Exciting news! Starting August 5, Canvas Credentials Pathways will offer greater flexibility by allowing optional badge requirements at the step level. Discover how this update, inspired by your feedback, can enhance your pathway design.

We are pleased to announce a strategic update to our data handling process for weblogs on the CD2 platform, effective immediately. This upgrade involves transitioning to a more robust data source, ensuring enhanced data integrity and reliability with...

We have heard from many of you regarding the evolving ecosystem around access token usage and we wanted to share our upcoming plans and strategies.

We held multiple sessions on Intelligent Insights at InstructureCon. In this post, we’ve gathered some of the most frequently asked, specific questions to provide you with detailed answers.

Hello Community Members, I’m Tamas Balogh, the new Product Manager for Discussions. Some of you might remember me from when I was the Technical Product Manager for New Quizzes. I left Instructure in March, but I'm excited to announce that I’m back!

  For reference: Link to New Quizzes End of Quarter Update Q1 - 2023 New Quizzes News In the past quarter, we've been hard at work bringing valuable updates to New Quizzes that enhance its functonality and usability. One of the key updates is the ab...

A new report sharing predictive validity evidence for the Mastery View Predictive Assessments is now available. The report provides evidence from seven districts across four states for grade 3–8 students in math, reading, and science.

We heard your feedback—the extra step to set due dates is too much. Within the next month, the edit pages for assignments, quizzes, and discussions will revert to their previous design, while preserving the new features for selective module release a...

Instructure is committed to enhancing the management and use of LTI (Learning Tool Interoperability) apps within Canvas to be as efficient and impactful as possible. We are also dedicated to providing our partners with outstanding integrated experien...

We're gearing up for an exciting new feature: Salesforce Integration with Catalog! Be among the first to test and shape this groundbreaking enhancement. Interested? Stay tuned for more details on how to join our Beta testing team!

We've made important updates to our DAP CLI documentation, including new resource links, detailed explanations on queries, and guidance on datasets and namespaces. Coming soon, the DAP CLI will support secure connections to MySQL and PostgreSQL, bett...

If you have accessed your Mastery Connect account since last week, you likely noticed a change in our default color palette. While this change has significant visual impact, we believe it will ultimately improve Mastery Connect by making it more acce...

Are you ready to shape the future of the Canvas Catalog? As one of our valued users, your feedback is crucial in helping us refine and improve the Category menu. We've heard your concerns about the current version, and our dedicated team has develope...

At InstructureCon we heard from several of you that migrating from LTI 1.1 to 1.3 has been a challenge. We wanted to ease this as much as possible for both tool developers as well as users of their tools, so we have created this best practices guide....

Say goodbye to the hassle of finding the perfect thumbnail! Canvas Commons now provides default placeholder thumbnail images for all shared content. Simplify your sharing process while still having the option to upload your own unique images.

We just wrapped our 14th InstructureCon last week in Las Vegas! Our team gathered with nearly 3,000 customers and partners from across the globe for over 260 inspiring sessions. The temperature outside soared to over 115 degrees, but inside, the atmo...

 Meet Máté, the newest addition to our Instructure team!  With a rich background in hospitality IT and a passion for creating products people love, Máté brings a fresh perspective as the new Product Manager of Catalog. From lecturing at Corvinus Un...

We're changing your Portfolium Outcomes Assessment Grade Exchange LTI experience. Starting August 5th, to align with new web standards and boost security, the Grade Exchange LTI will open exclusively in a new tab.

Discover how global collaboration is driving innovation and shaping the future of Canvas LMS. Dive into the highlights of our latest discovery session and see how we're committed to enhancing the educational experience for our diverse user community.

We're thrilled to introduce Intelligent Insights, Instructure's latest product offering designed to revolutionize analytics and AI in education, launching at InstructureCon.

Workflows are an essential LearnPlatform by Instructure functionality that streamline the edtech vetting process. Using and building automated workflows strategically saves you time and effort, while helping loop in the right stakeholders at the rig...

Explore your Mastery connect data with new dashboards, visualizations, and features! 

I wanted to share a final update on the Discussions/Announcements Redesign before it becomes officially enforced on July 20th.

Streamline your students' badge management experience with our newly reintroduced Backpack feature in the LTI 1.3 integration. Learn how this update can enhance engagement and contribute to your institution's credentialing success.

On June 15, 2024, the Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite (LucidChart and LucidSpark) was made generally available to all Canvas customers. This integration gives educators and students alike an elevated teaching and learning experience in Canvas throug...

We are thrilled to announce that our Admin Analytics feature in Canvas is now being migrated to the Data Access Platform (DAP). This transition brings a host of benefits, ensuring a more efficient, consistent, and insightful experience for all users.

We’ve been working hard since my last post, and we’ve made some progress. Over the past few months, my teams and I have had the chance to meet many of you in several global cities. Your time, candid feedback, and constructive ideas are deeply appreci...

In our continuous effort to enhance the Canvas experience, we're excited to share the latest updates and improvements we've made based on your feedback. Over the past few months, our dedicated team has been hard at work addressing key user pain point...

Impact’s roadmap has been updated and we’ve added some much-anticipated features and functionality for release and discovery. 

Important accessibility fixes are coming to Canvas Catalog on June 25th. Changes to the HTML structure may affect your customizations. Check your beta instances now to ensure everything works smoothly before the production release on July 22nd!