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IgniteAI in Action: Highlights from the November New & Next Showcase
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…
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Performance and Usability Upgrades for SpeedGrader Goes to General Availability In January!
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…
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Title IV Compliance Simplified: Intelligent Insights Financial Aid Report available on December 12th
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…
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Surveys are coming to New Quizzes!
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…
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Maintain Accurate Learner Data with Post-Registration UDF Editing in Canvas Catalog
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…
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Upcoming Portfolio GA Release: How to Opt Out of the Portfolio Tool Early
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…
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Introducing a View-Only Role for Instructors in the Parchment Digital Badges LTI
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…
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Canvas Catalog and Flywire: Unlocking Seamless Payments for Education
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…
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DAP CLI 2.1.0 — Smarter, Smoother, and a Little More Fun
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…
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Scheduled Maintenance for DAP Query API/CD2 is Happening Now
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…
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Enhanced Rubrics are Better than Ever!
Hey Canvas Community, If you’ve been following along with the evolution of Enhanced Rubrics, you know this feature has been quite a journey from its first release to now. We’ve listened, learned, and refined, and today we’re reintroducing Enhanced Rubrics as the foundation for a smarter and more flexible evaluation…
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Drive Early Engagement with Post-Enrollment Nudges in Canvas Catalog
Students enroll in your courses, but many never take the next step. They get busy, distracted, or forget entirely. That pause between enrollment and action is where engagement often breaks down. With Post-Enrollment Nudges, Canvas Catalog gives you a smarter way to keep learners moving forward from the very beginning. At…
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Improving the Student Experience: Key Findings from the Student Modules Early Adopter Program
We are happy to share the findings from our recent “Course Progression for Modules” Early Adopter Program (EAP). At Canvas, we believe that the best products are built collaboratively, and the feedback gathered from our community has been invaluable as we move toward releasing an improved Modules experience for students. A…
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Differentiation Tags: Your Key to Tailored Learning
Header image We are excited to announce that Differentiation Tags is now Generally Available! Over the past several months, Differentiation Tags has grown into a more powerful, flexible, and intuitive tool that is ready to be used at scale—thanks in large part to the collaboration between our Canvas team, Early Adopter…
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A Faster and More Reliable DAP Query API / CD2 API
At Instructure, we're constantly working to enhance the tools you rely on every day. As part of that commitment, we’re excited to announce a significant upgrade to the core infrastructure powering our DAP Query API / CD2. This upgrade will require a maintenance outage, read below for the detailed schedule per region.…