Opportunities to gain early access and provide feedback on features currently in development across Canvas, Mastery, Parchment, and the Instructure platform.
If your institution is selected to participate, a member of our product team will update the status of this opportunity and provide next steps directly within the platform. Please note that because interest often exceeds capacity, we cannot guarantee participation for every institution. To help you make an informed decision, each opportunity clearly outlines the feature's current stage of development:
You can learn more about expectations by reading our guide: What are the product testing stages?
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The problem we’re solving Finding key tools and moving across Canvas should feel effortless, yet navigating between everyday features often requires hunting through separate bars and menus. We’ve redesigned the Navigation to streamline your daily workflow, maximize screen space, and make finding what you need far more…
The problem we’re solving Students with visual impairments or learning differences often miss out on critical educational content because standard video tools lack accessible, integrated audio descriptions. We're solving this by bringing seamless audio description capabilities directly into Canvas Studio, ensuring every…
We are creating a new view for admins with IgniteAI Agent usage and credit information. Help us shape this view so it includes the info and settings you need to manage IgniteAI Agent at your institution. Note: this testing opportunity is for institutions on the Canvas Next tier
Related roadmap opportunity Unified Canvas Insights Dashboard on Canvas Roadmap Administrators can explore all Canvas and Intelligent Insights data from a single, cohesive hub. By unifying these analytics, the dashboard reduces friction and simplifies data-driven decision-making across the institution. The problem we’re…
The problem we're solving We're building the faculty side of the Classic to New Quizzes migration experience, and we want to make it as smooth and painless as possible. We want to understand what actually happens when you migrate a quiz or question bank - what you check afterward, what "smooth" looks like, and what would…
The problem we’re solving We’re exploring a set of new chemistry assessment item types for Mastery Connect. Reaching out to high school chemistry teachers specifically, but also middle school science teachers who instruct on foundational chemistry ideas. We are looking for feedback on the usefulness of these chemistry…
With the Wooclap tool in IgniteAI Agent, you can use the Agent to create Wooclap activities informed by your course content from a single prompt. We are looking for institutions to test this feature and provide feedback on it. Note: participation requires IgniteAI Agent access
Be one of the first to test file upload in IgniteAI Agent! Upload documents and images to your conversations to build out modules and assignments from a syllabus, add notes from a whiteboard straight into your course, and more. We are looking for institutions to test the feature and to provide feedback on any additional…
Institutions and partners can connect AI agents to Canvas through one open standard. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) server presents Canvas capabilities as tools an agent can use, always acting as the signed-in user with their existing permissions. Institutions choose what is enabled, so admins, educators, students, and…
Related roadmap opportunity Peer-to-Peer Communication The problem we’re solving Canvas Career learners are going through career- relevant learning largely in isolation. There's no built-in way for them to connect with peers who are in the same career track, cohort, or professional context, which means: No peer support…