[2021-06-07 Update] TheDiscussions Redesign project is now available in the beta environment. Please view more details about this project in our Discussions Redesign User Group.

Stop playing Wack the Mole when attempting to create equitable opportunities and closing achievement gaps.

I know everyone is keen to hear what is coming next for Item Banks. We think we’re onto something good, but are still refining the user interaction experience.  New improvements to Item Banks will make it possible for Admins to share Item Banks at th...

It is not easy to describe the honour and excitement I feel now that I’ll be managing a product used by millions everyday. Still, I will try.

As I looked at my calendar this month I was reminded this May 13 (today) marks an anniversary of when LTI support was deployed to Canvas. This year will be 10 years! \o/

Thank you this week and EVERY week.

In the classroom, with a paper copy of a text, students can use highlighters, sticky notes, and all kinds of colorful pens and pencils to help them annotate the text and read for understanding. Active reading while taking online assessments can be mo...

In our newly released feature, Course Templates, find out how they're different from Blueprint Courses and use cases behind each.

Currently, the Catalog team is working on email customization and right after that we are going to jump on adding a shopping cart and supporting bulk purchase. In the meanwhile we are also working on identifying a longer term roadmap for Catalog and ...

Canvas LMS is adding an accessibility setting that will allow a user to have all Canvas LMS videos automatically show captions by default when the video has captions available.

tl;dr We will be discontinuing the SMS notifications service for Announcements and Grading on July 31, 2021. In an effort to further streamline our notification channels, we will discontinue the SMS notifications service for Announcements and Grading...

We always strive to release defect-free, robust software. I wanted to share some practices and principles that we strive for as we design, develop, and deliver Canvas with an eye on quality.

Canvas and Microsoft: Working together to create an integrated learning platform. This post outlines the timeline and next steps to prepare for roll-out of the improved integration. 

We have run a couple of user interviews recently. We wanted to know how the K-5 teachers utilize the technology and the possibilities of Canvas. I am acting as the product manager of the Canvas Mobile Apps, and not surprisingly I am mostly interested...

A few months ago we were looking for feedback on how to improve the workflows around importing user data into Portfolium. I'm pleased to announce we've shipped those features and made improvements to how you can handle user data imports through sched...

Hello, I am the engineer responsible for, depending on your experience, the enhancement of how math equations are displayed in canvas or the string of horrific errors that rendered math quizzes unreadable. If you're in the latter camp, I am truly sor...

Consolidation Announcement: The New Quizzes feature flag will include New Quizzes Importing (QTI file) functionality.

2021-04-08 Update: We've enabled this change to beta instances per the 2021-04-14 Canvas Deploy Notes to expose those who are interested with the opportunity to play and see how this would work.  Our current plan is to deploy the change end of April ...

Earlier today, one of the subsystems that Canvas relies on for service failed, causing a Canvas outage. The outage could have impacted up to 75% of our customers in North and South America if they were trying to access Canvas between 6:48 am and 8:27...

A quick look at how product managers use feature ideas from the Canvas Community.

If you use either question banks or item banks, we’d love to show early design ideas to get your impressions. For this round, meetings will be scheduled through the second week of April 2021. Each meeting would be approximately 45 minutes.  [....] Fo...

[As of July 2021, please post questions about New Quizzes in the New Quizzes user forum. For questions about the Classic Quizzes Timeline, please see Classic Quiz Sunset Timeline (Subscribe!)] This year Quizzes will be taking a two pronged focus wit...

[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 chang...

If you are using Developer Keys, ensure your HTTP Redirect URIs are secure before March 3.

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

We are taking small deliberate steps in creating seamless experiences between our products—this is one of them, and we need your feedback!

TL:DR  New features coming to Beta on February 22nd will enable better workflow for Admins Using Modules to create New Quizzes.  Problems identified through our discovery conversations with Admins and Educators: Can’t create a New Quiz from Modules -...

Effective 1 March 2021, we will no longer enable http traffic for any authentication providers in all Canvas mobile apps. This update means we’ll only allow communication over https protocol.

As Authorize.net made it public, they have deprecated and are sunsetting their SIM solution, a.k.a. the “classic” Authorize.net payment gateway.

First of all, thank you for the answers and useful feedback you provided after my previous post. We really appreciate this group’s responsiveness and valuable insights.  As 2020 is almost over we wanted to share our Catalog plans for the first half o...