To streamline the user experience and create consistency across all Canvas features, the dedicated “attach” button in Discussions and Announcements will be removed on July 19th, 2025. Users can continue to upload images, videos, and files via the RCE...

When faced with 30+ achievement types to choose from, most users… chose none. Achievement types in the open badges standard were designed to help credentialing feel more meaningful and precise—but they ended up overwhelming people instead. Now, that ...

The Canvas Credentials LTI 1.3 upgrade is coming soon—starting May 12. We’re taking extra care to ensure a smooth, gradual transition so institutions are supported every step of the way.

We've heard your feedback! You’ve been asking for clearer course data in Admin Analytics and Intelligent Insights. We're excited to announce a change that will improve your experience.

Save hours of admin work and scale your Catalog with confidence using the new Copy Listing feature.

Over the past few months, we've implemented several UI and UX improvements to the Discussion Summaries feature preview, driven by the valuable feedback you've shared with us.

Students may have specific learning requirements for assessments that are essential for their success. To support this, we are offering the ability to enable tools and accommodations for individual students to provide a fair and inclusive assessment ...

Lessons we've learned from you and exciting updates coming this year.

Customer Discovery Session takeaways from March 26th at Instructure headquarters. Members of the Internet2 consortium met with Instructure R&D teams to discuss edtech management and maximizing effectiveness. 

Help learners find the value they’re looking for, faster.

Discussion Checkpoints Now Available at the Sub-Account Level

What if mapping out a learning journey felt seamless, accessible, and flexible? We’ve heard your feedback, and we’re making big changes to Canvas Credentials Pathways to help you build learning experiences that truly work for all users. This is just ...

We want to inform you about an upcoming scheduled maintenance that will enhance our system’s performance and security. While we aim to make this transition as seamless as possible, there may be a temporary disruption during the maintenance window.

Impact now includes Global Search, a powerful new feature designed to help Impact Admins quickly locate and access relevant information across the application. No more digging through menus—just type, search, and go! 

We recently hosted a Customer Discovery Session with R1 institutions at our Salt Lake City HQ, gathering valuable feedback on the Canvas LMS roadmap, assessment tools, and upcoming features like STEM item types and Differentiation Tags. This blog hig...

Smarter course suggestions, powered by real data. The new Recommendations Engine in Canvas Catalog helps learners discover frequently bought together courses, right when they’re making enrollment decisions.

We recently participated in our first Customer Discovery Session of 2025 in Lakeland, Florida, where educators shared invaluable feedback on AI, accessibility, and user experience. Discover how their voices are shaping Canvas LMS.

Discover what’s top of mind for today’s career learning leaders—from skills-based frameworks to AI-powered efficiency—in our latest customer discovery session recap.

Ideas, Customer Discovery Sessions, and Early Adopter groups are exciting, but our efforts go beyond that. Here’s how we’ve been further strengthening our partnership:

We heard you! Many of our customers expressed the need for a safe, dedicated space to explore new features, validate workflows, and ensure smooth adoption before updates go live. In response, we’ve launched Beta environments for Canvas Credentials—gi...

Ensure reliable and secure assessments by shuffling answer choices on Mastery assessments.

We’re excited to announce an update to the context_external_tools table in the Canvas namespace of the DAP Query API. On 31st of March in 2025, we will be adding a new column: unified_tool_id: A unique identifier for the external tool, helping Canvas...

With over 60 Mississippi districts using the Mastery View Predictive Assessments, Mississippi educators need confidence in their accuracy. A new study confirms that the Predictive Assessments are strongly aligned with the Mississippi Academic Assessm...

Ask Your Data now lets you share Pinboards with other users of the product, enabling Canvas admin teams to collaborate seamlessly, align on insights and work smarter together.

We’re excited to announce the release of DAP CLI 1.4.0, which significantly boosts efficiency and ease of use by introducing multi-table operations. This release addresses a major customer pain point by allowing operations on all or selected tables w...

Is Your Content Ready for the Dark Side? Why Teachers Need to Think About Dark Mode

Discover how incorporating validated items in the Predictive Assessments enhances accuracy, strengthens instructional insights, and ensures a balanced approach to assessment—without adding extra burden to students.

This quarter, we’ve made exciting enhancements to New Quizzes, from improved accessibility to expanded functionality. But the highlight? Our brand-new Student Analysis Report—a game-changer for data-driven teaching! This powerful tool gives instructo...

We’re launching another round of invitations to the closed beta group to gather feedback around automated captioning, rolling transcript, private student notes and a lot more—complete the form by March 5th!

A huge thank you to everyone who participated in our recent survey about Discussion Checkpoints! Your feedback is invaluable, and we're excited to share how it's shaping this feature. Based on your input, we're making some key improvements that will ...