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We made a series of changes to the SpeedGrader student list icons, and this disrupted your grading. This blog post is meant to share what happened, and how we’re working to avoid it happening again. What happened Initially the student list conveyed submission status differently on screen than it did to assistive…
Welcome to the Instructure Community Weekly Highlights blog! Every Monday, we will update you with all the goings-on in the Instructure world from the previous week: community updates, product updates, new blogs to read, and everything else you'll need to know will be here! Community Spotlights Introduction to Audio…
Hi, I have a lot of problems with students attaching files to comments on assignments (or in speedgrader?) in order to avoid deadlines and to get around the file type restrictions on the assignments themselves. It is very problematic, is not just a small handful of students. I can see that some classes are designed in a…
Hello, Our faculty are getting ready to receive their spring course shells. In the past, we have instructed them to do "all content" course copies. This has resulted in faculty having hundreds and sometimes thousands of files that they're not using (old material, duplicates, unused content). We have TidyUP and have advised…
Knowing that a feature has been used isn't the same as knowing it was useful. Impact by Instructure now gives every Impact admin a clearer view of how educators and students use Canvas, Mastery, and Parchment Digital Badges. You'll also see whether your guides have been effective in supporting users and driving action and…
I'm working with a faculty member who is creating a writing quiz that asks students to respond to questions from 3 different banks (one pulling easy questions, one pulling hard/rewrite questions, and one pulling from an AI bank). There is some kind of glitch happening whereby students are getting duplicate questions from…
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. New to deploy notes? Visit Understanding Release…
I apologize if this question has been asked a thousand times, but as I was reading and commenting on papers yesterday, the rubric I created and posted suddenly disappeared from view, and now they're no longer visible for any assignment in any of my courses. Does anyone know how this happened and how I can fix it? I've…
I would like to add a teacher to a course that I set up. She has registered as a teacher on Canvas Lite and has been verified. I sent her the course code, but that didn't work for her. I also tried adding her to the course using the email address she used to sign up for Canvas Lite. That doesn't work either. Please let me…
It's frustrating to try and figure out how to replace a single image without having to upload a new one and leaving the original in the same folder. Is there an easy way to figure out what an image has been renamed to in the folder so I can find and replace it?
When I add Tags at the bottom of this Create Post page, only some of them show up. There is a list of Popular Tags: The only ones from here that actually appear in the Tags list when selected are as follows: All of the other tags just disappear. They do, however, get assigned to the Post - it just doesn't show them until…
I used to be able to quickly see, at a glance, what assignments were ungraded in SpeedGrader because they had a little orange dot next to them. I would also easily be able to skip over the unsubmitted ones. But now… What's up with this? Who approved this change? I don't like it. They could have added the written labels…
Release notes outline upcoming customer-impacting changes that are expected to display in beta and/or production environments. Please note that features considered for future development are not included in the notes. New to release notes? Visit Understanding Release Notes for a guide on how to read and use this document.…
At our institution, we have quite a few resource shells where faculty members need to be enrolled as students. However, we've uncovered that many of the faculty members have a higher-level admin view of these courses, meaning that they can see content outside of their assigned section, but that they also can't use regular…
We're releasing table-level access control for the Canvas Data 2 (CD2) / DAP Query API to help institutions and partners have more precise control over which data tables can be accessed via the API for greater efficiency, simplicity and governance. From November 9, 2026, a CD2 API key carries an explicit list of the tables…
I teach middle school, and I am looking for ideas for using Canvas to support students who need extra structure with assignments. I already try to break directions into smaller steps, but I would like to know what other features or routines teachers use to make expectations clearer and help students stay organized. Have…
I teach 8th-grade ELA and Georgia Studies, and I am looking for ways to make Canvas easier for middle school students to navigate. I especially want to make assignments and directions more manageable for students who need information broken into smaller steps. What are your best tips for organizing modules, assignments,…
This discussion was created from comments split from: Instructure Community Weekly Highlights (October 27 - November 2, 2026).
Hello everyone! Thank you for joining us at yesterday's Impact User Group meeting. Here is the link to the slide deck as well as the as the recording: Slides Recording Passcode: 2?=ub*!D Also, here are some quick tips for guides and segments in Impact: To ensure guides don't appear on assessment pages/during assessments,…
It would be helpful to see at least part of an essay submitted by students as I'm making my audio comments. Now, though, the modal box takes up most of the screen real estate in Speed Grader preventing me from quoting from what the student has submitted. Could it be smaller if one is choosing audio comments (rather than…
My iSpring lectures (in HTML5) were imported into the new Canvas Lite. They play well, but the audio (mp3) is intermittent. In trying to correct this behavior, I cannot successfully re-upload these files. How is everyone else uploading these types of lecture videos?
Hello Canvas Community! Does anyone utilize TouchNet as their payment system for Canvas Catalog courses? And if so, does anyone implement a Marketplace uStore? Other than adding tax into the course enrollment fee, does anyone have a working solution between Catalog and TouchNet Marketplace to collect tax for taxable online…
This is incredibly frustrating. I use a rubric with imported outcomes to grade my assignments. Each problem is mapped to an outcome, scored on a scale with 4 tiers (the upper 2 tiers granting mastery). For a few of my students—not all—grading a new assignment deletes their earned mastery on an earlier, unrelated…
Hello, I recently signed up for Canvas Lite teacher account and was prompted for verification. I'm planning on using Canvas Lite to host my Drama Club that I am hosting for my community. I just turned 18 so I'm in the process of getting my license except for that I've lost my Birth Cert so I'm having issues getting that at…
A Real Conversation on Competency Visibility Most training programs can track seat time. Very few can prove their graduates are actually competent and job-ready. That gap is costing institutions in quality of patient care, accreditation risk, failed placements, and lost funding. Register now
Join our regular monthly CS Webinar featuring our CS Product Specialist, Jacob, for a focused session on Parchment Digital Badges. Session Topics: What are Digital Badges How they help the learners Awarding badges and whether it can be done live through a QR code Agenda: 5 min: Introductions 20 min: Presentation by CS…
Join us for the 2026 Illinois Canvas Connect event being held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This one-day immersive event will explore the latest innovations transforming the higher ed landscape in Illinois. Whether you're enhancing the digital classroom with Canvas or modernizing admissions and…
You already know students are using AI. The harder problem is that a finished draft no longer tells you how much of the thinking was theirs, and traditional detection tools get it wrong often enough to put you at risk with the wrong student. Changing the assignment solves more of this than changing a policy. When an…
The Instructure Community Developers Group is gathering to meet some fellow developers of Canvas customizations and external tool integrations. Discuss projects you're working on, success stories of past projects, and things you may be struggling with. Request to join the Instructure Community Developers Google Group to…
The Canvas Klatch is an online office hour open to all members of the Instructure Community. It started as an office hour for the courses I teach for the Online Network of Educators: Introduction to Teaching with Canvas Advanced Techniques with Canvas Online Teaching and Design Equity & Culturally Responsive Online…