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The Elevate Newsletter has been discontinued. While this resource is still valuable to Community members, please evaluate the content to ensure its accuracy. JUNE 2021 Partner Spotlight: Newsela Leverages Academic Benchmarks for Efficient Alignment As the provider of instructional content and resources for teachers and…
The Elevate Newsletter has been discontinued. While this resource is still valuable to Community members, please evaluate the content to ensure its accuracy. Branding Changes Our Product Name Changed. The Functionality and Support You Love Are Not. If you haven’t had a chance yet to check out the new Instructure Brand…
The Elevate Newsletter has been discontinued. While this resource is still valuable to Community members, please evaluate the content to ensure its accuracy. Partnerships From time to time we get asked by customers, new and old, who our other customers are so that they can develop partnerships for the content available on…
The Elevate Newsletter has been discontinued. While this resource is still valuable to Community members, please evaluate the content to ensure its accuracy. Product Update Pre-Kindergarten Documents We are considering a change to our supported document policy for Pre-K documents. We’d love to get feedback from customers…
The Elevate Newsletter has been discontinued. While this resource is still valuable to Community members, please evaluate the content to ensure its accuracy. CX Summit At the end of May, all Instructure Customer Success Managers were invited to attend a CX Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Summit allowed many CSMs to…
Release notes outline upcoming customer-impacting changes that are expected to be displayed in production environments. Please note that features considered for future development are not included in the notes. Updated Features Alignment App Search Endpoints Summary Alignment App search endpoints are introduced to improve…
The Elevate Newsletter has been discontinued. While this resource is still valuable to Community members, please evaluate the content to ensure its accuracy. Industry News by Chad Kinart Recently, I had the opportunity to travel to several conferences and talk with other colleagues about education and what is currently…
The Elevate Newsletter has been discontinued. While this resource is still valuable to Community members, please evaluate the content to ensure its accuracy. AUGUST 2020 Expanding Your Alignments with AB Connect Use all the benefits of your AB Connect license to expand content alignments to other states. Watch the video to…
5 To-Do List Improvements That Make Studying EasierManaging schoolwork on a phone shouldn’t require three apps and a mental spreadsheet. For millions of students, the Canvas mobile To-Do list is the first place they check to understand their day. In fact, it’s the most-visited screen in the entire app, opened almost 200…
Callout: This blog post is part of the Mastery Connect Feature Spotlight series, where we highlight enhancements and updates designed to make your experience simpler and more powerful. In every classroom, teaching and assessment go hand in hand. Educators know that frequent, formative checks for understanding are essential…
Release Timing: December 19: Generally Available as Feature Option Customer Type: K12 Available with: Mastery Connect Key takeaway: IgniteAI Item Authoring for Assessments makes it faster to create high-quality, standards-aligned multiple-choice items in Mastery Connect. Assessment content creation can be one of the most…
Dear Parchment Digital Badges Community! As 2025 comes to a close, we’re taking a moment to pause, reflect, and say something we don’t say often enough: thank you. Thank you for choosing us as your credentialing partner. Thank you for sharing your feedback, your struggles, and your vision. Also in the power of credentials…
Every institution has its own language, policies, and ways of working — and now IgniteAI Ask Your Data in Intelligent Insights can speak yours. The new Context Library feature is designed to make AI-generated insights more accurate, relevant, and aligned with your institution’s unique environment. Earlier this year, we…
We're excited to announce important updates to our Files API, designed to bring you a more secure and efficient experience when working with your files. These changes reflect our commitment to following current best practices and providing you with the most robust tools possible. Previous Change: File UUIDs Transitioned…
At the end of October, the Instructure team had the chance to spend a full day onsite with Belmont University in Nashville, TN for a Customer Discovery Session (CDS) focused on the future of course design and assessment. Belmont is an innovative institution that has deliberately evolved its digital learning approach over…
The day after CanvasCon EMEA wrapped up in Oslo, a group of learning technologists and administrators from across Europe, Middle East and Africa, joined us for the second time this year for a focused Customer Discovery Session (CDS). Where CanvasCon was about sharing what’s new, this day was about listening: understanding…
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…
The keynotes and sessions in Spokane may be over, but the conversation is just getting started. Join us for the Book Club: 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 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…