TLDR: Seven Canvas service disruptions in September caused problems for many users. We’re learning and making improvements to ensure this doesn’t happen again. This includes training, adjustments to our processes, and improvements to our technology.

The last piece on the recent API improvements

The Default to New Quizzes feature option sets New Quizzes as the default quizzing engine and removes the ability to create Classic Quizzes, however access will not be removed for viewing content or data for Classic Quizzes.

Retaining content from retiring users, quickly finding gigabyte large videos across the entire account, exporting media analytics and a few more. First episode of the new Studio API introduction.

A refactored version of Canvas Inbox will be available for usage and testing in Beta on 9/15.

Read how outcome results and reporting works to calculate mastery within New Quizzes and hear about work we are doing to make outcome results available in the Learning Mastery Gradebook and outcomes reporting!

Color contrast is fascinatingly complex and there are multiple ways to calculate it.

For this month’s blog post, we decided to share a few exceptionally good questions we received recently so you’re all able to see our responses. Please comment and let us know if this information proves useful to you. And we’d also love to know if there is any content you’d like to see in future posts, so please feel free to share that in the comments, as well! 

Blueprint courses now support Item Banks and updates to New Quizzes.

If you are a district administrator using both the Mastery Connect (AMS) and Canvas (LMS) applications, you already have the tools for a successful year. You can easily deliver learning activities through Canvas and visualize student levels of understanding using the power of Mastery Connect from any Canvas Course. 

As you get ready for another year, here are a few best practices to help administrators and teachers quickly set up Mastery Connect courses, so they can focus on what matters most: the students!

Mastery Connect Help Center and Online PD are moving to new and improved homes!

In this and the following quarters (Q3 and Q4 in 2022 and continuing in 2023) the Catalog team will be working on improving Catalog Analytics. Let me break it down to you in detail what this means.

Hey Everyone, I’m Dalma and I joined the Portfolium team as a Product Manager a couple of weeks ago. The whole culture at Instructure is such a breath of fresh air. The people are amazing here!

Support for SpeedGrader is available on August 9, 2022! In addition, if you're using Collaborations, there's a work around that will allow you to adopt the new tool but keep the old app for Collaborations for now. Read on...

Read on to preview upcoming improvements to how you can view outcome alignments within courses. Also, see what new type of content in Canvas can be aligned to outcomes in the near future!

Since I’m over my first month here, at Instructure, I guess it’s time to write my official introduction. So, hi everyone, my name is Kata, and I’m a Product Manager for Catalog and Commons.

We’re clarifying how the recently released Mastery Paths setting should function and how to choose the right setting for your institution 

Updates on New Quizzes Integrations (Rich Content Editor and API) & Item Analysis

The latest update on New Quizzes -  New Quizzes End of Quarter Update - Q2 2022. Read on to learn about our latest achievements and objectives, then join us by subscribing to the Quizzes Transition User Group to provide feedback and stay up to date on future developments.

Check out this post if you'd like to know more about the status of RCE in New Quizzes and what can you expect in the upcoming months. 

Exciting news! We’ve got big product changes to announce, and we think you’re going to love what they include. 

Read on to find out how to participate in user interviews so that we can improve the Learning Mastery Gradebook experience!

Here at Canvas, we remain committed to diversity, inclusion, and belonging and to serving all members of the Instructure family. We have updated the icon for item banks and resources within Canvas LMS and Mastery Connect to a file folder to acknowledge and respect cultural differences.  One small effort like this, can make a difference for students and instructors in our global community to feel seen and heard.

I hope this post will make many of you happy. Well, more accurately not the post itself, but the feature which we are releasing for the Android and iOS Canvas applications. There were tons of incoming requests asking us to let the users decide between dark and light themes according to their needs.

It is time to share progress on the Canvas Data 2 product development.

Take a short survey and let us know if we're on the right track!

Take this short survey and help us improve the Accessibility Checker in Canvas LMS!

Read how outcome alignments work with New Quizzes and hear about work we are doing to make outcome results from New Quizzes more available!

We are rolling out significant support around the API in multiple phases. Read this snippet on our plans to see what’s coming first.

Rich Content Editor (RCE) in Fill-in-the-Blank questions has now been released to Production environments