How many buttons are in this screenshot of the Canvas RCE? Really look and take a count before you read on.

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 new RCE will be integrated to New Quizzes until Phase 2 of Classic Quizzes sunsetting timeline. It will be the same RCE and same experience which you use across Canvas.

As promised, in this blog post I will share some further news on our progress with Canvas Data 2. In my previous post I mentioned why we needed to re-architecture our data pipeline and what things we are working on. This time, I would like to give yo...

We all know that data matters. Over the last few years there has been an increasing demand for easily accessible, accurate, actionable data in all educational products. Catalog is not an exception, and we would like to make sure that the reporting an...

We have some exciting improvements coming to the Tier 1 Support experience, which we anticipate will help provide even better support for our customers. While the implementation of these features is still some time away, we were too excited to wait a...

I love to DREAM!  Not the sleepy day-dreaming kind.  Data Rules Everything Around Me.  I love data and enjoy making sure a ‘story’ and its data match.  Lately, I have been talking with numerous people regarding standards making the statement; ‘Standa...

A few months ago, an article in the Washington Post focused on how Competency-Based Education and related initiatives such as Standards-Based Grading are receiving attention from K-12 school districts and higher education institutions as a way of res...

As I have mentioned in my previous post, the engineering team is working on adding a shopping cart to Catalog. We have broken down this improvement into 3 different phases, and we will roll them out to Catalog Beta in 3 different steps.

In linguistics, borrowing is the process by which a word from one language is adapted for use in another. The word that is borrowed is called a borrowing, a borrowed word, or a loanword. A familiar example of this in education is Kindergarten, which ...

Managing content at a district level is a huge job, and content is always changing. Check out three tools that will help you get your most up-to-date content into Teacher’s Trackers to help inform instruction.

On this 55th World Teachers Day, I want to say thank you to all the teachers, instructors, faculty, educators who have, and are, making a difference in the world.

Provide feedback on some proposed UX changes to the RCE.

So, even if it is not obviously visible from the UI, the “traditional” annotations and the “Student Annotation Submission” annotations use different technological approaches under the hood and that should be considered/implemented in the Student App ...

If you’ve been wondering what we’re considering for content migration to support the Sunsetting Classic Quizzes Timeline, look no further! As with all of our new features, we need to ensure we understand user needs and the impact we would have along ...

The Canvas RCE now lets you know when your content has possible accessibility issues.

How to get data-driven insights in a tsunami of disjointed data.

In North America, fall is upon us and that means cooling temperatures, shorter days, and all kinds of migrations - birds flying south and kids returning to class. Here on the Canvas Outcomes team, migration has been on our minds as well. As we have b...

Hello Community! We have received many feature requests for Groups over the years. Thank you for your posts in the Ideas space and requests through your CSMs. We are currently reviewing those. I would also love to hear from you on this thread to get ...

We decided to implement New Quizzes Public API in GraphQL and here's the first information you need to know about and what you can expect from us regarding the documentation of the API.

Let’s just start in medias res because I am pretty sure that most of you are curious about not just the state of the Canvas Data 2 but also about what comes next (and why it didn’t come yet). The questions I expect you might be wondering about are:  ...

The team continues to work on major technical projects like our commitment milestones of Public APIs and Migration tooling (including easy question bank to item bank migration.) At the same time, where possible we are continuing forward with smaller ...

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 MasteryConnect team is looking toward the future, and we want to hear from you! 

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 str...

You are probably wondering what the Catalog team has been working on recently and what other developments we are planning until the end of 2021. 

Instructure is proud of our partnerships and ability to work with other third party vendors so that you have access to a wide variety of tools. New Quizzes strives for that same standard — however, in its current state, the only Instructure supported...

Making Studio consistent and accessible in all screen sizes while keeping an eye on our future plans is one of our great challenges—the recent change on the CC toggle has shown this. (Shh, you’ll learn a couple terminologies, too!)

When I think about education and what it means to me, one word irrevocably comes to my mind which is “Ikigai”—the Japanese word referring to something that gives a person a sense of purpose. Let's talk about Ikigal in your world and mine.

Our announcement post talked through the why and how to access new printing options. Now that Beta has the new printing options, here’s what to expect.