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.

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.

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.

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.

How do you meet the diverse needs of all your learners? With the transformative potential of modern classrooms, how do you use technology in purposeful ways to get you to the core of what learning is about - connection, interaction and relationships?

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.

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.

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.

Discover how to revolutionize online professional development through strategic Canvas course design that drives authentic learner engagement and implementation of learning objectives. 

By leveraging Canvas to support the whole learner, students can gain comfort and confidence in their school life and learning paths, freeing them up to focus on more personal things. Canvas can be structured to help them organize their learning and navigate their growing responsibilities.

What makes a “good teacher” in the eyes of first-year undergraduates? This session dives into a fascinating case study viewed through the lens of the TPACK model. Discover how students’ perceptions challenged traditional ideas and added unexpected dimensions to the model. Join us to explore why these findings matter more than ever and how they can inform teaching practices.

Canvas is more than just a Learning Management System for coursework—it is a powerful tool for communication, collaboration, and engagement beyond the traditional classroom.

This session dives into practical ways to leverage Canvas tools, including prerequisites, data, and requirements, to personalize learning and track student progress. Attendees will learn to effectively utilize feedback mechanisms within Canvas to enhance instruction and student understanding. Whether you're new to Canvas or looking to refine your approach, you'll leave with practical tips to simplify digital learning and enhance instruction for all students.

This session will explore how CVTC implements Ed Tech Academy, measures its impact on student success rates, and empowers faculty to present their course transformations during professional development events. Join us to discover strategies for implementing a similar initiative at your institution.

This session showcases DeVry's groundbreaking implementation of Praxis AI's human-centered digital twin technology. Unlike traditional reactive AI assistants, DeVry's approach creates context-aware agentic professors that proactively observe student behavior, determine appropriate tactics for each situation, and autonomously engage learners through Canvas.

We will share implementation journey so far, our successes and challenges, how it has already proven a valuable tool, and how we see it as a vital asset in our future quality assurance, by leveraging data and AI and thus supporting staff and students and fostering culture of continuous improvement. This holistic approach ensures that we can provide high-quality education and meet accreditation standards effectively.

In this interactive, fast-paced session, attendees will engage in a unique "speed dating" format designed to promote peer collaboration and idea exchange about the Canvas learning management system.

The California State University (CSU) system has taken a bold step in revolutionizing its professional development programs by integrating Canvas LMS with Canvas Credentials.

In this session, we will share our vision for the future of online education and discuss how we’ve reimagined online healthcare education by utilizing real-time learner data to enhance student engagement, improve outcomes, and trigger timely interventions.

In this session, we’ll walk through our process—from identifying critical needs to securing funding, partnering with Georgetown University experts, and executing a marketing strategy that resulted in a fully enrolled inaugural cohort. 

The Modern Classrooms Model combines blended learning, self-pacing, and mastery-based learning with a focus on responding to every student's needs. Leveraging the tools within Canvas (and Mastery) provide a path forward to educators looking to bring more standard-focused, data driven instruction into their classrooms.

This workshop provides practical tools and ideas for teachers, instructional designers, curriculum developers, and administrators to create more effective and efficient learning for all students, regardless of ability.

Discover the transformative potential of Google for Education’s partnership with Instructure and learn how it can enhance your courses. This presentation demonstrates how Google’s AI tools, when integrated with the Canvas LMS, improve EdTech teaching and learning at a large public university.

At the University of Birmingham, UK, we have partnered with Canvas as our VLE provision since 2013. As our usage has evolved it has become the central platform for our ecosystem, with additional tools incorporated for assessment in STEM, lecture capture, search, and collaboration.

What does it truly mean to design accessible learning experiences—and how can we move beyond compliance to create inclusive, engaging content for every learner? Join as Katie Novak, internationally recognized expert in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and inclusive practices and Jody Sailor, Sr. Director of Academic Strategy and Innovation at Instructure, sit down for an in-depth conversation about what it takes to build courses that are accessible by design.

Roadside Attraction: We will be presenting a whirlwind tour of Spokane Colleges' Online Student Success Coaching platform in Canvas.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of higher education, effective change management is critical for academic technologies. 

Accessibility isn't a feature. It’s a foundation. In this cross-functional panel, employees from across Instructure will share how accessibility is deeply embedded in our products, services, and culture. 

The Business School Roundtable is a forum dedicated to empowering new and experienced Canvas users in achieving their academic and strategic goals within the unique business school environment.