Test release schedule is moving to the Monday following our production release at 3:00 pm MT with our July release cycle. 

We are excited to announce a groundbreaking update in Canvas Credentials that allows you to customize your issuing organization specifically for LinkedIn shares, enabling the power of personalized badge sharing on the world's largest professional network.

Q3 2023 (and beyond) roadmap updates happening at the end of July

Canvas is changing its LTI 1.3 OIDC Auth domain to align with security practices and to support the new LTI 1.3 Platform Storage specification - which lets LTI tools still function even when browsers disable cross-site 3rd-party cookies. LTI 1.3 tool developers, read on for an implementation guide and the full status of Platform Storage support. These are not breaking changes.

We're thrilled to unveil our new feature in Canvas Credentials that will revolutionize the way you capture and describe credentials. Say goodbye to limitations and hello to custom badge properties with multi-select input types! Get ready to unlock a whole new level of detail and efficiency.

The April updates to the Instructure Roadmap are now live. Get an overview of the adjustments, then dive into linked articles for more information. 

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

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 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.

Featured Delayed as of 2023-01-24

We love our customers and are working hard to deliver the features you are asking for!

Canvas Inbox Refactor to include the ability to add/include Observers, move to Production to be delayed to December 17th.

The Default to New Quizzes feature option sets New Quizzes as the default quizzing engine and removes the ability to create Classic Quizzes, however access will not be removed for viewing content or data for Classic Quizzes.

Announcing a new feature preview available in Canvas courses. Read on to learn about Course Pacing and join us in the Course Pacing User Group to provide feedback and stay up to date on future developments.

Next Catalog improvement: Bulk Purchases and Enrollments

The Catalog Team spent the beginning of the year tweaking and fine-tuning the Shopping Cart and improving receipts. The team has also started building a new feature: Bulk Purchases and Enrollments. This feature enables individuals to purchase multiple seats in a single listing and distribute those seats by inviting students to enroll in that listing for free. This feature can also be used to enroll multiple students in free listings Users can view historical payments and enrollments by accessing the Purchases and Enrollments page from the Catalog menu.

Similar to the Shopping Cart feature rollout, the Bulk Purchases and Enrollments feature will be released in multiple phases to Beta, but in one batch to Production. 

A new button will soon be added to the Details (Listing) page to allow institutions ample time to adjust their custom CSS/JS code. In the beginning, the button will not work and I apologize for this limitation, but we would like to make sure that institutions have time to adjust any customizations, if necessary. Our goal is to have this new feature finished by the end of Q1 2022 and have the first Beta release next week. 

Please stay tuned, I will update this thread after each Beta release. 

UPDATE: We will need a little bit more time to complete all the requirements for bulk purchase and enrollment so it's not going to be finished by the end of Q1. I will keep this post up-to-date and let you know about the upcoming Beta release dates. 

UPDATE2: May 23 we released another major part of bulk purchase and enrollment to Beta. We are going to have a few more Beta releases before releasing the new functionality to Production. 

When our customers file support cases that get triaged as bug tickets, some are fixed while others are “shelved”, hoping engineering can get to them later. We’re refining our processes to make clear decisions more quickly and keep you informed about the status of your bug reports.

If you’ve watched one of our recent New Feature Screencasts, you may be seeing a few familiar faces—and some new ones, too. Find out what’s changed and why!

The survey results are in, and you’ve told us you’re looking for an easier way to see what’s changing in Canvas. Our engineering teams are working on an initiative to simplify on their end, but until then, we’re making a change on September 17 to streamline the Community experience.

Fixed bugs have been included in the deploy notes since, well—the creation of the deploy notes. And for the last few years, the “Known Issues” board in the Community has only included notable bugs, which didn’t always align with the bugs posted in the deploy notes. 

It’s time to evolve our process for greater clarity, and this time we’re putting our focus into our Known Issues board to give you more timely updates when you need them.

The Release Notes user interface (UI) is our first step in improving communication about default Canvas features, but it’s just the beginning.

If you’re reading this, you’re probably subscribed to the entire Canvas TLDR Product Blog. Well, subscriptions as you know them are about to change.

[UPDATE 18 MARCH 2021—The content in this post has been adjusted from user feedback (thank you!) Stay tuned for revisions being implemented in the 2021-04-17 Canvas Release Notes, which will be published on March 22.]

Effective March 22, we are changing how release notes comments are managed to provide a better experience for everyone. 

What do you know about subscriptions or notifications in the Community? View a summary of key notifications that you may be interested in using.

Our teams have several projects still in progress related to our COVID-19 response. These features may continue to be released weekly when available through May 2020. If no features are ready to be released on a given weekend, no Ready Release will take place.

Way back in 2014—which in Canvas time feels like an eon ago—product and engineering devised the idea of a feature option, which was a way to help each Canvas admin manage larger features that may disrupt the workflow if included as part of a regular release cycle. In the Account Settings and Course Settings pages, this new concept was given its own tab where most included features could be managed at any time. Depending on functionality, features may be able to be allowed or turned on at the account, sub-account, course, and user levels. 

Last November we posted a proposal for Canvas release changes in 2019. Our proposal intends to improve the quality of Canvas releases, resolve bugs more quickly, and create more predictable releases with a more manageable pace. Community feedback proved highly supportive, and our engineering teams have continued to make progress with necessary adjustments. Thanks for your patience as we’ve been working out the specifics to share with you.

Last week we made a change in the Canvas Community to update all Arc references to Canvas Studio. Some of you have already seen this change. A more official announcement is being unveiled by our marketing team in a few weeks. Although we can't formally steal their thunder, we can share with you what's coming!

Every day, we come to work with one purpose in mind: we want to help you achieve your goals and find success within the life-changing field that is education. Canvas is the LMS that makes teaching and learning easier. And every day we want to give you our very best, no matter what it takes.