Resource Roundup from Instructure New & Next | October 2025 (K-12)

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This post summarizes the product updates covered in our Instructure New & Next webinars held on October 15 for our K-12 customers in North America. The webinar covered both features that are available now and features that are coming very soon. This time we organized the updates more clearly by product, based on your feedback! This post aggregates the resources for all updates that are currently available. Even if you didn’t join the session, we hope this list of resources helps you effectively communicate updates to the product experiences across your institution.
You can access the webinar recordings here: https://www.instructure.com/events/webinar/new-and-next
You can access the webinar slides here:
- K12 webinar slides (posted after the webinar)
IgniteAI
With the help of our Early Adopter Program participants, we’re marching toward general availability for these and other IgniteAI features later this quarter and early in 2026. To stay updated on progress for IgniteAI, complete the form at http://instructure.com/igniteai/stay-in-the-know.
Canvas LMS
The most recent and soon-to-release Canvas LMS enhancements improve the LMS experience for learners, instructors, and administrators. The Canvas team has been focused on simplified learner experiences, improving assessment and feedback mechanisms for instructors, and course, content, and access management enhancements for both instructors and administrators, to name a few. Here’s what we covered:
- Course Progression for Modules (Coming to Feature Preview)
- Availability and Exceptions for Canvas Apps (In Early Adopter Program)
- Plagiarism Detection (In Early Adopter Program)
- New Quizzes Surveys (Coming to GA)
- Speedgrader Improvements for Mobile (Available Now)
- Canvas Portfolios (In Feature Preview, Coming to GA)
- Canvas Career (In Product Preview)
- Product Preview Interest Form
- Canvas Career Webinar, November 5 (registration link coming soon)
Beyond the LMS
Instructure’s add-on products and cross-product efforts make the teaching and learning experience smarter, more engaging, and more accessible. We shared updates that provide a more engaging and secure video content consumption experience for learners, a more informative and supported enrollment process, enhanced visibility and collaboration within your teaching and learning insights, and all of this is to be accessed through simplified and streamlined authentication across our products. Here’s what we covered:
- Modernizing the Platform:
- Canvas Studio: Distraction-free, secure, and accessible viewing
- Studio Release Notes
- One Pager: YouTube Player for Education
- Guide: How to Migrate Embedded YouTube Videos in Canvas to Studio Content
- FAQs: YouTube Player for Education
- Blog Post: Canvas Studio with YouTube Player for Education
- Press Release: Canvas Studio with YouTube Player for Education
- Intelligent Insights: Enhanced capabilities and new use cases
- Blog Post: Ask Your Data Improvements
- Blog Post: Separate Permission for SINOA and CR
- Blog Post: Additional Course Readiness Criterion
- WCAG Compliance Achieved (VPAT coming soon)
- Compliance Reporting- Title IV (In Early Adopter Program)
- Canvas Catalog: Added data and visibility, plus student reminders
- Release Notes: Instructor Field
- Release Notes: Enriched Synced Salesforce Data
- Blog Post: Abandoned Cart Nudges
- Canvas Credentials > Parchment Award Digital Badges
- Blog Post: Rebrand Information Parchment Award Digital Badges (Formerly Canvas Credentials)
- Blog Post: Skills Hub and Menu
- Blog Post: Pathways Updates
- LearnPlatform (All available now - Updates to Release Notes coming soon)
- Updates to Provider Apps
- New Application Summary Page for Products
- Workflows Summary Page from Management>Products
- Accessibility Updates to Login and Emails
- Badge Updates
- Impact
Mastery
The Mastery team has been focused on enhancements to support an even more intuitive, inclusive, and insight-driven assessment experience for all. If you’re interested in learning about how Mastery can support your balanced system of assessment, join us at our upcoming webinar on October 29th. Register here. Here’s what we covered during New & Next:
- Release Notes: Item Authoring in More Languages
- Release Notes: Change Tracker Ownership
- State & National Assessment Insights (In Early Adopter Program)
- Item Authoring Assistance (In Early Adopter Program)
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