We're adding new Instructure Live reminders, a redesigned home page for unauthenticated users, updates to our blog pages, and a new all guides page.

We’ve updated the Canvas LMS Question Forum user interface to provide easier access to answered and unanswered questions, upgraded the question feeds to match the new design throughout the Community, and made browsing and answering questions easier. These changes will roll out to the Canvas LMS Question Forum today and will roll out to other product question forums in the coming weeks and months.

We’ve also added a new Share button for earned badges. On the Badges tab on your profile page, you can share badges you’ve earned on social media using the provided text and links.

We refreshed and updated the Canvas LMS Release Notes pages with a clean design, added functionality, and easier back-end management. We also created a new Release Notes Archives page to let users easily browse and search older release notes. For now, these changes only apply to Canvas LMS Release Notes. Other product release notes will be updated in the coming months.

We updated the Instructure Community gamification structure with a brand new set of badges. The badges represent actions you take in and the value you add to the Instructure Community. The new badges also help you identify the credibility of members throughout the Community by giving you better context about a member’s participation in the Community. For more details on what the new badges mean and how we decided on the new badges, read Kristin’s Announcing: New Community Badges blog post.

The Instructure Community is launching a new set of badges to acknowledge members for their valuable contributions. We’re also thrilled that the scaled badges will make it easier to identify credible members throughout the Community! 

Updates and New Features: Tooltips, Blog Metadata, Top Nav Labels, Idea Filters, and Partner Space Happy Holidays from the Instructure Community team! We’re bringing you some quality-of-life updates this month to make participating in the Instructure Community even easier.

After our initial work on the Community Hub earlier this year, we knew we wanted to add even more goodness to the central hub of this Community. The Community Hub has been updated with more Community guides, a new tabbed layout with new sorting options, a profile completion checklist, an improved Jobs Board, an improved Resources section, and more.

Community Updates 2023-10-12: Changes to the Product Blog interface

We’re back with some more updates to the Instructure Community! We’ve been working on some new features to make filtering and sorting articles in the Community easier.

This Community empowers you with information to use Instructure software successfully, but we know it can sometimes feel like an expedition to find a single panda in the deepest darkest bamboo forest - we want to help you find that panda faster and in a way that feels natural. 

It’s why we’re introducing Panda Bot, a beta AI experience!  

A new button was added to each Question Forum. This great little tool was added to help you and all Community members quickly identify useful answers and to save you time! 

Were you aware that Instructure provides a video hosting and collaboration solution, Canvas Studio? We weren’t sure, so we thought we better ask before we share some exciting news - All video guides will be migrating from Vimeo to Canvas Studio by July 31st.

The Comunity Team is rolling out a rather significant update starting the week of June 5, 2023:  

Refreshed Home Page - An updated and elevated feel to the Instructure Community home page will make it easier to access the most important resources and topics within the Community.

The Comunity Team is rolling out a rather significant update starting the week of June 5, 2023:  

Individual product landing pages – Each product in the four product families will have a new layout applied and will be organized to promote actions of Learn, Contribute, and Discover.

The Comunity Team is rolling out a rather significant update during the week of June 5, 2023:  

Simplified top-level navigation - New navigation cues in the Community will organize resources into the categories of Product, Groups, and Explore and will make it possible to find what you need more efficiently. 

As the Themes & Ideas Process launches across all four of Instructure’s product families and as we respond to some feedback we received, the Community Team wanted to share that we made some adjustments to our Ranks and Roles. 

We’ve been hard at work giving a few areas in the Community a new coat of paint, making them easier to use, and we’re excited to finally show them off.

The Community Team has updated some features and displays within the Known Issues pages to make it easier to navigate and understand the statuses of all identified issues across all Instructure Products.

To better guide Community members, all idea conversations will use a new submission form beginning Monday, August 8.

We’ve been working under the hood of our community platform to figure out a better way to collect feedback from you, our awesome Community members.

We've made some exciting changes to the Canvas Video Guides page and the Ideas space!

Instead of taking the traditional approach of ‘badging for bragging rights’ (where you get a badge for doing something ‘right’ and glowing about it to all your peeps), we are flipping the model and “bragging by badging right” (glowing about you to all our peeps for the right reasons)! We are repurposing badges as a way to give out digital compliments to our awesome members.

Top Navigation menu of the Community will be under construction June 24, 2021 from 9:30am to 4:30pm MDT. Read on for more information or tips for finding Community content.

We've been working on even more awesome little updates to make our Community easier to use.

Tl;dr - Community content was migrated last summer, we had a record breaking fall, we’ve added some new products, and now it’s time to take what we’ve learned [thus far] and reorganize.

Canvas is a global solution, so providing quality guides in multiple languages has always been a top priority for Instructure. Guides in Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Welsh have been available for some time. However, only English, Portuguese, and Spanish guides could be found on our community site. The limitations of our previous community platform made publishing and organizing multi-language documentation difficult, so we housed many of those guides in a location outside of our Community. 

A few days are left of this horrible year

So we offer these gifts and some holiday cheer

To make this Community a better place

If you're reading a blog, you can now see a face!

And if you're scrolling a really long thread,

The author tag appears there in red.

And last but not least, this one's really cool,

We made a browser version checking tool.

It can be difficult to pinpoint exactly when a community coalesces but since at least 2011 people have been interacting with Instructure and helping each other with Canvas in online forums and message boards. In those early days, a few hundred people were involved. Today, that community passes a significant milestone as more than 500,000 people have created user accounts. During this fall start in the northern hemisphere, more than 25,000 people in one 24-hour period were active in the community, commenting, voting, adding content and marking each other’s comments as helpful or the correct answer.

We do this community thing because we care about our users' success and we believe community plays a big role in that. It gives us a place to communicate with our users but more importantly it gives our users a place to communicate with each other. A lot of evolution has happened over the past 5 years since we started figuring all this out. One thing that has become apparent: Community is the gift that keeps on giving.