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Yes, new versions can't always be 100% backward compatible with old versions.  We don't need a lot of cruft. But it's also vital that new versions provide the core features of old versions.  Otherwise, why should we stick with Canvas at all?  If we need to continually be on the hunt to make sure features we've come to expect are still present, it would make sense to migrate to new (and, I'd suspect, more feature-stable) LM systems. Put another way, there's no such thing as brand loyalty if the brand is completely protean. I'll point to the go-to example, New Quizzes.  The entire point of giving quizzes is to gain understanding of our students' knowledge.  We need the flexibility to analyze that data in whatever manner makes sense to the instructor, and a key part of that is data portability, so that we can analyze the data using whatever tools work best.  Classic Quizzes allows the downloading of student responses as CSV files.  New Quizzes does not allow the downloading of student responses in any format.  This basic feature has been missing despite two and a half years of increasingly desperate pleas by the actual users of Canvas, the instructors.  This isn't "pruning" old unwanted features.  It's a deliberate crippling of features actively sought. By the way, I wouldn't bank too much on that "50% by volume is New Quizzes" stat.  New Quizzes is now the default, so casual users opt for it whether or not they understand its features.  And support calls might be down because it's truly much more stable.  Or they might be down because lots of people are like me, who -- after encountering missing features -- will simply punt and go back to Classic without necessarily flagging it for the support team.  After all, if the feature is missing on purpose, then it's not really a bug. ... View more

Cool.  Any chance there'll be progress on allowing us to download New Quiz results, a key feature from Classic Quiz that is sorely missing on New Quiz? ... View more