Anonymity + Moderation features are a long time coming for Canvas Discussions. We put together a couple of surveys and would love to get your feedback along with previews of upcoming designs. Join Discussions/Announcements Redesign User GroupCall for...

Instructure has a long history of opening the systems we build to extension and enhancement.  When we build products like Canvas, we want to make sure they work well for ALL our customers. After a long series of forays and experiments examining wheth...

When we looked at potential areas of improvement for our research and development teams to tackle in 2021, project planning and commitments were high on the list. So we are tidying things up a bit with quarterly planning. Why should you care?

When district and school leaders, teachers, and even students are all working together to address knowledge gaps, we see a transformative shift in progress to improve learning outcomes.

No need to study for this test. Come as you are and give your feedback on this new Canvas prototype.

Welcome back for the 2021-2022 school year! It is time for fresh crayons, blank notebooks, and a new MasteryConnect integration with Canvas. Since teachers are busy getting ready for the return of students I wanted to share six of my favorite time sa...

Printing options will be available in New Quizzes soon. We’re pretty clear on teacher needs and use cases thanks to the extensive feedback the community has provided. (We’re really focusing on high impact changes now!!) Also, although it sounds like ...

We're excited to share information on a forthcoming release we're calling "Improved Outcome Management" that will provide a better way to find, add, and edit outcomes. Check it out!

Have thoughts about how Lecture Capture should work with Studio? Then we have a few questions for you!

We have been hard at work to improve visibility of Instructure managed SIS Rostering and Grade Sync jobs. We have some designs that we'd love to have Canvas admins assist with validating.

Immersive Reader is great, but quizzes are complicated. Let's talk about it.

Many of our current SIS Integrations rely on Assignment Group names exactly matching SIS Category names for assignment creation in the SIS to be successful. This change introduces a new way to match Assignment Groups with SIS categories for increased...

New Analytics gives instructors some amazing, detailed course-level information. We'll walk you through all of the data visualizations, and we want to know: Have you seen it all? How do you use New Analytics? 

Districts want to help their educators ensure standard mastery, and then correlate those formative results with benchmark and summative data to predict progress - as well as to analyze disparities and trends by school, cohort, student subpopulation, ...

Thank you to those of you who were able to attend the MasteryConnect Updates: More to Love for Back to School ‘21  webinar! We had a great time showing off the awesome new features that are on the way. If you were unable to attend, it’s not too late ...

Will you help us know what release resources help you improve your experience with Canvas? 

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 th...

You may already be following the release notes and be in the know about the upcoming change to the in module experience for New Quizzes. If not, be sure to subscribe to release notes! Here is a walk through of what you'll see in the beta environment ...

Did you know chronic absenteeism of the few often causes learning gaps for the larger student group? Videri analytics surfaces absenteeism trends, identifies learning gaps, and illustrates important patterns across hundreds of related data points. 

Approximately 80 million people live with some type of disability in the European Union. That is already a huge number. These people would like to use the same tools and equipment that we all do. They matter, not only because 80 million people is a h...

Exciting things are happening in the Instructure world! As you have likely seen, today we announced the acquisition of EesySoft, an edtech adoption platform focused on driving engagement with and usage of edtech tools.

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

Instructure products will not ONLY add and improve features and capabilities in the months and years to come. We will also “prune” capabilities in order to make sure we can best serve an extremely diverse and broad set of needs around the globe.

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.

We are expanding the platforms from which one can smoothly upload video to Studio but we also work on something that we’ve owed the community with for a long time now. Let’s see what it is!

Most people understand what the font-size menu does, but bigger isn't always better.

I’m excited to introduce myself to the Canvas Community! My name is Ben Friedman and I’m a new Product Manager at Instructure, working on Outcomes within the Canvas LMS. 

Enrollment Alerts for students who have Withdrawn and are coded as Homeless, Foster Care, or Military-Connected

Want to give feedback on possible new rules/validations for Certify? 

Using MasteryConnect and Canvas just got better! Soon Trackers will be connected to Canvas Courses, making it even easier to access the power of the MasteryConnect directly from your Canvas Course. Now you’ll have more time for teaching, assessing, a...