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Canvas LMS
New!
What's new?
Allows instructors to assign tags to assignments and other course content without collaboration or visibility among tag group members.
Why is it valuable?
Allows instructors to provide a more personalized learning experience easier
What's new?
In enabled courses, students and teacher have the option to translate a discussion which will show both the original and the translated version of replies and discussion topic.
Why is it valuable?
Overcoming language barriers: Students from diverse linguistic backgrounds can participate fully, even if they're not fluent in the course's primary language.
What's new?
A Discussion Insights page is available on the Discussion page, where instructors can generate an Insights report for the initial posts. These generated evaluations are shown in the Improved Speedgrader.
Why is it valuable?
When grading, instructors can save time by reviewing the evaluation notes instead of reading the entire response.
What's new?
Educators can now upload source material (PDF, doc, text) and use an intelligent assistant to generate items aligned with specific learning objectives and standards.
Why is it valuable?
Item Authoring Assistance drastically reduces the time and effort instructors spend on assessment creation, a common bottleneck in instructional design. By quickly generating relevant and pedagogically aligned questions
from existing course content, it frees up educators to focus on teaching and student engagement.
What's new?
Downloadable reports to provide insights into portfolio activity.
Admin-only access to portfolio-level reporting.
Early capabilities to search and review portfolio ownership
(stretch).
Why is it valuable?
Institutions need visibility into how portfolios are being created and used. Providing reporting options helps admins monitor adoption, track activity, and manage portfolios more effectively.
What's new?
Notifications for key portfolio activities for learners and educators.
Why is it valuable?
Timely notifications help learners stay on top of portfolio assignments, feedback, and milestones, while enabling educators to efficiently track submissions, provide feedback, and monitor learner engagement. This
ensures key actions aren’t missed and communication flows more smoothly.
Improved!
What's new?
Instructors will have the ability to pin discussion replies and a new, dedicated space will be displayed to show pinned posts at the top of the discussion topic.
Why is it valuable?
Instructors can draw attention to certain replies which are helpful for students and help student engagement.
What's new?
When setting up a graded Discussion, a third-party app to check plagiarism can be enabled. Speedgrader will display reports returned by these apps.
Why is it valuable?
Instructors can enforce students to write engaging, original replies to their Discussion boards.
What's new?
A discussion Summary button is visible for instructors. By clicking the button an AI based summary will be generated. The user can add a custom prompt for the AI to focus on.
Why is it valuable?
Instructor's can quickly understand how the conversation is going in a Discussion without the need of going through all replies.
What's new?
Learners can download their entire portfolio for offline access and sharing. All embedded files and media can be packaged into a downloadable ZIP file.
Why is it valuable?
Providing export options ensures learners can take their work with them, share it in different contexts, and preserve it for the future.
What's new?
A redesigned, modern interface built for ease of use, personalization, and visual polish—making portfolios more intuitive and professional-looking. Learners can independently create and customize Showcase
Portfolios without needing educator or admin setup. Learners can create portfolio-specific evidence (e.g., projects, extracurricular activities, professional experience) directly within their portfolio. Learners
can tag evidence with key competencies, helping highlight strengths and making the portfolio easier to navigate or scan. Learners can pull in previously completed Canvas Assignments, helping showcase real academic
work alongside self-created content.
Why is it valuable?
Without a self-directed portfolio tool, learners struggle to present their learning journey in a professional, compelling way. This feature gives them complete ownership and creative control, helping them
confidently tell their story with evidence that reflects who they are and what they can do.
What's new?
Learners can generate shareable links for full portfolios or individual evidence items. Direct posting to LinkedIn from within the portfolio platform to highlight achievements with one click. Flexible visibility
settings that allow learners to control who can access their shared content.
Why is it valuable?
Learners today need seamless ways to demonstrate their skills and accomplishments beyond their institutions. By enabling sharing and direct LinkedIn posting, learners gain greater visibility and control over their
professional presence. Institutions benefit from increased learner engagement and enhanced reputation as their students showcase validated achievements in wider professional networks.
What's new?
Educators can view all evaluation portfolios in one place, then drill down to individual portfolios and their associated evidence. Within each portfolio, educators can track submission statuses at the evidence
level. Educators can provide written feedback on individual pieces of evidence—including projects, extracurricular activities, professional experiences, and assignments (Canvas Assignments are commented on in
SpeedGrader). Educators can mark non-assignment evidence as complete or not complete. Revision requests are always linked to educator feedback to support learner improvement. All Canvas Assignments linked to
portfolios continue to be graded via SpeedGrader.
Why is it valuable?
This set of improvements empowers educators to:
- Efficiently access and evaluate submitted evaluation portfolios
- Monitor learner progress across various types of
evidence
- Provide meaningful, item-level feedback
- Support competency-based learning through clear, consistent assessments
- Streamline grading by keeping Canvas
Assignments within SpeedGrader
What's new?
Learners can view and open all assigned evaluation portfolios directly from a new Portfolio app in the main Canvas navigation. Each portfolio includes detailed guidance from educators, including evidence
requirements and submission expectations. Learners can add coursework, extracurricular projects, professional experiences and include images, videos, documents, and more. For group-based evidence, learners can tag
teammates from the assigned learner group linked to the associated Canvas course. Learners can add reflective narratives to each evidence item to contextualize their submissions and align them with demonstrated
competencies.
Why is it valuable?
This update enables a holistic and learner-friendly portfolio experience, helping students:
- Track what’s expected of them in assigned portfolios
- Submit a wide range of
evidence—from coursework to real-world experiences
- Reflect on their development through guided prompts
- Earn recognition for competencies and achievements
What's new?
Educators can choose specific Canvas courses to populate learner groups and relevant assignments that serve as portfolio requirements. The interface enables educators to create a portfolio by building sections
with specific evidence expectations. Educators can define what type of evidence learners need to submit. Educators can associate specific competencies with portfolio evidence. These competencies roll up to the full
portfolio and are verified upon completion of all associated evidence. Educators can optionally award a Canvas Credentials badge when learners complete the portfolio.
Why is it valuable?
This update empowers educators to implement scalable, portfolio-based single or multi-course evaluation. It supports deeper insights into learner development by enabling educators to:
- Define
structured expectations for portfolio submissions
- Connect evaluation portfolios to Canvas courses and assignments
- Recognize learner accomplishments through
badges
- Tag evidence to relevant competencies for outcome-based assessment
What's new?
New Quizzes data will soon be available in DAP/CD2, providing seamless access to key data points for analysis. Institutions will be able to retrieve quiz performance metrics, student data, and outcomes at
scale.
Why is it valuable?
This update empowers institutions to leverage New Quizzes data for detailed analysis, supporting data-driven decision-making in areas such as student performance tracking, outcomes assessment, and instructional
improvement.
What's new?
Administrators can manage all sub-accounts and courses where an LTI 1.3 tool is available and unavailable for use from the root account level. Multiple sub-accounts and courses can share the same deployment
ID.
Why is it valuable?
It's easy to set a tool to default to be available and add exceptions where it should not be available or vice versa, making tool management much simpler and making it easy to see where a tool is set up from one
central location. Having multiple sub-accounts and courses share a single deployment ID reduces the need to go back-and-forth with vendors during setup and when creating new courses or sub-accounts.
What's new?
New Quizzes content will now be rendered natively within the Canvas environment, supporting the immediate, seamless use of core Canvas features and LTI tools (e.g., Readaloud, screen readers, translation services) that
were previously blocked by the iFrame.
Why is it valuable?
This technical upgrade delivers a truly native Canvas experience, making New Quizzes feel integrated and intuitive. Crucially, it unlocks compatibility for essential external tools like read-aloud and translation
services, ensuring assessments are fully accessible and equitable for students with diverse learning and language needs (ELL/ELD).
Canvas Catalog
New!
Improved!
What's new?
New API endpoint allowing admins to update user-defined fields after registration
Why is it valuable?
Before this update, admins couldn’t update UDFs once a student registered, forcing them to rely on spreadsheets, emails, or external systems. Now, they can update these fields programmatically through our API,
saving time, reducing errors, and enabling seamless workflows tied to student progress, certification, and reporting.
What's new?
- Automated emails for abandoned carts, with customizable content and timing
- Flexible timing rules
- Option to set a minimum cart amount before a nudge is
triggered
- Inclusion and exclusion rules to avoid sending reminders to users who already enrolled
- New reporting widgets in Analytics
Why is it valuable?
When students add a course to their cart but do not check out, it represents lost opportunity. Until now, there was no visibility into these events and no way to follow up. With automated cart recovery emails,
admins can re-engage these high-intent users and convert more of them into enrolled learners. It also improves the student experience by offering a smooth return path and reduces the burden on the staff to track
down incomplete registrations.
What's new?
- Automated nudging based on time elapsed since a student enrolled
- Default templates for welcome or reminder emails with customizable content
- Trigger rules
-
Updated Analytics
- Summary widgets
- New email template variables
Why is it valuable?
Many students enroll but never start their course. Without timely follow-up, these learners often disengage completely. Until now, admins had no way to automate outreach based on enrollment timing, forcing them to
rely on manual emails or external tools. With post-enrollment nudging built into Catalog, they can encourage learners to take the first step without burdening our staff or missing key engagement moments.
What's new?
A new setting that allows admins to restrict enrollments by approved email domains
No more need for custom JavaScript or manual monitoring
Available at both the catalog and
sub-catalog level
Works seamlessly with existing Catalog enrollment and user management workflows
Why is it valuable?
By enforcing domain-based restrictions at the enrollment level, admins can now prevent unauthorized access to paid or restricted courses.
What's new?
Direct refund capability for PayPal transactions in Catalog refund interface
Real-time status updates for refunds
Unified refund interface for PayPal, Stripe, and
Authorize.net to simplify training and operations
Admin permission controls to restrict who can issue refunds
Audit logging of refund actions for transparency and
traceability
Full compatibility with existing checkout flows, bulk purchases, and promo codes
Why is it valuable?
PayPal is a widely-used payment method at institutions, but until now, refunding PayPal transactions required manual effort and introduced delays. With this new functionality, the admins can resolve refund
requests quickly and confidently within Catalog itself.
What's new?
A new Refund button added directly in the Orders tab within Catalog Analytics
Ability to issue full or partial refunds from within Catalog
Role-based permission controls to
determine who can issue refunds
Analytics and reporting updates that track refund activity across time
Why is it valuable?
Refund processing has historically been a manual, disjointed experience that required logging into Stripe and reconciling records separately. With this enhancement, we gain a centralized and simplified refund
process that reduces workload for our staff, eliminates unnecessary back-and-forth, and enhances the learner experience by making financial interactions faster and more transparent.
What's new?
Built-in support for processing Authorize.net refunds within the existing Catalog refund interface
Real-time refund status updates displayed in Catalog, based on Authorize.net’s
response
Admin-facing controls to initiate and track full or partial refunds
Audit log entries for every refund attempt and outcome
Error handling and
clear messages when a refund fails
Consistent experience for Stripe and Authorize.net refund workflows
Why is it valuable?
Previously, managing refunds required admins to exit Catalog and navigate the Authorize.net portal what was an inefficient process and prone to errors. By bringing Authorize.net refunds into Catalog, admins can
handle learner refund requests faster and with fewer mistakes. This helps them provide a better learner experience while simplifying the tasks of our administrative teams.
Canvas Credentials
New!
Improved!
What's new?
Admins can enable a view‑only role in deployment preferences, giving instructors read‑only access to course badges, pathway subscriptions, learner progress, and leaderboards, with all editing disabled.
Why is it valuable?
Removes the choice between granting full permissions or none at all. Reduces the risk of accidental changes while still giving instructors the visibility they need to monitor progress and support
credentialing.
What's new?
When linking a badge to an assignment, the trigger is auto‑set from Canvas grading. Letter Grade is now available as a trigger, letting issuers set thresholds (e.g., B‑ or higher) from the course grading scheme.
Badge progress updates automatically when grading changes.
Why is it valuable?
Eliminates manual setup and mismatches, ensuring badges reflect true assignment performance. Now supports percentage, points, completion, and letter grade thresholds pulled directly from Canvas grading
schemes.
Canvas Commons
No new items announced this quarter.
Canvas Data 2
No new items announced this quarter.
Canvas Studio
New!
Improved!
What's new?
The caption editor can filtered for showing blocks with suspected inaccuracies.
Why is it valuable?
Educators spend a significant amount of time correcting their captions, which will be even more prominent after the DOJ ruling begins to take effect in April 2026 that mandates accessible captions for all video
content.
Intelligent Insights
New!
What's new?
Ask Your Data has now access to weblogs, enabling users to query, visualize and gain insights from this data set.
Why is it valuable?
Ask Your Data, the conversational AI module of Intelligent Insights has now access to New Quizzes data, enabling users to ask questions on the subject.
What's new?
Browse and copy pre-built pinboards from Instructure’s new curated catalog in Ask Your Data.
Why is it valuable?
Curated pinboards give users a helpful starting point, making it easier to explore common use cases and understand what’s possible with Ask Your Data.
What's new?
A new report in Intelligent Insights
Why is it valuable?
Administratively dropping students who are not participating saves the institution money and the administrative burden of having to rescind aid after disbursement. Institutions are required to have processes for
documenting student attendance and participation, and this documentation is crucial for demonstrating compliance with federal regulations if they are audited.
What's new?
A new institution-specific knowledge base that the AI references when generating answers.
Why is it valuable?
This ensures AI-generated insights are accurate, relevant, and aligned with each institution’s unique policies and terminology.
Improved!
Impact
New!
What's new?
Admins will be able to customize and set low usage alerts for individual LTI tools as it makes sense for their institutions.
Why is it valuable?
Admins will be able to quickly and easily see and know when a tool isn't being used as it should be in order to take meaningful action.
Improved!
What's new?
Enable access to securely send messages, create user groups, and retrieve Impact data regarding messaging via API.
Why is it valuable?
Our public-facing APIs will enhance collaboration and innovation, expand reach and opportunities, support scalability and
flexibility, and increase efficiency and productivity.
What's new?
New and improved design and user experience to be more accessible, streamlined, and meaningful, as well as be more consistent with other Instructure products.
Why is it valuable?
Saves Impact Admins time and energy by greatly improving usability and functionality when trying to create walkthroughs.
What's new?
All Canvas Sub-Account Admins will be able to view LTI usage data for their sub-account(s) as part of the new Monitor tab in Canvas Apps.
Why is it valuable?
Sub-Account Admins need/want to see LTI usage data for their sub-accounts, so that they can analyze and make informed decisions under their purview.
What's new?
Integration partners as well as large institutions with multiple instances will benefit from being able to push content out to multiple Impact instances with control.
Why is it valuable?
Allows for greater control of the content pushed out from multiple content masters including when the content is pushed out.
LearnPlatform
New!
Improved!
What's new?
1. The Workflow Summary page is now accessible from Management>Products.
2. A new Applications Summary page is now available for each product.
Why is it valuable?
Holistically see information and statuses for a product without navigating away from the product pages.
Elevate Data Quality
New!
Improved!
What's new?
PEIMS Class Roster Winter submission validations updated for the 2025-26 school year
PEIMS Early Childhood Data System submission validations updated for the 2025-26 school year
Why is it valuable?
Using our updated PEIMS rule library, Texas school districts can validate their data with the latest state requirements to deliver accurate data and unlock all potential state funding.
What's new?
PEIMS Mid-Year submission validations updated for the 2025-26 school year
Why is it valuable?
Using our updated PEIMS rule library, Texas school districts can validate their data with the latest state requirements to deliver accurate data and unlock all potential state funding.
Elevate Standards Alignment
No new items announced this quarter.
Canvas LMS
New!
Improved!
Canvas Catalog
No new items announced this quarter.
Canvas Credentials
New!
Improved!
Canvas Commons
No new items announced this quarter.
Canvas Data 2
No new items announced this quarter.
Canvas Studio
New!
Improved!
Intelligent Insights
New!
Improved!
Impact
New!
Improved!
LearnPlatform
No new items announced this quarter.
Elevate Data Quality
New!
Improved!
Elevate Standards Alignment
No new items announced this quarter.
Canvas LMS
No new items announced this quarter.
Canvas Catalog
No new items announced this quarter.
Canvas Credentials
No new items announced this quarter.
Canvas Commons
No new items announced this quarter.
Canvas Data 2
No new items announced this quarter.
Canvas Studio
No new items announced this quarter.
Intelligent Insights
No new items announced this quarter.
Impact
No new items announced this quarter.
LearnPlatform
No new items announced this quarter.
Elevate Data Quality
No new items announced this quarter.
Elevate Standards Alignment
No new items announced this quarter.
