Behind every data point is a story — and these sessions uncover how to find it. From building smarter assessment systems to making sense of institutional audits, this collection is all about transforming information into impact.

From compliance to compassion, these sessions shine a spotlight on what it really means to make learning accessible—for every student, in every space. 

Explore strategies for creating inclusive learning for diverse learners, experimenting with AI in education, and building flexible, participant-paced training systems that align with adult learning principles. Hear real-world examples from public sector organizations and corporations using Canvas to deliver professional development, certification compliance, and leadership growth. In this mixtape, look for practical insights, innovative approaches, and inspiration to remix learning and development in your own workplace.

From building digital classrooms for staff to crafting adaptive professional learning models, these sessions hit all the right notes for supporting every learner—from new users to seasoned pros. Explore real-world examples of Canvas powering school-wide collaboration, driving EdTech adoption, and enhancing engagement for teachers, students, and families alike. Tune in for ideas you can remix to strengthen your school community and keep professional learning in perfect rhythm.

Explore how schools are centralizing faculty resources, auditing and scaling digital credentials, powering industry-aligned workforce training, and designing accessible, inclusive courses from the ground up. Look for practical strategies, real-world case studies, and actionable insights that help institutions streamline workflows, maximize ROI, and create learning environments where both educators and students thrive.

From kindergarten curiosity to middle school milestones and high school mastery, this playlist is your all-access pass to the K-12 Canvas experience. These sessions spotlight teachers and districts using Canvas to spark student agency, simplify digital learning, and meet learners where they are—whether that’s through mastery paths, blended models, or tools that empower ELL and ESE students. Tune in for practical tips, inspiring stories, and classroom-ready strategies to make learning more personal, flexible, and fun for every student.

Turn up the volume on professional learning! This playlist brings together organizations reimagining how Canvas powers continuing education, career training, and professional development at scale. From launching nationwide micro-credentials to building multi-institution frameworks, integrating real-time learner data, and streamlining workforce certification, these sessions hit all the right notes. You’ll pick up fresh strategies, actionable playbooks, and inspiring case studies to help your programs not just keep pace—but set the tempo for the future of education.

This playlist drops the ultimate mashup of AI and analytics in higher education. From universities experimenting with GPT-powered tools to campuses remixing Intelligent Insights for ROI, student engagement, and accreditation, these sessions bring the beats of innovation straight into Canvas. You’ll hear practical takes on prompt engineering, real-world AI case studies, and data strategies that hit all the right notes for improving teaching, learning, and institutional success.

The wait is over! We’ve celebrated that all breakout sessions and select keynotes from InstructureCon 2025 are available in the Instructure Community. Now it’s time for the next step: mixtapes.

Get ready for two powerhouse keynotes at InstructureCon 2025! Katie Novak, Ed.D will bust the myths around Universal Design for Learning and show how UDL helps every student—and educator—thrive. Then, futurist Dr. Michelle R. Weise will explore how education must evolve to support lifelong learners in a rapidly changing world.

InstructureCon 2025 kicked off in Spokane with powerful themes of community, innovation, and impact. From a heartfelt welcome and local service project to learning about Ignite AI, the opening session set the tone: amplifying human potential through education and technology.

This closing message celebrates the impact of learning and credentialing, with highlights from Parchment’s role in empowering learners through diplomas, transcripts, and digital badges. Hear about a personal story about the lasting influence of a great teacher and celebrate as we look ahead to next year’s gathering in Louisville, Kentucky, July 21–23, 2026.

In a world where learners move from early education to career advancement in increasingly complex ways, the fundamental question persists: Are they ready for what’s next? Especially in an era of AI transformation, readiness—whether for a new grade level, higher education, or the workforce—can be a compass that guides meaningful educational progress.

As the Academic Strategy Team, we’ve spent the past year researching trends, attending conferences and gathering insights with customers and educational leaders across the educational landscape.

This session explores how trusted, teacher-guided AI can enhance — not replace — the human side of teaching. Together, we’ll look at how AI can support real-time content creation, reduce burnout, and help educators focus on what matters most: connection, creativity, and cognitive depth.

In this session, we'll discuss New Quizzes. Common myths will be addressed presenting statistics on advancements, user adoption, and accessibility compliance. The presentation covers the evolution of new quizzes, recent improvements, and future plans, including surveys, proctoring advancements, AI-powered item authoring assistance, and STEM question types.

Drowning in data but struggling to make it meaningful? Join us on a journey to transform numbers into actionable insights using Mastery Connect! In this session, we’ll share how we built educator buy-in, shifted mindsets, and empowered teachers to use data in meaningful ways.

Discover how you can empower learners to seamlessly enroll in courses, across multiple institutions, without transferring or navigating complex enrollment processes. You will also gain insights into how you can start your own course-sharing initiative.

Setting K-12 students up for lifelong learning takes a multi-faceted approach, and goes well beyond what happens in the classroom. Family engagement, efficient administrative processes, the right technology, and access to information after a student leaves the district are all key elements of helping students transition from one phase of their journey to their next big opportunity in K-12 and beyond.

Whether you're working with seasoned faculty members or those who have only a semester or two of Canvas experience - or are faculty yourself - this session will address common pitfalls and misunderstandings that often arise when rolling over courses.

The University of Cincinnati Online has recently made the switch to using a CRM, Salesforce, to help our Instruction Team manage and track the work we do across 10 colleges in Canvas. The transition to using Salesforce has allowed for better work tracking, more efficiencies, cross-functional collaboration, and greater data reporting with key external and internal partners across the university.

In this workshop we’ll share the journey of Northeastern University’s adoption of Canvas Credentials Pathways, highlighting the key factors that prompted our decision.

Artificial Intelligence is transforming how students learn and prepare for their futures. This session explores how two universities launched two AI-driven student engagement series that both leveraged Canvas.

In this session, join Instructure, Florida Gulf Coast University, and Elon University to hear how they are designing credentialing strategies that connect learning to employment by validating and showcasing what students know and can do.

In this session, you will explore UMD’s innovative strategies for navigating Canvas to enhance learning experiences, utilize analytics and reporting, and empower faculty and staff through workshops and training. We hope you will join us to see firsthand how data-informed decision-making can trailblaze educational goals and inspire your institution’s future!

Get ready to discover how Richland One (R1) School District in South Carolina has been transforming student success with Mastery Connect since 2015!

Success isn’t just about collecting data—it’s about using it effectively. Oscar Smith Middle School exemplifies this by leveraging Mastery Connect, Canvas, and Impact to transform Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), personalize instruction, and improve test scores, achieving state accreditation.

Discover how New Caney ISD has leveraged the Khanmigo + Canvas integration to place a dynamic lesson planning tool in the hands of their teachers.

In The AI Insurgence: Battlefield Academia, we’ll explore the benefits and risks of AI in education, define what responsible use looks like, and share practical steps teachers can take to guide students—and protect learning—in this evolving landscape.

Ever wonder how to deliver value and justify the ROI for Intelligent Insights? Sometimes it takes some out of the box thinking to figure out how data and analytics can and should be used. In this session, we’ll discuss the top 10 ways we got creative and delivered measurable return on our investment in Intelligent Insights.