The Google team is releasing several updates to the Google Assignments LTI 1.3 tool over the next several months.

The Canvas mobile applications just like any other application (even web pages in the web browser) store data on the local device for various reasons. Mostly for performance and speed benefits, but even distance learning considerations can play a rol...

A quick status update on how's the New Quizzes API development going. 

The today released Media Insights page is not only a redesigned view with some fancy new metrics. It is the foundation to better understand correlation between media usage and student success.

Any virtual or automated chat should exist to enhance the customer experience, not diminish it

Ever wondered why internationalization is essential? Come and hear from our New global PM and her focus on improving localization and translations as part of her role.     

Icon Maker is coming to the Canvas RCE!

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 Enroll...

We’re continuing to make adjustments to Item Banks based upon your feedback. During our user interviews for migration of Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes, it became clear we need ways to improve the experience when there are many pages of Item Banks. 

Announcing a new feature preview available in Canvas gradebook. Read on to learn about our new enhanced gradebook filters and how to enable the preview, then join us in the Gradebook Filters User Group to provide feedback and stay up to date on futur...

We’re adding the capability to control calculation methods and rating levels for individual outcomes in Improved Outcome Management!

Have you ever wondered why some states have more than one publication? What standards is my state in the process of revising? Does my state have Financial Literacy standards? Or maybe you want to know how standards are related to other standards. Rea...

When you open the Canvas mobile apps, they keep you logged in, even if you put the app to the background or close it completely. This behavior adds convenience for the users and is typically what we expect from a mobile application in 2022. But many ...

First, a big THANK YOU to all who have completed the CD2 survey. I was really excited to see how this number has been growing day by day, a number that shows a great interest in what we are building. The amount of responses will guide us in the produ...

Course description text is cut off the home screen when dynamic text is enabled. (Impact on user: Users may not be able to see the text that describes the course where they are enrolled. This could be confusing for users with neurological or intellec...

It has always been possible to enter “Special Characters” in Canvas, but there has never been a “Special Character” button. So how does it work if there is no dedicated button?

A personal diary-like post. My closing on ‘21 and what’s going on with Studio now.

New user management tools allow for more control over individual account access for web and mobile.

What do you do if your school or district changes courses at the end of the semester, but your MasteryConnect Tracker is set up to measure student progress for the entire school year? We have a solution, link that Tracker to a different course. 

The MasteryConnect team was hard at work in 2021. Check out some of the features we are most proud of sharing with you.

Our planned roadmap and approach to releases for New Quizzes API.

A bit of looking back AND looking forward related to quizzes.

You’ll be able to try 'Partial Points on Matching Questions' as soon as December 22nd in Beta. The feature will be available in your live production environments with the January 15th release. We hope this makes your new year a little bit brighter.  ...

“I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.” “Long Past?” inquired Scrooge . . . “No. Your past.”                                      - “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens

In early 2022, Impact (formerly EesySoft) users will be able to create customizable walkthroughs to help guide faculty and students through any process or task.

This is the second part of my thoughts regarding student annotations in the mobile apps.

We could all (hopefully!) agree that students should not struggle to identify how they can be successful in a learning setting. So...how can educators ensure that students understand how to succeed and with that knowledge, have the ability to take ch...

The MasteryConnect Teacher App works as the perfect companion for mastery-tracking both around the classroom and away from your computer. The Teacher App is available on both iOS and Android! 

TLDR: Canvas admins will have the ability to allow instructors to set online attendance criteria at the course level on December 8, 2021 

Brand identity is a precious thing to most organizations and institutions, but that shouldn't stop us from making accessibility the default whenever possible. That's why we're updating the default Canvas theme to have better contrast.