Great decisions start with clear insights. That’s why we built Intelligent Insights — a product designed to help you navigate your education data with confidence, whether you’re on the front lines of teaching and learning, behind the scenes supporting the infrastructure or driving strategy across your entire institution.
We’re excited to share more about where we’re headed, how we’re supporting all types of data users, and why Intelligent Insights is here for you as your needs evolve.
A Comprehensive Approach to Analytics
While every institution is unique, many face similar challenges when it comes to making the most of their data. That’s why Intelligent Insights combines curated, semi-curated, and self-service analytics into one flexible experience. Whether you need comprehensive, in-depth analysis or want to dive deep into a specific, ad hoc question, we’ve got you covered.
🔍 Curated insights: Focused and Action-Oriented for Positive Outcomes
At the heart of Intelligent Insights are Instructure-curated analytics modules — purpose-built, actionable dashboards designed to address some of the most frequent and high-impact use cases institutions face. These ready-to-use solutions help you quickly move from insight to action, surfacing key trends and enabling timely, informed decision-making.
Today, we offer two core modules:
- Students in Need of Attention, which helps identify learners who may require additional support and provide early intervention
- Course Readiness, which ensures courses are fully prepared before, during and throughout the term
But this is just the start. We understand institutions face a wide range of challenges, and we’re committed to expanding our curated offerings with more focused, use-case-driven analytics modules that reflect the priorities and pain points that matter most. Our aim is not only to report on the past — but to give you clarity on what’s ahead, so you can plan with confidence and drive meaningful change.
🧠 Self-Service Exploration: Flexible Tool for Custom, Deeper Analysis
For those times when you want to explore your own questions, Intelligent Insights includes Ask Your data – a powerful, AI-powered interface that makes navigating your Canvas data more intuitive than ever.
Built on generative AI and a large language model (LLM), Ask Your Data helps you surface custom insights, spot patterns, and visualize trends as they emerge. It’s designed for ad-hoc exploration and tailored analysis, giving you the flexibility to work with your data in the way that best fits your team and your goals – all in a secure environment where user data stays private.
📌 Guided Insights: Custom, Shareable, and Scaled
Some insights fall right in between curated and self-service — and that’s where Pinboards come in. Built using our self-service AI tool, Ask Your Data, Pinboards are flexible, custom dashboards created by your institution, now with the power to share across teams. This means a data-savvy admin can create a custom Pinboard and make it available to others — turning one-off reports into reusable, organization-wide insights.
It’s a powerful way to scale your internal knowledge and foster a shared understanding of what’s happening across your learning environment.
Built for Your Long-Term Success
Intelligent Insights isn’t just a set of dashboards — it’s a key part of Instructure’s long-term vision to empower every institution to be truly insights-driven. In today’s complex learning environments, timely, actionable data isn’t a luxury — it’s a necessity. Institutions that can turn information into insight are better equipped to support student success, improve teaching and learning, and drive meaningful change.
Looking ahead, we’re committed to growing Intelligent Insights on all fronts. We’re expanding our curated modules to cover more high-impact use cases, enhancing self-service flexibility, and continuously improving the performance and safety of our AI and LLMs in a safe and controlled manner.
Together, these efforts will ensure Intelligent Insights remains a powerful, evolving product — helping your institution make confident, data-informed decisions now and into the future. We're dedicated to helping you unlock the full potential of your education data.
