We are excited to announce that Differentiation Tags is now Generally Available! Over the past several months, Differentiation Tags has grown into a more powerful, flexible, and intuitive tool that is ready to be used at scale—thanks in large part to...

At Instructure, we're constantly working to enhance the tools you rely on every day. As part of that commitment, we’re excited to announce a significant upgrade to the core infrastructure powering our DAP Query API / CD2. This upgrade will require a ...

On November 15, 2025, we’re excited to make Canvas Portfolio generally available (GA) to all Canvas LMS customers at no additional cost. Canvas Portfolio makes it easier for educators to assess learning and for students to showcase their growth, all ...

New research indicates that Mastery Predictive Assessments consistently and accurately forecast students’ end-of-year outcomes in math, reading, and science, even as standards vary from state to state.

The Canvas Catalog integration with Salesforce now includes 28 datasets and over 300 data objects. Admins can track enrollments, progress, orders, and more directly in Salesforce, eliminating manual exports and improving real-time decision-making.

From Filler Badges to Real Achievements: Your pathways can now directly pull verified course progress from Canvas. Fast, automatic, and trusted.

You may have noticed that we are updating how we handle User Access Tokens. These changes have been made across the September and October deploys. I wanted to walk through all of these changes together and how they will improve institutions’ security...

In any school district, change is a constant. Staffing adjustments and shifts in teaching assignments can happen at any time during the year. When a new teacher takes over a class, it’s crucial that their digital tools and records reflect that change...

Recover enrollments with Abandoned Cart Nudges in Canvas Catalog. Automatically follow up with learners who leave before checkout and bring them back. Simple to set up, personalized to convert, and designed to grow your programs with less effort.

Following our recent announcement about the changes to the Canvas Page Views feature, we are excited to share a major update specifically for our developer community and partners: The new PageView History API is now available in Beta! This new asynch...

Discover the key takeaways from Berkeley College's Customer Discovery Session, where administrators, educators, and students shared their insights on the teaching and learning experience. Learn how their focus on simplicity and consistency will shape...

Mark your calendars! Sharing early communication about a few changes we’ve made to our Canvas deploy and release schedule.

Empower Your Staff with Targeted Analytics

Help shape Ask Your Data’s new Context Library — a way to teach the AI your institution’s language and priorities. Take our 2-minute survey!

As earlier we shared our announcement about the upcoming rebrand of Canvas Credentials to Parchment Award Digital Badges. That blogpost outlined the vision for unifying credentialing under the Parchment Award family and the production go-live date of...

Updates and Resources on Parchment Digital Badges

  New in Impact: Course-Restricted Messaging! Now admins can target messages to specific courses, ensuring the right people see the right message, in the right place.

The Mastery College Prep Assessment now mirrors the redesigned ACT, giving students realistic practice in less time while boosting confidence and readiness. Discover how these updates set learners up for success.

We’re continuing our work to improve the instructor assignment experience in Canvas, and we’d love your input.

We are excited to announce Listing Lifecycle Management in Canvas Catalog. This new feature gives administrators a powerful way to manage outdated listings without deleting valuable data.

We're rolling out some important updates to how Page Views are handled in Canvas, affecting both the user interface and our public APIs. These changes are designed to improve performance, accessibility, and data management, while also changing how pa...

Make sure new Observer accounts don’t slip through the cracks this term—learn how this prompt surfaces unverified emails before they become roadblocks.

The Block Content Editor is coming — shaped by the voices of educators every step of the way. This new editing experience, powered by AI, makes creating engaging, accessible course content simpler and more attainable than ever before.

We’re developing Co-Labs, our new interactive product roadmap experience – and we’re looking for engaged customers to join the pilot. If you’re excited to share meaningful feedback and influence what comes next, this is your chance to get early acces...

At Flinders University, our Instructure Product leadership team had the privilege of coming together with educators, administrators, and students from across APAC. The conversations were filled with creativity, commitment, and collaboration. They rem...

Last back-to-school season, we introduced a redesigned analytics experience in Mastery Connect, giving educators more intuitive dashboards, advanced filters, and the ability to save customized reports. That launch was just the beginning. Since then, ...

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...