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Drive adoption with a strong tagging foundation in Impact. Before creating guides in Impact, take a few minutes and learn how to create new Page and Feature Tags within your application. These tags help ensure your guides appear in the right place within your application-and give you valuable insights into how users…
We've added 10 new out-of-the-box (OOTB) Shared Layouts to Impact by Instructure. Each one started life as an Impact Legacy walkthrough or message campaign, and we've redesigned them as multistep guides for both instructor and student workflows: OOTB | Walkthrough: Course Content Check OOTB | Walkthrough: Course Settings…
We've just released nine new Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) Shared Layouts for Canvas covering both instructor and student workflows: OOTB | Publish a course: Instructors OOTB | Walkthrough: Global navigation check OOTB | Walkthrough: Global Navigation menu (Students) OOTB | Walkthrough: Global Navigation menu (Instructors) OOTB |…
We'd like to announce that we've started publishing new guide layouts for Canvas Release Notes (Instructor and Student) in your environment: OOTB | Release of April 18th, 2026: Instructor OOTB | Release of April 18th, 2026: Student The first layout is available for the April 18th Canvas release, with more layouts coming…
Making Courses More Inclusive, One Step at a Time It’s time to take accessibility to the next level with Impact’s new Accessibility Campaign suite. Building on the success of last year’s accessibility campaign “Accessibility in a Canvas Course”, this new suite provides instructors with practical guidance to create text,…
Having the right out-of-the-box content (OOTB) can be a time saver and help you get the most out of the Impact platform To ensure the OOTB content requests are reviewed and prioritized appropriately, the Impact Content team has streamlined the OOTB Content request process. Now when you have a request for OOTB content to be…
Calling all Impact Admins and Faculty: your insights matter! At Instructure, we're committed to making teaching and learning more effective, intuitive, and supported. That’s why we’re launching a new research initiative in collaboration with the Instructure Research team and Impact R&D team—and we need your help. What’s…
To support better decision-making and cleaner data reporting, Impact Content is rolling out two important updates regarding Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) LTI Launch-only monitors and the Campaign Monitors Report. First, the OOTB LTI Launch-only monitors will be categorized as legacy. Second, the Campaign Monitors Report will be…
A monitor becomes a legacy monitor once it no longer gathers data or is no longer valid. This can happen due to feature updates, feature changes, or new functionalities replacing current ones in Canvas LMS. To differentiate between legacy and functioning monitors, the tool category “Legacy Monitors” is assigned to the…
Time to elevate assessment across your institution with Canvas’s New Quizzes as a dynamic upgrade. New Quizzes provide powerful features that enhance quiz-building for instructors while creating a more engaging, personalized experience for students. With dynamic item types, robust reporting, and improved accommodations,…