Sign in to enhance your access to articles, forums, and events—and to participate by sharing insights, engaging in discussions, and connecting with your network of edtech peers.
Are there any good colours for a person who is red-green colour blind to use on the calendar? I've been struggling to find good colours to use to see each of my classes, but none of them seem to work very well, as there are very few distinct colours.
Cornell University’s Center for Teaching Innovation created the Canvas Course Spotlight program — a program offering Cornell students the chance to highlight and recognize design elements of Canvas courses that have positively impacted their learning experience. The program solicits nominations from students via an online…
During conversation with customers, a common question that arises during budget season is, "How can we determine which resources our learners are utilizing to inform our purchasing decisions for the upcoming fiscal year?" I am happy to report that those conversations are now easier with the release of the Apps and LTI…
Looking for the addition of partial credit for alternative format questions in Canvas, like ordering and category/matrix. We can only do it in close drop down, matching, and multiple response.
Hello! I'm helping faculty set up outcomes and we are wondering how to align multiple program-level outcomes to a senior capstone project. I apologize if I've missed something obvious. We're not very far into implementing outcomes, but I haven't found an answer after searching the community. Thank you!
One of my assignments defaulted to the grades not being visible. Meaning no student can see the comments I left for them. How can I change that visibility? I don't want them to see each other's grades, just their own.
I received this message from a teacher in my district. This is not the first time I have heard about this issue. As an admin, I see it when moving from masquerade mode to the admin screen. Canvas seems to frequently drop my login. For example, when I'm working on a page or through Speedgrader, a page won't respond. When I…
Hello Canvas community.. I am looking for someone with experience with Pearson textbooks (specifically for math if that matters). We were talking with our Math faculty about how they use Pearson for testing but that students could just go around Canvas and take the test unproctored by going directly to Pearson. Since I…
Whenever a student turns in late work I have to manually change the grade from missing to late even after I enter a grade. It automatically changes it if I use speedgrader, but not when I am at the gradebook. When I enter my pile of late work at the end of the week it doesn't make sense to go to each speedgrader option…
I have an instructor that says at a previous university, he was able to export all student quiz responses. He wasn't sure if he was using Classic or New Quizzes, but I'm not seeing a way to do that in either one. I showed him the reports, but those aren't what he's looking for, he wants to export all student responses.…
Hi Setting up a rubric using the import rubric template csv file, content looks like it conforms to the requirements, but when I upload the file no rubric appears. Is there any way to see that has gone wrong during the import, trying to see if I have stuffed up the format of the import csv file. Thanks Ian
Has anyone found gaps in their course analytics ? I'm currently seeing missing last view date, last participation date, and participations at overall course level, even though the same data is present at individual week and student level. Am also seeing truncated asset counts ie we are seeing only the global header counts,…
Learn about Canvas LMS, browse guides, and get answers from fellow Community members.
Learn about the Canvas mobile apps, browse guides, and get answers from fellow Community members.
Learn about Canvas Studio, browse guides, and get answers from fellow Community members.
Learn about Canvas Catalog, browse guides, and get answers from fellow Community members.
Learn about using Folio, the Canvas Outcomes Assessment Platform, TalentMatch, and the Tennessee Student Growth Portfolio.
Learn about Intelligent Insights, browse guides, and get answers from fellow Community members.
Learn about SIS integrations, browse guides, and get answers from fellow Community members.
This week, I had the honor of sharing all of our highly anticipated new features with my friend and colleague, Zach Pendleton (@zachp) via our first-ever New & Next Showcase. Over one thousand educators, administrators, and edtech leaders joined us for a look into the evolution of the New & Next product update series that…
On January 17, 2026, the Performance and Usability Upgrades for SpeedGrader will officially enter General Availability (GA). At that time, the feature option will default to ON for all institutions, while still allowing admins to opt out if they need more time to prepare. Full enforcement will follow in July 2026. These…
We’re excited to announce a powerful new compliance feature coming to Intelligent Insights for all our Higher Education (HE) customers in the United States: The Title IV Financial Aid report! This report will be released on December 12th, ensuring your administration teams have it available to start using for the upcoming…
We’re excited to introduce Surveys as a new quiz type for New Quizzes, designed to help educators more easily gather feedback, gauge understanding, or foster open reflection from their students. Surveys can be configured to collect anonymous or non-anonymous feedback, and graded or ungraded, offering flexibility to meet…
Your learners' journeys do not stop at enrollment. Often, the most important data comes after a course has begun: license numbers, phone updates, mailing addresses. Until now, updating that information wasn’t possible in Canvas Catalog. With our new API-only, Post-Registration UDF Editing, Catalog makes it easy to keep…
As we shared in October, the Portfolio tool will be generally available in Canvas this month! We understand that some institutions may want to opt out ahead of the GA release to avoid having the feature be on by default. To support this, we’ve prepared a self-serve option that allows your team to maintain full control over…
Dear Parchment Digital Badges Community, Every term, instructors work hard to guide learners toward their goals, helping them earn badges, complete pathways, and celebrate progress.. Until now, giving instructors access to see that progress inside Canvas also meant giving them full control, including the ability to manage…
We’re pleased to announce a new partnership between Instructure and Flywire, bringing global tuition payment capabilities directly into Canvas Catalog. This integration is now live and allows institutions to support international programs with secure, localized, and compliant payment infrastructure. Why Flywire? Flywire is…
We’re excited to announce the release of DAP CLI 2.1.0, bringing smarter performance handling, improved stability, and even emoji support 🎉. As part of our ongoing commitment to improving the Data Access Platform (DAP) experience, this update makes the CLI more resilient, reliable, and user-friendly — especially for…
Earlier this month, we announced the infrastructure upgrade powering the Canvas Data 2 (CD2) / DAP Query API, to Snowflake. We’re excited to share that this transition is progressing as planned and brings significant improvements in data fidelity, scalability, and performance. As we have finalized the migration plan for…
Join us for LearnPlatform’s Virtual Office 1/2 Hour to review best practices to keep your EdTech library clean, accurate, and compliant. With new product requests slowing down, now is the ideal time to be proactive and focus on your existing ecosystem. We'll show you how to move past manual, year-end updates by leveraging…
Join Peerceptiv + Canvas for a live session on how peer learning supports the development of human-centered skills in the age of AI. See how Peerceptiv’s integration streamlines Peer Review, Peer Assessment, Group Formation, and Team Member Evaluation—all within Canvas. Featuring DeAnna Schlebach from Texas A&M University,…
Celebrate the year’s biggest moments and what’s next for 2026 Join us for a special New & Next edition as we celebrate this year’s biggest moments, reflect on what we’ve achieved, and look ahead to what’s coming in 2026. We’ll spotlight the ideas and innovations that have defined 2025, from the launch of Canvas Portfolio…
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…
Whether you’re new to Canvas or looking to expand your skills, each Klatch session offers a welcoming space to share ideas, ask questions, and learn from one another. As a K12 Canvas Admin and Technology Instructional Specialist, I am passionate about helping teachers simplify their workflow, make the most of their time,…
We’re excited to welcome you into the newly refreshed Instructure Community, powered by Higher Logic Vanilla! In this live session, we’ll give you a guided tour of the Community, highlighting key features, showcasing some delightful updates, and sharing tips to help you feel right at home. You’ll discover where to find…
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 CVC@ONE: Introduction to Teaching with Canvas Advanced Techniques with Canvas Online Teaching and Design Equity & Culturally Responsive Online Teaching Humanizing Online…
The keynotes and sessions in Spokane may be over, but the conversation is just getting started. Join us for the InstructureCon25 Encore Series—a book club for the Instructure Community that brings the voices of featured speakers into your everyday learning. One book at a time, we’ll read, reflect, and keep the…