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...

Wondering what Instructure has been considering a priority for New Quizzes? We'll start in early 2021 by ensuring that as an instructor, adding New Quizzes from Modules has a smooth workflow. I'm starting to formulate a plan for the rest of the year ...

On November 18, we deployed a change to math equation rendering around Canvas that caused chaos and pain for some math instructors using classic quizzes, namely in the form of breaking some math equations. most of you have already resolved this behav...

Instructure wants to make the interaction between Modules and New Quizzes fully integrated and more intuitive. Instructors will be able to add existing new quizzes and create new quiz placeholders from the Modules page.   We need you! As we don’t wan...

We've all experienced feeling overwhelmed by communication. In our efforts to streamline communication paths to those that teachers and students find most useful and meaningful, we researched the various delivery methods and we're making a few change...

Outcomes are the cornerstones of teaching and learning as they lay the foundation for what is to be learned within a specific time in a student’s learning journey. Is your institution using outcomes? We'd love to hear your thoughts.

The Instructure Product Team shared some big news at CanvasCon Online, as well as updates to existing products. Did you see the keynote?

In the upcoming months, the Catalog team is excited to work on a few Catalog improvements. We are considering such projects that don’t require massive engineering effort, but that address real customer pain points in the product. You can find the lis...

We have our sights set on making data importing easier so that you can take matters into your own hands. We’re starting by testing the ease of use of a small data importing process from your SIS to Canvas. We want to get your feedback!

As part of the revamp of our community platform, we’ve added a page where we're showing a forecast of the next three months of work on Instructure products. What can this new page do for you?

You’ve got that stressed look on your face and my little boy is suddenly in preschool, so I guess fall start has begun! Here’s a quick update on the new RCE.

As part of the discovery phase in our product development process, we are looking to improve our Assignment Enhancements beta feature and need your feedback. We want to make it easier to show students where their assignment is in the process of submi...

As part of the discovery phase in our product development process, we are looking to improve our Assignment Enhancements beta feature and need your feedback. We want to add the ability to see what has happened with an assignment submission over time ...

Dropbox and the Canvas team have been working together since 2018 to support the learning experience for students and faculty. With the launch of the new deep integration, we’re excited to make it even easier to get the best out of Dropbox and Canvas...

Institutions wanting reCAPTCHA for self registration can opt in before it's made generally available. 

If you are a developer who used oEmbed with LTI content embedded into the Canvas Rich Content Editor you will want to review this.

[UPDATE May 2021] The current deprecation date of September 1, 2021 is being pushed out to a later date. We are working with the Google Assignments Product Team to re-establish a new timeframe and will provide an update here in the near future as soo...