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We're the Community Team!
The Community is a never-ending haven of collaborative threads that capture learning, discovery, and growth. The Community Team organizes and maintains over 4,200 guides for the users of Canvas, Mastery, Elevate, Impact, and LearnPlatform. It also moderates product-specific question forums, many user and special interest…
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2024 • Community Year in Review
Hello Instructure Community! 👋 As we step into 2025 with excitement and optimism, we want to reflect on the journey we shared throughout 2024. The Instructure Community is a place where collaboration flourishes, stories are shared, and continuous innovation in teaching and learning is celebrated. Looking back, 2024 was a…
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From Our Instructure Community to Yours: Wishing You a Warm Holiday Season
As the year draws to a close and the holiday season is upon us, I want to take a moment to reflect on the incredible community that makes up Instructure—educators, parents, and students alike. You are the heart and soul of what we do, and it’s a privilege to be part of a mission that supports your learning journeys every…
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Instructure Community Tips & Tricks (2024 Edition)
It is great to see so many people from all over the world with so many different backgrounds using the Instructure Community website to share their ideas, ask and help answer questions, write blog posts (similar to what I'm doing here), and so much more! I thought it might be fun to share some Community "Tips & Tricks"…
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Community Updates 2024-11-19: Canvas LMS Release Page and Partner Page Feed
We have updated the Canvas LMS Release Notes Page to provide better sorting for Releases and Deploys. Releases and Deploys each display in their own tab on the page and are divided into their own sections in the Release Archives sidebar. We have also updated the Partner Page feed to reflect updates made to the sorting and…
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Community Health Survey – Your Voice, Our Future
As the Instructure Community continues to grow and evolve, understanding what you value and need in the Community is essential. The 2024 Community Health Survey is an opportunity for you to share your experiences, ideas, and feedback to help us create a space that serves everyone better. In past years, we’ve gathered…
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Perspective is Everything: How Latinos Flip the Script on Loss by Celebrating Dia de Los Muertos on
Mental health is often viewed as a taboo subject in Latinx communities, where discussing emotions and personal struggles was discouraged for generations. Many of us, including my friends, family, and colleagues, grew up feeling that expressing our feelings was a sign of weakness, and emotional vulnerability was met with…
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Supporting Mental Wellbeing: Instructure's October Social Media Recap
October was a significant month for mental health awareness, culminating in World Mental Health Day on October 10th. At Instructure, we believe in the power of prioritizing mental well-being, and we used our social media platforms throughout the month to share resources, encourage open conversations, and foster a…
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Unlocking Mindfulness: A Special Gift for Educators from Headspace
It is with great gratitude that I am sharing this guest blog from our friends at Headspace. They have been so kind to share their passion and resources to support our mission in this Mental Wellness Hub. At Headspace, we understand that mental health is a top priority in education right now, especially when it comes to…
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Collaboration Opportunity: Investigating the Effectiveness of a Bias Detector in Educational Discour
tl:dr We are looking to partner with educators and researchers to test the effectiveness of a framework/tool to detect non-neutrality and expressions of unconscious bias in online academic discourse. This solution has the potential to reduce non-neutral and unconsciously biased language and improve students’ sense of…
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Empowering Educators in Mental Health
As we enter into Mental Health Week, I have been reflecting on a recent episode of EduCast3000 we recorded with Johanna Bjartmarsdottir, mental health advocate and founder of Harts. If you’re as passionate about mental health in education as I am, I highly encourage you to listen. Her willingness to share her story so…
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Preliminary Findings on Current Issues Facing Education
We provided a feedback opportunity for you to share how your institution is addressing key issues like media literacy and misinformation, screen time reduction, student mental health, and more. Participation was low, but the findings and insights thus far are worth deeper discussion. Designed by Freepik Why This Matters…
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Instructure Support: InstructureCon Insights and Future Plans
On behalf of the Instructure Support Teams, thank you for taking the time to provide feedback and share your experiences at InstructureCon. We greatly appreciate hearing about both the success stories and the positive interactions you’ve had. Equally valuable are the insights into areas where we can improve the customer…
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You're Invited: Cultures of Growth Book Club
The Office of Academic Strategy, the Instructure Community Team, and the Instructure Events Team are excited to announce a special read-along event featuring Cultures of Growth by Mary C. Murphy. The Book Club course, offered through Canvas Network, will extend the InstructureCon '24 experience and encourage participants…
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Forum Maintenance and Content Archival Strategy
Did you know that the Instructure Community welcomes an average of 500 new questions in our forums monthly? This number shows that Community members are driven and committed to supporting one another through the adoption, troubleshooting, and ongoing enhancement of their use of Instructure products. To better help you and…