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 ...

Families want to know that when their kids are at school, they're with teachers who care about their overall well-being. But research on engagement suggests that guardian-teacher relationships also play a large role in long-term student success.

In today’s classrooms, our students are navigating a whirlwind of digital notifications, social pressures, and competing demands. That’s why distraction-free learning environments are so powerful! They give students the space to focus, connect, and b...

Resources to learn more about the latest updates to Instructure products. 

A celebration of sort. Not my birthday (that milestone is way past!) but my 50th post on the Canvas Community. I thought I would treat it like a birthday and give a list of the presents I want Canvas to get me going forward....

A video presentation on how I went about creating a Connect 4 style game using Canva code

Taking the Treasure Hunt quiz idea, giving it a simple flip and exploring more of the Quiz settings..

This week I have been running some afternoon CPD sessions for staff on using Canva Code and Canvas. In this post is a summary of how I have been doing this and how it links to a board game I played as a kid...

Some thoughts on digital tools but an opportunity to share some amazing work done on Canva Codes platform from a colleague @YunRuTan 

Ready to supercharge your learning and strategic planning? Our new quarterly PL&S newsletter is here, packed with fresh training offerings, special customer events, and strategic implementation insights. Don't miss the latest updates and opportunitie...

Make engaging interactive learning tools just by writing a prompt and see how easy it is to then embed in a Canvas page...

How long does it take you to create a Canvas Quiz? I used Huynh Bao Thien's (@thienhb) extraordinary Docx to Canvas Quiz generator in combination with a LLM to create multiple choice quizzes with feedback based on Blooms Taxonomy scale in minutes.  R...

QuestionWell is the first free AI tool that I have seen that creates multiple choice quizzes that can be exported as QTI files to Canvas New Quizzes

Physics Feud is another vibe coded game based on Family Fortunes (UK) or Family Feud (US). This is a teacher led (the compere) game aimed at getting students teams to identify key features. It works really well if you like a bit of performance and th...

Canva Code, Gemini Canva, Chat GPT and all other tutor chatbots (when you ask them to) will happily create a web page to display something you have made. Why can they not be displayed in Canvas to use as a resource when the platform ALREADY has this ...

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...

At Instructure, we believe that learning never ends! As your Customer Success team, we want to help you stay organized and on track with our newly updated Field Guide for Admins. This guide provides a clear roadmap for managing the Instructure Learni...

Designing a Badged Treasure Hunt for STEAM week - The Legends of STEAM

The ability to embed a Canva resource in Canva brings a whole new set of ideas, never mind making amazing pages!

This post includes linked resources for the recent product releases covered in our Q1 2025 Instructure New & Next webinars, organized by theme. These resources have been created to help you better manage change and understand the impact and benefit o...

Starting the next term looking at AI with some links to Canvas.

Kick off the new year with tools to simplify assessment and elevate student outcomes! This video and one-pager highlight key features of Mastery’s end-of-year enhancements, designed to help educators streamline grading, track growth, and support stud...

We've created an adoption kit, just for Educators!

We've created an adoption kit, just for Admins!

A prompt that seems to work quite well for making your own Rubrics to import to Canvas

Another use of Chat GTP to create a much-needed feature to help with a stage in a Design Thinking project.

Creating interactive webpages and embedding them in Canvas pages to make resources that encourage group discussions...

This K12-focused one-page overview provides a summary of our seamless integration of Khanmigo Teacher Tools directly within Canvas. This feature is available to all US-based Canvas customers to simplify AI for educators and generate high-quality, tru...

This post includes linked resources for the recent product releases covered in our September 2024 Instructure New and Next webinars, organized by theme. We’ll continue to update this post as more resources become available. After the Instructure New ...

Trying to make the Assign To feature work for us. Problems with assigning to individual features and Modules, individual students and sections. Read on....