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 

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.

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.

At the end of Q2 2022 we are going to sunset the Portfolium CNAME support. 

Captions have long been a key topic both when creating or viewing content. We prepared a survey around this and we'd greatly appreciate your feedback!

Announcing a new update on New Quizzes - New Quizzes End of Quarter Update - Q1 2022. Read on to learn about our Q1 achievements and Q2 Objectives, then join us by subscribing to the Quizzes Transition User Group to provide feedback and stay up to date on future developments.

Hear details of a new calculation method coming to Canvas and how to choose the right option for how you think about mastery of a standard or outcome. 

Announcing a new feature preview available in Canvas courses. Read on to learn about Course Pacing and join us in the Course Pacing User Group to provide feedback and stay up to date on future developments.

The Google team is releasing several updates to the Google Assignments LTI 1.3 tool over the next several months.

The Canvas mobile applications just like any other application (even web pages in the web browser) store data on the local device for various reasons. Mostly for performance and speed benefits, but even distance learning considerations can play a role here like preparing the applications for offline usage. 

The today released Media Insights page is not only a redesigned view with some fancy new metrics. It is the foundation to better understand correlation between media usage and student success.

Any virtual or automated chat should exist to enhance the customer experience, not diminish it

Ever wondered why internationalization is essential? Come and hear from our New global PM and her focus on improving localization and translations as part of her role. 

Icon Maker is coming to the Canvas RCE!

Next Catalog improvement: Bulk Purchases and Enrollments

The Catalog Team spent the beginning of the year tweaking and fine-tuning the Shopping Cart and improving receipts. The team has also started building a new feature: Bulk Purchases and Enrollments. This feature enables individuals to purchase multiple seats in a single listing and distribute those seats by inviting students to enroll in that listing for free. This feature can also be used to enroll multiple students in free listings Users can view historical payments and enrollments by accessing the Purchases and Enrollments page from the Catalog menu.

Similar to the Shopping Cart feature rollout, the Bulk Purchases and Enrollments feature will be released in multiple phases to Beta, but in one batch to Production. 

A new button will soon be added to the Details (Listing) page to allow institutions ample time to adjust their custom CSS/JS code. In the beginning, the button will not work and I apologize for this limitation, but we would like to make sure that institutions have time to adjust any customizations, if necessary. Our goal is to have this new feature finished by the end of Q1 2022 and have the first Beta release next week. 

Please stay tuned, I will update this thread after each Beta release. 

UPDATE: We will need a little bit more time to complete all the requirements for bulk purchase and enrollment so it's not going to be finished by the end of Q1. I will keep this post up-to-date and let you know about the upcoming Beta release dates. 

UPDATE2: May 23 we released another major part of bulk purchase and enrollment to Beta. We are going to have a few more Beta releases before releasing the new functionality to Production.