As we are all reflecting on the past year and thinking about the future, I thought I would share a bit about my new journey as the first Chief Academic Officer at Instructure.

The Instructure Community is launching a new set of badges to acknowledge members for their valuable contributions. We’re also thrilled that the scaled badges will make it easier to identify credible members throughout the Community! 

Each year, the Community Team takes a moment to summarize all of the amazing things that occur in the Instructure Community. While we’re excited about the activities and updates we have planned for you in 2024, it’s humbling to highlight the ways Ins...

Updates and New Features: Tooltips, Blog Metadata, Top Nav Labels, Idea Filters, and Partner Space Happy Holidays from the Instructure Community team! We’re bringing you some quality-of-life updates this month to make participating in the Instructure...

This last month has been an incredible celebration of our Instructure Community. We’ve taken time to feature moments from our history and focus on contributions throughout the Community. Now, it’s time to place the spotlight on the potential of our f...

Between November 20 - December 15, 2023, the Instructure Community will work together to create 12 or more new events for January, February, and March 2024. With this, people who agree to host a live event for Community members and place an event on ...

Between November 13 - December 8, 2023, we will work together to publish 25 or more new blogs and to provide 250 or more likes to blog authors. With this, up to 12 people who author quality new content in any of the Instructure Community’s blogs will...

Between November 6 - December 1, 2023, we will work together to achieve a 67% solution rate in Question Forums. With this, two people who provide solutions in the Instructure Community’s Question Forums will be randomly chosen each week to win some a...

The Instructure Community, an engaged, brilliant, kind, and giving online global community of teachers, administrators, and even students, forever has my heart. Thank you for being one of the nearlyTwo Million members, and thank you for the influenti...

After our initial work on the Community Hub earlier this year, we knew we wanted to add even more goodness to the central hub of this Community. The Community Hub has been updated with more Community guides, a new tabbed layout with new sorting optio...

We’re so excited about what adding Parchment to the Instructure Learning Platform means for educators and learners!

Community Updates 2023-10-12: Changes to the Product Blog interface We’re back with some more updates to the Instructure Community! We’ve been working on some new features to make filtering and sorting articles in the Community easier.

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Curious to learn more about how to use one of Danielle's favorite spaces, the Community? Look no further than this month's Dear Danielle video! 

This Community empowers you with information to use Instructure software successfully, but we know it can sometimes feel like an expedition to find a single panda in the deepest darkest bamboo forest - we want to help you find that panda faster and i...

A new button was added to each Question Forum. This great little tool was added to help you and all Community members quickly identify useful answers and to save you time! 

From June to October and December, the Community Team is making it a priority to recognize Community members who help others by sharing solutions in the Question Froums found throughout the Community. These members make it possible for everyone to ma...

Were you aware that Instructure provides a video hosting and collaboration solution, Canvas Studio? We weren’t sure, so we thought we better ask before we share some exciting news - All video guides will be migrating from Vimeo to Canvas Studio by Ju...

The Comunity Team is rolling out a rather significant update starting the week of June 5, 2023:   Refreshed Home Page - An updated and elevated feel to the Instructure Community home page will make it easier to access the most important resources and...

Each step in the Community’s 8-year history needed different care and different supports to thrive, the mission and one key element were constant as membership and resource counts climbed. YOU. The people who come to the Community to advance their un...

The Comunity Team is rolling out a rather significant update starting the week of June 5, 2023:   Individual product landing pages – Each product in the four product families will have a new layout applied and will be organized to promote actions of ...

The Comunity Team is rolling out a rather significant update during the week of June 5, 2023:   Simplified top-level navigation - New navigation cues in the Community will organize resources into the categories of Product, Groups, and Explore and wil...

Back in January 2022, Community team member Tami B wrote a blog post introducing the Mastery Connect Great Guides Overhaul. And today, I’m excited to share that we recently put the finishing touches on that project.

As we wrap up Teacher Appreciation Week, I want to take a moment and add my voice of thanks to all of our educators. Your hard work and dedication in the classroom, whether in person or virtual, don’t go unnoticed. 

Thank you, teachers, from a fellow former teacher and always advocate of education. The dedication and hard work you put in every day drive our business forward.

Thank you, Teachers! You are the driving force behind what we do at Instructure. When you succeed, we all succeed. Thank you for your commitment to education and for inspiring us to create tools to help you with your mission.