Resource Roundup from Instructure New & Next | Q2 2025 (K12)

[DeepaPrasad]

Thank you for attending the Q2 Instructure New & Next Webinar. This post includes linked resources for the recent product releases covered in our Q2 2025 Instructure New & Next webinar for K12, organized by theme. These resources have been created to help you better manage change and understand the impact and benefit of new releases. 

We’ll continue to update this post as more resources become available.

• You can access the recordings, Q&A reports, and slides from the webinar at the event's Instructure Live page.

Even if you didn’t join the session, we hope this aggregated list of resources helps you effectively communicate updates to the product experiences across your school or district. The following are themes of our product delivery, organized for your benefit: 

Innovating for the Teaching & Learning Experience

• Discussion Checkpoints (Canvas LMS)
• Blog post: Discussion Checkpoints: Update Based on Your Feedback!
• Updates to Canvas media player (Canvas LMS and Canvas Studio)
• Blog: Updates to Our Media Player 
• Release Notes: Canvas Release Notes (2025-04-19), Studio Release Notes (2025-04-19) 
• Updates to Lucid integration (Canvas LMS)
• Blog Post: Updates to Lucid Integration
• Collaborative Pinboards (Intelligent Insights)
• Blog post: Pinboard Sharing is Here! Share Insights with Ask Your Data 

Powering all Stages of the Assessment Cycle

• Shuffle answer order (Mastery Connect)
• Blog Post: Shuffle Answer Choices
• Release Notes: Mastery Connect Release Notes (2025-02-27) 
• Individual student accommodations (Mastery Connect)
• Blog Post: Individual Student Accommodations
• Release Notes: Mastery Connect Release Notes (2025-03-28) 

 Leveraging AI for Educator Efficiency and Student Success

• Mastery AI-Generated Items for Quick Reassess and Mastery AI-Suggested Alignments for Quiz Conversions
• Reach out to your CSM if you’re interested in participating in this Early Adopter Program.
• Join us in Spokane for InstructureCon 2025 this summer for more AI announcements!

[GideonWilliams]

You introduce digital portfolios as part of this K12 aimed webinar but there are currently no management tools within the portfolio that allow effective safeguarding and control over who has access to the pages outside of schools!!!

There is a different set of criteria needed for K12 schools above and beyond post K12.

Perhaps future updates should be in support of these or at least in consideration of these? For example, allowing a badging solution for students under 13 that is not tied to Open Badging.