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One of the largest measures of the student experience in the US comes from The National Survey of Student Engagement or NSSE. Each year, NSSE collects information from first-year and senior students about the characteristics and quality of their undergraduate experience. Students’ sense of belonging is one of the many…
Drumroll please...The Impact winners for 2020! We hope that their efforts will inspire you to take your LMS usage to the next level too. Best Newcomer: George Brown College We have had so many customers join us this past year, making this an especially tough category! The winner we selected has been so invested since Day…
We asked a few of our customers who use campaign messages extensively what qualities make for effective messaging. From their responses, we offer five best practices for getting end-users to engage with your custom messaging. * Be Selective with Messaging While messaging can be a great tool to get information across, too…
Our newest set of Universe campaigns are designed to serve as a template to get campus information and alerts disbursed quickly! These templates can be on file for emergency use. Simply copy and paste these templates into your EesySoft dashboard and have crisis communication ready if emergency circumstances arise about…
Applicable Learning Management System(s): Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, D2L Campaign Description: A campaign to remind students of academic support services available as students approach midterms and end-of-term assessments and to remind and instructors of assessment tools and support available Submitted by (and on behalf…
Messages for Students Welcome Back to Campus This campaign is designed to help students and faculty transition back to on-campus learning by providing updated policies and procedures. View Campaign Promoting Virtual Academic Services Students may not realize the support services they rely on when on-campus and still…
Regardless of location, size, or funding, one commonality between all institutions is the need to promote inclusion and diversity in the campus community. The concept of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have long been on the agenda for higher education (Nunes, 2021). As we navigate back to in-person learning, the…
At the end of their Spring 2021 semester, The University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton decided to make the transition from Blackboard Learn to Blackboard with Ultra Base Navigation (UBN). To ensure seamless integration, UACCM opted to use Impact to help with their transition. LMS migration at Impact is guided…
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…