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Release Timing: Available December 13, 2025 Regional Availability: Globally Supported Customer Type: All Canvas customers Available with: Canvas Key Takeaway: IgniteAI Question Authoring for Quizzes makes it faster for educators to create high-quality, standards-aligned multiple-choice questions in New Quizzes. Assessment…
Hi everyone, Over the past few years, I’ve spent a lot of time working inside Canvas - designing assessments, revising them, re-using them across courses, and trying to keep everything coherent as programs evolve. One thing became increasingly clear: the challenge isn’t writing good questions. It’s managing them. Between…
Behind the engineering feature teams that work to make Canvas better is the production engineering team, who are dedicated to "keeping the lights on" and delivering excellent and reliable infrastructure. This team is constantly looking for ways to improve Canvas and help you have a better experience. As we continue to…
Rolling out a new system is just the beginning. The Adoption Corner explores the small, intentional strategies that help institutions move beyond implementation and toward sustained, meaningful adoption. Each post connects day-to-day practices to long-term success using the Instructure Adoption Success Model. What’s…
Release Timing: December 13, 2025 Regional Availability: All Regions Customer Type: All customers Available with: Canvas Key Takeaways: Survey support in New Quizzes offers a seamless workflow for educators to collect both anonymous and non-anonymous student feedback, without the use of workarounds or varied account…
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…
In Spring 2025, the Center for Teaching Innovation launched the Canvas Course Spotlight — a program inviting students to spotlight specific aspects of their Canvas courses that positively impacted their learning. A Brief History of the Canvas Course Spotlight In Fall 2024, CTI surveyed Cornell faculty to learn about their…
What’s Included in This Post? • How to run a quarterly pulse check with Canvas Admin Analytics • When to use Analytics Hub for cross-product, big-picture context • Pro-tips to turn insights into action Over the past few months in the Adoption Corner series, we’ve explored how a strong vision sets the tone for success, why…
Canvas Portfolio Unlocked Introduction Canvas Portfolio transforms how educators assess learning and how learners document their growth, bringing the entire reflection and evaluation process right where the learning happens—inside Canvas. Canvas Portfolio brings together the best of teaching, learning, and reflection…
The Academic Strategy and Advance Development teams are hoping to gather your feedback on three draft state rubrics designed to capture the essential elements of a course design review in an LMS. This research is an early step in a larger proof-of-concept effort to determine whether aspects of course design—such as…
This year, we’re exploring how educators, technologists, and leaders reach learners at every stage from first enrollment to lifelong growth. Join the discussion and share your ideas, learnings from CanvasCon, examples or challenges in any of these areas: * Engaging students and improving outcomes What’s helping your…