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Canvas Roadmap Update: What We Heard and What’s Next
One of the most valuable parts of building Canvas is learning directly from the people who use it every day. Earlier this year, we introduced the Canvas Collaborative Roadmap to create a more transparent, ongoing way for customers to share contributions, vote on roadmap cards, and help shape future investments. In just a…
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Canvas Career Roadmap Recap: July 2026
We’re excited to share where Canvas Career is headed and how customer feedback is shaping our roadmap for the second half of 2026. Over the past two quarters, customers have helped sharpen our priorities as Canvas Career moves from launch into maturity: reducing barriers to learning activation, connecting learners through…
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Scale Consistent Assessment Practices by Linking Canvas Blueprints with Mastery Curriculum Maps
In every school district, maintaining curriculum consistency across classrooms is a foundational challenge. Educators and administrators need reliable, interconnected workflows to ensure that standard-aligned assessments seamlessly reach every student, no matter which section they are in. That’s why we’re excited to…
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A Simpler Way to Manage Your Organization in Parchment Digital Badges
Dear Parchment Digital Badges Community, As credential programs grow, so does the amount of information administrators need to manage. How are learners engaging with the badges we issue? Which issuers are driving the strongest results? How are skills being used across our organization? And when it's time to prepare a…
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TalentNeuron Labor Market Insights Go Global in Parchment Digital Badges
Dear Parchment Digital Badges Community, A skill doesn't exist in isolation. The same skill can lead to very different opportunities depending on where you are in the world. Data analysis might be one of the fastest-growing skills in one market, while employers somewhere else are struggling to find cybersecurity talent.…
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Predict learner dropout risk with IgniteAI Ask Your Data
Identifying students who need extra support is one of the most important responsibilities of an institution, and it's also one of the hardest things to do early. By the time a student is clearly struggling, the window for meaningful intervention has often already closed. That's why we're introducing predictive insights in…
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Customizable Dashboard for Learners will be enabled by default starting August 15, 2026
Since April 2026, institutions have had the option to enable the Customizable Dashboard for Learners feature option, giving students a more useful starting point each time they log in to Canvas. Starting August 15, 2026, this feature will be enabled by default at the account level. Once enabled, individual students can opt…
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Introducing Notebook: built-in note-taking for learners in Canvas.
Notebook arrives in Canvas on July 18, 2026. This new feature gives learners a built-in way to take notes and highlight key ideas inside Canvas, helping institutions provide a more connected learning experience without requiring learners to rely on separate tools. Notebook will be disabled by default, and administrators…
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Good news: We're extending free IgniteAI access for U.S. institutions through July 31.
We want to give you a little more time to explore. Free access to premium IgniteAI capabilities for U.S.-based institutions now runs through July 31, 2026 (one month beyond the original June 30 deadline). What's still available The following IgniteAI capabilities remain free to use through July 31: Canvas Plus IgniteAI…
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Peer Review, Redesigned: Smarter Allocation, Clearer Deadlines, and Meaningful Grading
Over the last several months, we’ve worked closely with our community to dive deep into the peer review experience in Canvas, a pain point that many have had for a while. We’ve heard loud and clear that while the feature has incredible potential, there were clear opportunities to improve the process. Based on your…
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Performance and Usability Upgrades for SpeedGrader will be the default experience starting July 18, 2026
Since January 2026, institutions have had the opportunity to enable the Performance and Usability Upgrades for SpeedGrader feature option and experience a faster, more responsive grading workflow. As previously announced, this feature will become the default SpeedGrader experience on July 18, 2026. Action required for…
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Catalog data is coming to the upgraded DAP Query API / CD2 API
Last November we announced a backend upgrade to the DAP Query API / CD2 API that brought higher data fidelity and a more reliable replication pipeline. Catalog data is the last namespace still served from the previous infrastructure. We're now moving it onto the same upgraded backend that every other namespace already runs…
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Clearer Insights, Actionable Progress: Learning Mastery Gradebook Enhancements
For educators, tracking student progress isn't just about final grades—it's about understanding exactly which skills and standards a student has mastered. That is where the Learning Mastery Gradebook (LMGB) comes in, offering a dedicated view to monitor outcome-based learning. Today, we are excited to announce the general…
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IgniteAI Ask Your Data now reads LTI launches and mobile logs
Admins that wanted to understand tool adoption and mobile usage questions used to need to run separate exports and develop separate analyses. They don't anymore. IgniteAI Ask Your Data now reads both LTI launch data and mobile log data, so the same conversational interface can answer questions about LTI launches and mobile…
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Help us shape the future of Canvas Beta and Test!
We want to make our non-production environments more secure, sustainable, and better aligned with how your institution actually operates. Earlier this year, this community pushed back when we changed the Beta refresh cadence. That feedback changed our decision. This is your chance to directly influence our design and…