools Report [Added 2025-05-24]
The following changes are implemented in the Integrated Tools report:
Now, many of these LTI launch-only monitors, available within the Impact Dashboard, can also be found in the new LTI Usage feature set. This enhancement enables admins to view, analyze, and act on launch data for any or all of the LTI tools within the Canvas instance, offering deeper insights and improved data visualization.
With LTI Usage enabling more effective data visualization and analysis, the existing OOTB LTI launch-only monitors is now assigned the Legacy Monitors Tool Category. As part of this transition, they are to be categorized in a new Legacy Monitor Category (called Legacy LTI launch-only Monitors) within the Integrated Tools Report. This change only addresses OOTB launch only monitors; not locally created monitors for homegrown tools or redirects are affected.
This update ensures a more streamlined and comprehensive approach to monitoring LTI tool usage empowering admins with better tools for decision making and engagement.
