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.

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...

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

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.

Thoughts on where we are after three months of living with COVID-19.

The world is a challenging place. Life can be hard. In the last couple months it’s gotten even more challenging as we all learn a new way to live, work and learn together. The fears of a nation are weighing heavily on our students and making the job ...

[UPDATE 2020-09-20] Because of challenges from COVID-19, the timeline presented in this post has been affected. For the most current information, please reference New Quizzes Users Group. For quite some time now, teams at Instructure have been workin...

Canvas Parent 3.1 beta for Android and iOS - incoming!

What’s in a name? What does it mean? Why is it important? 

Recently, IMS Global announced the deprecation schedule of the LTI 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, and 2.0 specifications. Going forward, LTI Core version 1.3 (LTI 1.3) will be the recommended specification for new integrations and any integrations wishing to upgrade...