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Thank you for joining us for New and Next – whether in-person at Instructurecon or virtually. This post includes linked resources for the recent product releases covered in our Q3 2025 Instructure New & Next updates, 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.
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
- Performance and usability upgrades for Speedgrader (Canvas LMS)
- Differentiation Tags (Canvas LMS)
- Blog Post: Differentiation Tags: Smarter Student Support
- Canvas Release Notes (2025-06-21)
- Blog Post: Understanding Sections, Groups, and Differentiation Tags: What’s the Difference?
- Differentiation Tags - FAQs
- Student to-do widget (Canvas Student App)
- Discussion Checkpoints updates (Canvas LMS)
- Dyslexia-Friendly Font (Canvas LMS)
- Redesigned Files Page (Canvas LMS)
- Students in Need of Attention for Teachers (Intelligent Insights)
Powering all Stages of the Assessment Lifecycle
- Proctoring improvements in New Quizzes (Canvas LMS)
- Streamlined Assessment Content Creation and Management (Mastery)
- Mastery Connect Release Notes (2025-06-30)
- Blog Post: Powering all Stages of the Assessment Lifecycle
- Actionable Insights (Mastery)
- Mastery Connect Release Notes (2025-06-30) (includes 5 point scale)
- Mastery Connect Release Notes (2025-07-11) w/ home page and analytics TBA following release
- Blog Post: Mastery Actionable Insights: Putting student data where it matters most
- Spanish Student and Parent Experience (Mastery)
- Mastery Connect Release Notes (2025-06-30)
- Blog Post: Spanish Student and Family Experience: Making assessment more inclusive and accessible
- Ensure Consistent Standards Alignment from Day One (Mastery)
- Mastery Connect Release Notes (2025-06-30) (includes CMap +district approved cores)
- Mastery Connect Release Notes (2025-07-11) w/ bulk trackerTBA following release
- Blog Post: Ensure Consistent Alignment from Day 1—At Scale
- AI Enhancements (Mastery)
Partnering through complexity and change
- Archive and restore media (Canvas Studio)
Strengthening an open and effective edtech ecosystem
- Canvas Apps (Canvas LMS)
- Canvas Apps - FAQ
- Study Hall: Canvas and the Power of a Connected Ecosystem
- Blog Post: Canvas Apps: A smarter hub for discovering, managing, and monitoring LTI tools
- Customized message placement (Impact)
- Developer Documentation Portal
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