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A Smoother Badge Creation Experience Is Coming to Canvas Credentials
Dear Canvas Credentials Community, We’re always looking for ways to make Canvas Credentials easier and more intuitive to use—especially for the everyday tasks you rely on most. One of those tasks is badge creation, and based on your feedback, we’re making a series of thoughtful updates to streamline that experience. These…
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Introducing the "non_collaborative" Column in CD2 Groups and Group Categories
We're excited to announce the upcoming release of a new column, non_collaborative, in the Canvas Data 2 (CD2) Query API's groups and group_categories tables. This column helps clearly distinguish between standard collaborative groups and the newly introduced "tags," providing enhanced clarity and control for institutions.…
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Elasticsearch 7.10 Upgrade for Commons and Planned Outage (June 16, 23, and July 7)
Commons search is getting an upgrade in June/July, making it faster and more reliable. In order to release this upgrade, there will be some planned downtime for Commons. Downtime by region listed below. Region code Region Outage Start Date and Time Outage Length prod-yul Canada June 16, 8 UTC Up to 1 hour prod-fra…
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Update to Course Pacing
Recently, we converted the Course Pacing feature flag to a course setting to simplify configuration. Now, turning on course pacing only requires going into Course Settings and can be enabled by admins and instructors. This change does not affect functionality and the Course Pacing feature remains disabled by default. If…
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Ask Your Data Introduces Scoped Data Access for Sub-Accounts
We’re excited to announce a major update to Ask Your Data, our conversational analytics tool within Intelligent Insights. Ask Your Data now automatically scopes insights to the sub‑account level, enabling sub-account admins within an institution to access and act on the data that matters most to them – without needing to…
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Security and UX are in Harmony in Canvas Mobile
We're excited to share updates to how Canvas handles mobile sessions! Following up on our previous discussions about balancing security and user convenience (see previous article), we've implemented key improvements to the mobile logout experience. These changes provide a more standardized and intuitive user experience…
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New Options for Storefront and Branding Inheritance in Canvas Catalog
For many Catalog Admins, enabling the storefront experience meant making a single decision at the root level, either stay on the Legacy Storefront or switch fully to the Modern Storefront. Once enabled, all subcatalogs would automatically adopt the Modern Storefront with the same branding and settings, without any option…
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Introducing Performance and Usability Upgrades for SpeedGrader
What we have been referring to as Modernized SpeedGrader now has a new name. Performance and usability upgrades for SpeedGrader: a title that better reflects what’s really changing under the hood. While the name has evolved, the functionality remains the same: enhancing the SpeedGrader experience to be faster, more…
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Introducing Differentiation Tags: Personalized Learning Just Got Easier
Header Image Differentiation Tags are a powerful new feature coming soon to Canvas! And we’re excited to announce that the Differentiation Tags feature is now available in Feature Preview in beta environments. We plan to make Differentiation Tags available as a Feature Preview in production environments as part of the 6/21…
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We're Listening: How Your Feedback Shapes Our Future
At Instructure, we believe the best way to improve is by listening to the people who use our tools every day—you. That’s why on June 21st US customers will begin seeing a quick question pop up while using Canvas or Mastery asking for your feedback. It’s part of something called the Product Net Promoter Score (NPS)—a…
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Discontinuing the Attachment button in Discussion and Announcement
Update: Due to raised concerns about limited user quota for uploaded files through RCE, we have decided to postpone the removal of the “attach” button in Discussions and Announcements until we have a solution suitable for the current use case of the attachment button. No new date is decided upon at this time. To streamline…
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Introducing Achievement Type Management in Canvas Credentials
Dear Canvas Credentials Community! We’re excited to introduce a new feature designed to give you more control, clarity, and confidence in the badge creation process. As part of our ongoing mission to simplify and strengthen digital credentialing, we’re launching Achievement Type Management—a smarter way to manage how…
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Updated: Advancing Canvas Credentials: The Path from LTI 1.1 to LTI 1.3
Dear Canvas Credentials Community, As we continue to enhance Canvas Credentials, we want to share a timely update. While we had originally planned to begin automatic upgrades from LTI 1.1 to LTI 1.3 earlier, we’ve heard your feedback—particularly about concerns with changes too close to the start of the academic semester.…
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Clearer Course Status Data Coming to Admin Analytics and Intelligent Insights
Admin Analytics and Course Readiness give Canvas admins greater visibility into Canvas course usage and the ability to take action on key insights related to course readiness. This update will give you even more focused data to work with. Filtering Out Courses With No Enrollments Starting with the April 23 Canvas…
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Canvas Catalog Now Supports Listing Duplication
For many Catalog Admins, creating similar listings meant starting from scratch, manually copying details and settings every single time. It was tedious, error-prone work that could lead to major headaches. Today, that changes. We’re thrilled to announce the launch of a long-awaited development: Copy Listing feature in…