Our Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) Walkthroughs are ready to be used in your Impact dashboard! 

In January, I shared that we are implementing the New Quizzes API in REST and we have a dedicated team already working on the first iteration (Quiz Building). I’m excited to share the news on the progress we made so far. 

Credentials and customizable student pathways are becoming increasingly important to student success and emerging learning models. For our partner institutions who are using Canvas Credentials, Canvas Student ePortfolios, and Canvas Student Pathways, we want you to know that we, at Instructure, are committed to continuing to provide you, your educators, and your students with these powerful products designed to personalize the learning experience, while also working to innovate and evolve them.

Ideas & Themes has now been live in the Community for 41 days. We have received 77 new ideas, mapped 56 of those new ideas to themes, and identified 1 new theme from those idea submissions.

Our first voting window will be April 3 - 28, 2023.

If you've used Canvas Pages, please take the survey. 

Mastery Connect and the Mastery Item Banks provide educators with tools to build and administer classroom assessments and intuitively visualize student mastery of a standard. But what happens when states update their standards?

The day is fast approaching when customers can opt in to Canvas Data 2.  It’s been a major development effort and finally, the big day is the 18th of March. YEEEY. 🥳 Read on to learn more about this exciting news and what it means for your institution.

The March updates to the Instructure Roadmap are now live. Read more about the updates and get more details from the product managers. 

As of today, you can now see which roadmap items have been released and which ones will be ready for Summer 2023, as well as any features that may be updated.

We are expanding the scope of role/hierarchy-based access for sub-account admins.

We understand how eager you are for all of the exciting functionality coming to New Quizzes, especially regarding the functionality that allows for grading of single quiz items across all students, also known as Grade By Question. While we had initially planned to release this feature into production in Q1, we have decided to postpone the full release until Q2 to ensure its quality.

After adding video cutting in Studio, we are doubling down on content creation. On top of this, you may now change the caption size, its position, and watch any content in 1.25x to personalize your viewing experience. Come and kick the tires on our latest improvement!

In the last quarter a lot has happened with New Quizzes. For a more broad update and what’s coming next, please read Marissa’s post. If you are interested in RCE, the API, or the Item Analysis, you’ve come to the right place.

Our team has officially loaded all Identified Themes to Ideas and Themes for your review and idea submission is now available!

We see that the ratio of the devices running iOS 14 is relatively low (2.3%) and decreasing, therefore we decided to introduce changes regarding the minimum supported iOS version. The highest app versions which run on devices with iOS 14 are the following:

• Canvas Teacher: 1.20.0
• Canvas Student: 6.20.0
• Canvas Parent: 3.6.0

Our team has been anxiously awaiting the official release of the reimagined process formerly known as “Idea Conversations” (and we hope you have too!). I am happy to announce that Ideas & Themes is now live.

The February updates to the Instructure Roadmap are now live. Read more about these updates and hear from our product managers. 

Individual student paces and an improved design will be available by Q3. 

We're changing our 3 week cadence to 1 week - starting from February 6th, 2023.

We are excited to announce that by the end of Q1 2023, we will extend our language support with the Dutch language. The new translation will affect Canvas Student ePortfolios, Canvas Student Pathways, and the assessment side along with Canvas Program Assessment.

We are very excited to share that Canvas Data 2 has evolved from infancy into adolescence. We started last year in June with inputs and feedback from 13 Alpha customers from two regions and have grown to over 100 Beta customers around the world. The maturity will continue to accelerate as Canvas Data 2 is made publicly available in March. At full maturity, Canvas Data 2 will evolve to become a modern data access platform that will provide developers with efficient and flexible access to data from various Instructure products in bulk with high fidelity and low latency. 

Featured Delayed as of 2023-01-24

Latest update on New Quizzes Achievements in Q4 2022 and what we have planned for Q1 2023.

• Q4 Achievements
  • Speedgrader - Grade Updating Syncing
  • New Quizzes Outcomes in Learning Mastery Gradebook
  • Quiz Locking for New Quizzes in Blueprint courses
  • FITB in Word Banks with multiple answers
  • Allow students to clear selection of Multiple Choice Answers
• Q1 2023 Objectives
  
  • Grade By Question
  • Speedgrader Access
  • Outcomes Analysis report downloadable csv
  • Quiz Export
  • Support for Subaccounts

Reprioritizing work to focus on the most valuable enhancements. 

Quick update on where we are now and some key information how we'll upgrade Screencast-O-Matic’s current 32-bit version.

The Impact walkthroughs feature was launched in 2022 in beta. Since then, our teams have been working on improving the functionality and accessibility of walkthroughs in order to deliver the best experience for our customers. We wanted to give an update on how we have been progressing with our walkthrough functionalities. 

The Impact Product Roadmap has been updated with our latest plans for 2023.

Update (February 1):  

We are testing a fix in beta over the next few days which will include enabling New RCE for New Quizzes in beta. At this point we are not able to announce a timeline for when New RCE will be turned on again in production; however, we will continue to keep the Community updated as we make progress and share that date as soon as we can. 

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Unfortunately, we identified a bug that causes content within a quiz (course media, files, pages, etc), or a math equation to improperly copy over during a course copy if it was added to the quiz with the new RCE.  We want to make it clear that this only affects New Quiz content that was created after the new RCE was enabled for New Quizzes on December 17, 2022 and then copied to a new course.  

Important update on Authorize.net migration

We continue our efforts to develop the New Quizzes API and we made the decision to implement it in REST. For details, check out my post.