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What is the purpose of this guide? This walkthrough informs students of the function of the various Global Navigation menu links. Find out where your guide steps will show in your application Click here for the preview of the guide. Tag location for each step Step 1: The Global Navigation menu Page: Canvas Dashboard page…
We've just released nine new Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) Shared Layouts for Canvas covering both instructor and student workflows: OOTB | Publish a course: Instructors OOTB | Walkthrough: Global navigation check OOTB | Walkthrough: Global Navigation menu (Students) OOTB | Walkthrough: Global Navigation menu (Instructors) OOTB |…
We've added 10 new out-of-the-box (OOTB) Shared Layouts to Impact by Instructure. Each one started life as an Impact Legacy walkthrough or message campaign, and we've redesigned them as multistep guides for both instructor and student workflows: OOTB | Walkthrough: Course Content Check OOTB | Walkthrough: Course Settings…
What is the purpose of this Guide? The purpose of this Guide is to proactively inform users about the Canvas release update of May 2026. Tag location for each step Step 1: Canvas Release of May 2026 Page: Canvas Dashboard Page Find out where your guide will show in your application Linked Resources: Canvas Release Notes…
What is the purpose of this Guide? The purpose of this Guide is to empower instructors to check their global settings. Find out where your Guide steps will show inside your product Click here for the preview of the guide. Tag placement for each step Step 1: Publish your courses!: Page: Course home page Step 2: Publish this…
What is the purpose of this Guide? The purpose of this guide is to help Instructors publish their courses to make them available to students. Find out where your Guide steps will show inside your product Click here for the preview of the guide Tag placement for each step Step 1: Let’s get started! Page: Canvas Dashboard…
What is the purpose of this guide? This walkthrough informs instructors of the function of the various Global Navigation menu links. Find out where your guide steps will show in your application Click here for the preview of the guide Tag location for each step Step 1: The Global Navigation menu Page: Canvas Dashboard page…
What is the purpose of this Guide? This Guide helps students through the process of submitting an online assignment. Note: Not intended for use when Assignment enhancements are toggled on Find out where your Guide steps will show Click here for the preview of the guide. Tag location for each step Step 1: Learn how to…
Release Timing: Generally Available and enforced beginning July 18, 2026 Regional Availability: Global Customer Type: Higher Education and K12 Available with: Canvas Core (all Canvas users) Key Takeaway: The enhanced Learning Mastery Gradebook gives instructors clearer, more actionable insight into learner outcome…
What we're doing and why. In response to the security incident that affected Canvas in May 2026, Instructure has launched a comprehensive hardening program. The goal is to build a platform engineered for greater resilience against compromise and accelerated detection of anomalous activity. One of the first changes you will…
Consortium admins have always had to bounce between member instances to piece together a system-wide view. We streamlined that. IgniteAI Ask Your Data now answers questions across every Canvas instance in a consortium from a single query, with the right access controls already in place. What's new Root-account admins on…
We’re excited to share that some of our most popular IgniteAI features are coming soon for Canvas customers in Canada, giving institutions more ways to bring secure, in-context AI into everyday teaching and learning workflows. Beginning in June, Canadian customers will be able to access two premium IgniteAI features in…
We rolled out a security improvement to the API key creation flow for Data Access Platform. Every new API key generated through Identity Services at identity.instructure.com now requires an email verification step before it can be used. Important scope note: This change applies only to API keys created through Identity…
Since the launch of IgniteAI, we've been inspired by how institutions are moving from AI curiosity to everyday AI practice. Educators are already using these tools to reclaim one of their most valuable resources: time. From reorganizing entire course modules in seconds with IgniteAI Agent to drafting meaningful feedback in…
Update, June 15: We’re postponing the cookie consent release. We’ve decided to postpone the release of the cookie consent banner, which was planned for June 17 to give customers more time to plan. We expect this will be delayed by about 30 days We’ll update this post with the new release date as soon as it’s confirmed. A…
Institutions across our final New Quizzes webinar session shared a consistent message: successful adoption depends less on the technical rollout itself and more on how institutions support people through change. Our panelists discussed practical strategies for communication, training, migration planning, and faculty…
Long-term trends are hard to spot when your data window is short. Month-over-month comparisons, seasonal patterns, and historical baselines all need history to work. Until now, IgniteAI Ask Your Data hasn't had enough weblogs history to support those longer questions. We're extending weblogs retention in Ask Your Data to a…
When we first shared plans to retire Portfolium and the legacy Canvas ePortfolio, we set a sunset date of June 30, 2026. Since then, we've heard from a lot of you — in community threads, on customer calls, and through our CSM and product teams in every region. The feedback came through clearly: migrating to a new tool is a…