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.

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.

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.

Our Techfomercials—short videos styled like classic infomercials—are designed to both entertain and inform, making it easier for faculty to fully leverage Canvas. Join us to see how we’ve made exploring Canvas features both practical and fun, and walk away with ideas for helping your faculty get the most out of Canvas! With its powerful tools and features, Canvas can significantly enhance teaching, and it’s crucial to empower faculty to use it to its fullest.

Over the past school year, Union Schools has utilized "Ask Your Data" to enhance student support and monitor teacher efficacy. Principals and counselors have used custom pinboards to monitor low performing students and provide timely support.

This presentation will demonstrate how schools and/or districts should go about planning the implementation of Canvas, and how to train teachers to use it successfully with students.

Join us as we soar high to take a birds-eye view of how we redesigned our professional development program (Soaring with Online Learning) for flexibility to meet the needs of all university faculty (even those teaching in-person) by offering courses in Canvas Catalog and awarding stacked micro-credentials through learning pathways in Canvas Credentials.

As AI continues to shape higher education, institutions need effective ways to showcase innovative uses of AI in teaching, research, and administrative work. In this session, we will share our AI Showcase, a publicly available Canvas course designed to highlight faculty-led AI initiatives. The showcase features exemplary work submitted in two categories: course-specific applications and broader AI use cases, including administrative efficiency, creative scholarship, and research.

Transform online classroom with real-time feedback. Traditional evaluations are often too late for meaningful changes. We integrated brief, targeted pop-up surveys, using Canvas Impact, for immediate insights, allowing for rapid course adjustments and addressing issues before they significantly impact student learning outcomes. Future to include expanding surveys to faculty.

This session will showcase how Chesterfield County Public Schools leveraged Canvas to create an innovative, in-house solution for asynchronous credit recovery, reducing costs while expanding opportunities for at-risk seniors. The PACE program, utilizing vetted Virginia Department of Education content, offers two types of recovery courses: one for students repeating a course and one for first-time takers.

‘EdTech Management’ isn’t often thought of as required infrastructure in K-12 organizations–but with the average district utilizing 2,500+ unique edtech tools during the 2022-23 school year it’s becoming a critical consideration for budgeting and student success.

This session explores strategic approaches to utilizing the Canvas ecosystem to enhance professional development programs. The discussion will cover successful marketing strategies that have broadened participant engagement and expanded reach beyond traditional boundaries.

In this session, we’ll explore TEL Education’s innovative approach to structuring and managing multiple institutions efficiently within Canvas. We’ll provide a comprehensive overview of our SIS ID structure, subaccount framework, course versioning system, and section structure, highlighting how these elements work together to streamline course delivery, improve administrative efficiency, and enhance the learning experience. 

Supported by research about assessment best practices and chock full of useful tips and how-to information, this presentation highlights ways instructors of any discipline can use New Quizzes features with other Canvas tools in innovative ways to create more authentic, engaging, higher-cognitive-level assessments that promote learning—while still saving time grading large numbers of students.

During the session, the presenters will share live samples from the course modules. Presenters will share lessons learned and share feedback from administrators and staff that will be used to make revisions for year two.

This session will explore the use of Canvas for Continuing Education Courses, focusing on Canvas Catalog, Credentials, and Outcomes. Learn how to manage one comprehensive Canvas course segmented by grading terms, track outcomes for skills badging, and ensure faculty training for rubric tracking.

This training will cover a range of powerful tools and strategies to create an inclusive and adaptive learning environment. This presentation will discuss key elements of Course Design, Assignment Types, and tools that help teachers differentiate instruction within their course. Popular tools we’ll highlight include: Immersive Reader, Mastery Paths, Canvas Studio, New Quizzes, and more!