Canvas Deploy Notes (2025-07-02)

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Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in the title of this document. Institutions are responsible for conducting thorough evaluations of their custom CSS/JS with each release and deploy to assess potential impacts.

Fixed bugs are located in Known Issues. For related issues resolved in this deploy, view the 2025-07-02 Known Issues tag.

Unless otherwise stated, all features in this deploy are available in the Beta environment on 2025-06-20 and the Production environment on 2025-07-02.

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Table of Contents

• Updated Features
• Admin Analytics
• Chart Color Updates
• Authentication
• InstUI Update
• Courses
• Join this Course Modal Update
• External Tools
• New Tab Support
• New Quizzes
• Enhanced Quiz Activity Log Details
• Detecting Multiple Sessions
• Account-level Number Formatting
• Permissions
• Permission Update for RCE Tool Favorites
• Reports
• User UUID Added to Provisioning Account Report CSV [Added on 2025-06-26]
• Rich Content Editor
• Default Image Dimension Type
• Other Updates
• Accessibility Updates
• Enhanced Experience for Assistive Technology Users

Updated Features

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Admin Analytics

Chart Color Updates

Admin

Beta Environment Availability	2025-06-25
Feature Option Name to Enable	Admin Analytics
Enable Feature Option Location & Default Status	Account (Enabled/Unlocked)
Subaccount Configuration	Yes
Account Setting to Enable	None
Permissions	Admin Analytics
Affects User Interface	Yes
Affected Areas	Admin Analytics
Related Ideas	None

Summary

Admin Analytics charts and data visualizations has a new color palette that meets accessibility contrast requirements.

Change Benefit

This update ensures that charts and data visualizations in Admin Analytics meet accessibility contrast standards, improving readability and supporting a more inclusive user experience.

Authentication

InstUI Update

Admin

Feature Option Name to Enable	N/A
Enable Feature Option Location & Default Status	N/A
Subaccount Configuration	N/A
Account/Course Setting to Enable	None
Permissions	Account-level settings - manage
Affects User Interface	Yes
Affected Areas	Authentication
Related Ideas	None

Summary

The LDAP Settings modal interface is updated with the latest InstUI.

Change Benefit

This update improves consistency with the overall Canvas interface, enhances accessibility, strengthens security through updated components, and ensures better performance and maintainability of the user interface.

Feature Workflow

Updated LDAP Setting Modal

The LDAP Settings modal is refreshed to incorporate the latest InstUI design.

Courses

Join this Course Modal Update

All Users

Feature Option Name to Enable	N/A
Enable Feature Option Location & Default Status	N/A
Subaccount Configuration	N/A
Account/Course Setting to Enable	Account: Show a searchable list of courses in this root account with the "Include this course in the public course index" flag enabled. Course: Include this course in the public course index
Permissions	Inherent to user role
Affects User Interface	Yes
Affected Areas	Public Courses
Related Ideas	None

Summary

The Join this Course Modal when joining public courses displays an updated interface. The modal dynamically adjusts iframe size to ensure embedded HTML content is fully visible, preventing footers or other elements from overlapping the body content.

Change Benefit

This update ensures that modals displaying embedded HTML content now fully adjust to fit all content, preventing footers or other elements from being cut off, resulting in a cleaner, more readable experience.

Feature Workflow

Enroll in a Course Modal

The Enroll in a Course modal displays an updated user interface.

External Tools

New Tab Support

Admin

Feature Option Name to Enable	N/A
Enable Feature Option Location & Default Status	N/A
Subaccount Configuration	N/A
Account/Course Setting to Enable	None
Permissions	Account-level settings - manage
Affects User Interface	No
Affected Areas	Admin Tools, Developer Keys, External Tools
Related Ideas	[Admin Tools] Make all LTI placement types obey "open in new tab" rules set by the windowTarget blan... [External Tools] windowTagret parameter should be functional for more LTI placements

Summary

In Developer Keys, the Global Navigation and User Navigation placements support the "windowTarget": "_blank" setting. When configured, tools launched from these placements will open in a new, borderless tab, without Canvas User Interface elements.

Change Benefit

This update provides a cleaner, distraction-free experience and more flexibility for integrating full-screen external tools.

New Quizzes

Enhanced Quiz Activity Log Details

Admin

Feature Option Name to Enable	New Quizzes See the Canvas Feature Option Summary to learn more about Feature Options.
Enable Feature Option Location & Default Status	Account (Disabled/Unlocked)
Subaccount Configuration	Yes
Account/Course Setting to Enable	Inherent to user role
Affects User Interface	Yes
Affected Areas	New Quizzes Activity Log
Related Ideas	[New Quizzes] Add IP Address to Quiz Log

Summary

Admins can view the Client IP address for each question of a quiz in the Activity Log. 

Change Benefit

This update provides admins with greater visibility into quiz activity, helping them verify student engagement and identify potential irregularities during quiz attempts.

Feature Workflow

Activity Log IP Address View

In the Activity Log, admins can view additional information related to each question.

 

Detecting Multiple Sessions

Admin Student

Feature Option Name to Enable	New Quizzes See the Canvas Feature Option Summary to learn more about Feature Options.
Enable Feature Option Location & Default Status	Account (Disabled/Unlocked)
Subaccount Configuration	Yes
New Quiz Setting to Enable	Detect Multiple Sessions
Permissions	Inherent to user role
Affects User Interface	Yes
Affected Areas	New Quizzes
Related Ideas	None

Summary

Instructors can enable the Detect Multiple Sessions setting in a quiz to monitor if students access the quiz from multiple devices or browsers. When this setting is enabled, students receive a notification if they attempt to continue a quiz in a different session from where they started. All multi-session activity is recorded and can be viewed in the activity log and Moderate page by admins. 

Change Benefit

This update prevents students from starting multiple quiz sessions at the same time, helping ensure assessments are completed as intended. It also includes tools to monitor and manage potential issues, promoting fair and secure testing practices.

Feature Workflow

New Quiz Setting Detect Multiple Settings

In Quiz Settings, click the Detect Multiple Sessions toggle to enable multi-session detection for relevant quizzes.

Student Notification of Multiple Sessions

If a student starts a New Quiz session on one device or browser and then attempts to access it from another, a banner displays notifying them that their multi-session activity will be recorded and visible to their instructor.

Moderate Page View Log Link

In the Moderate page, quiz sessions started from multiple devices or browsers are highlighted in red and visible to admin only.

Activity Log Multiple Session Details

Details about multiple sessions are available in the activity log for admins.

Account-level Number Formatting

Admin

Feature Option Name to Enable	New Quizzes See the Canvas Feature Option Summary to learn more about Feature Options.
Enable Feature Option Location & Default Status	Account (Disabled/Unlocked)
Subaccount Configuration	Yes
Account/Course Setting to Enable	None
Permissions	Inherent to user role
Affects User Interface	Yes
Affected Areas	Account and Sub-account Settings, New Quizzes
Related Ideas	None

Summary

In Account or Sub-account Settings, admins can set thousand and decimal separators for number formatting in New Quizzes. 

Note: Both fields must either be set or left empty. If set, the two fields cannot have the same value.

Change Benefit

This update ensures consistent formatting across all quizzes in the account, helping reduce student confusion and input errors.

Feature Workflow

Account New Quiz Settings

In Account Settings, admins can set the Decimal Separator [1] and the Thousand Separator [2] using the drop-down menu.

Decimal Separator Options

For Decimal Separator, admins can choose between Not set, Period and Comma.

Thousand Separator Options

For Thousand Separator, admins can choose between Not set, Period, Comma and Space.

Permissions

Permission Update for RCE Tool Favorites

Admin

Feature Option Name to Enable	N/A
Enable Feature Option Location & Default Status	N/A
Subaccount Configuration	N/A
Account/Course Setting to Enable	None
Permissions	LTI-edit
Affects User Interface	No
Affected Areas	Permissions
Related Ideas	None

Summary

Editing the Add to Rich Content Editor toolbar placement for external (LTI) tools is restricted to users with the LTI - edit permission, ensuring only authorized users can manage toolbar favorites. 

Change Benefit

This creates a more consistent and intuitive experience for managing toolbar tools.

Reports

User UUID Added to Provisioning Account Report CSV [Added on 2025-06-26]

Admin

Feature Option Name to Enable	N/A
Enable Feature Option Location & Default Status	N/A
Subaccount Configuration	N/A
Account/Course Setting to Enable	None
Permissions	Reports-Manage
Affects User Interface	No
Affected Areas	Reports
Related Ideas	None

Summary

In the Provisioning Account report, the user UUID is included in the exported CSV. To maintain compatibility with existing integrations, the UUID displays as the final column in the report.

Change Benefit

This update allows systems or institutions using the exported CSV to uniquely and reliably identify users by their UUID. This enhances data accuracy for integrations, audits, and automation workflows

Rich Content Editor

Default Image Dimension Type

All Users

Feature Option Name to Enable	N/A
Enable Feature Option Location & Default Status	N/A
Subaccount Configuration	N/A
Account/Course Setting to Enable	None
Permissions	Inherent to user role
Affects User Interface	Yes
Affected Areas	Rich Content Editor
Related Ideas	None

Summary

In the Rich Content Editor, the default image dimension type is changed to percentage. Previously, this dimension type was pixels.

Change Benefit

This update sets the most commonly used option as the default, reducing the number of clicks required. This change reflects user feedback and improves overall efficiency.

Feature Workflow

Rich Content Editor Image Dimension Type

When an image is added to the Rich Content Editor, its dimensions default to percentages.

Other Updates

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Accessibility Updates

Enhanced Experience for Assistive Technology Users

Updates enhance accessibility, usability, and equity, especially for users of assistive technology. Improvements include refined semantic structure, clearer error messaging, improved visual contrast, and enhanced keyboard and screen reader navigation to provide a more intuitive and consistent experience for all users.

Related Blog: Advancing Accessibility in Canvas: On the Path to Full WCAG 2.1 AA Compliance