This month, Ask Your Data gets smarter with new ways to build on pinned insights, branch off conversations, and keep your analysis organized—so you can explore deeper, faster, and with more focus.

Canvas Catalog now includes a dedicated Instructor field, allowing admins to highlight who leads each course. Improve transparency, build trust, and help learners make more informed enrollment decisions.

New criteria additions are available in Course Readiness that verify Due dates, Gradebook usage and how the course Home page is set.

Our commitment to preserving the learning experience remains unwavering. When we launched our latest NPS survey, our north star was clear: do not disrupt learning. We set broad-stroke parameters with care but received feedback that these parameters f...

The Intelligent Insights team recently convened in Spokane, where they met with a diverse group of customers. These customers generously shared their experiences and ideas, offering valuable feedback on potential solutions. This collaborative exchang...

When learners view a badge, they now see the Canvas Catalog course that awards it, making the path from interest to action easier than ever.

Discover your institution’s complete skills story, in one place, so you can design better badges faster, show their value and prove they matter.

At Instructure, we know that time is the most valuable commodity in K12 schools. That’s why we’re putting the power of IgniteAI to work in Mastery Connect, helping educators efficiently gain actionable, accurate insights into their students’ learning...

We’re excited to unveil the enhanced item bank experience in Mastery Connect — built around your feedback to deliver a faster, smarter, and more intuitive experience. Whether you’re authoring new content or searching for just the right assessment ite...

We’re enhancing the scaling, scoring, and reporting model for Mastery Predictive Assessments to strengthen our alignment with the latest research-based practices and further lay the groundwork for even more powerful reporting capabilities in the futu...

Canvas Catalog now meets the highest global accessibility standard (WCAG 2.2 AA), making it fully usable for all learners.

This blog post is part of the Mastery Connect back to school series, where we highlight the feature enhancements and updates to prepare you to maximize your upcoming school year.  Also check out our Back to School Tips & Tricks: Teachers: Tips for a ...

Manually setting up LTI tools can be slow and error-prone, especially when it involves copying keys and exchanging configuration files. That’s why we’re excited to announce that Dynamic Registration for LTI 1.3 is coming soon to Canvas Credentials (s...

Gain real-time insights and send timely messages across Catalog without writing a single line of code. Discover how this integration helps institutions improve enrollment, support learners, and drive completion.

Learn about the new integration between Canvas Studio and YouTube’s Player for Education!

Take control of your institution’s video content and support a smoother start to the semester.

Last week approximately 2,000 Canvas LMS users traveled to beautiful Spokane, WA for our annual InstructureCon event. During the week, we were granted an opportunity to sit down with several of our K12 and Higher Education users for a Customer Discov...

Canvas Catalog’s new Deadline Nudging feature brings automation to student engagement. This release focuses on deadline-based reminders, with more nudge types coming soon to support a complete learner journey from enrollment to completion.

In this spotlight edition, a creative prompt transforms outcome levels into decaying average scores -- offering a smarter, time-aware view of student progress and how learning unfolds over time.

From AI that supports classroom creativity and efficiency, to new ways of connecting skills to real-world opportunities, everything we’re building is designed to serve all sides of the learning journey. With reliable, scalable technology working in t...

We’re excited to share that Ask Your Data just got even more powerful — you can now query, analyze, and surface insights from weblogs directly within the product!

Now teachers can identify and reach out to students who might be struggling.

Canvas users may now choose to use a dyslexia friendly font.

A cleaner, more accessible, and easier-to-use Files page launched in Canvas on July 19! With improved navigation, bulk file actions, better accessibility, and a modern design, managing course and user files just got simpler. Prefer the classic view? ...

We're excited to announce major enhancements to LearnPlatform, designed to streamline your product vetting processes, improve data collection, and make your administrative tasks significantly easier. These updates focus on forms and workflows!

A big leap forward for Canvas Credentials Pathways: Issuers can now define Manual Experiences as step requirements - empowering you to recognize learning that happens outside the screen. Leadership seminars, fieldwork, hackathons - real-world learnin...

We’re upgrading our AWS Aurora MySQL engine to improve system performance, reliability, and long-term compatibility. This post outlines what you need to know ahead of time.

In today’s crowded edtech landscape, integration quality matters. Educators and administrators are under pressure to deliver seamless digital learning experiences without compromising on usability, data privacy, or security. That’s why we’re proud to...

This new spotlight series highlights real prompts from Ask Your Data users -- shared to spark ideas, inspire new use cases, and grow a community of data-driven educators.

Last week, we hosted a K-12 Assessment Product Discovery Session (CDS) in San Antonio, bringing together curriculum and assessment leaders from districts across the country. This in-person event provided a valuable opportunity for participants to eng...