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Learnings on Studio Auto Captioning And What It Means For You
Auto-publishing captions I was fortunate enough to fly to California and meet some institutions in May. These in-person visits add so much depth to the conversation and they provide lots of great input to problems that we’ve been researching recently. For instance, video quizzing, and how teachers want to leverage them to…
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Instant Recognition: Real-Time Badge Awarding is Here!
Dear Canvas Credentials Community! We are thrilled to announce a significant upgrade to our Canvas and Canvas Credentials integration that will revolutionise your credentialing experience. With the completion of our latest phase, your badges can now be awarded, while the enrolments are synced in near real-time, a vast…
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Coming Soon! New Look and Navigation for LearnPlatform by Instructure
Exciting transformations are coming in June as LearnPlatform unveils a fresh look and feel for the product. While maintaining the core functionality, menu options, and features, the menu will now be situated at the top of the product instead of on the left side. We understand that these changes will impact users and want…
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New Features, Big Impact: Enhancing Common Workflows in Canvas LMS
In March, we formed a dedicated team to tackle some long-standing user pain points, focusing on those small yet persistent issues that have been sources of irritation. We also focused our time on enhancements that enrich the experience of our educators and learners around communication and collaboration. Since forming this…
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Sunsetting Portfolium Google Drive Upload Functionality
After careful consideration, we have decided to sunset the Google Drive upload functionality in Canvas Student ePortfolios (Portfolium product) projects and assignments. The functionality will be discontinued on June 10th. This decision is driven by several factors, primarily the feature's low utilization and the existence…
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Forthcoming Update to Canvas API Response Header Capitalization
Hello, community, In a forthcoming update, currently slated to be released as part of the June 19th, 2024 Canvas deployment, all HTTP responses from Canvas – for API users, browser users, and others – will transition to full lowercase response header names. We are making this change to comply with industry best practices.…
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Maximizing Success Through Collaborative Discovery
The Instructure Community is one of the vital representations of our values as a company. The openness and transparency of our users in sharing ideas and participating in collaboration opportunities are essential in bringing key updates and features to our products and services to life. On Wednesday, April 10, we held the…
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Discussion Redesign Updates
For the past many weeks and months, my team and I have been seeking customer feedback for our ongoing redesign work for Discussion and Announcements. We have been on numerous calls with customers, engaged with users in the Canvas Community, had a usability study shared with us from the University of Minnesota (more on that…
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Update on the Known Issue Related to Course Files in Item Banks
Update: 10/30/2024 Since our last update in late September, our engineering team has continued working diligently on the long-term solution for Image File issues identified in IA-100. Although we were hopeful for an October release, unforeseen technical challenges have pushed our anticipated release date back to November…
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Exporting New Quizzes as a Common Cartridge
Exporting New Quizzes Using Common Cartridge was released to Beta on May 10, 2024 (see release notes). We are looking to release to production environments on June 15, 2024. Workflow to export New Quizzes in a Common Cartridge package To export a Canvas Course, click on Export Course Content from the Settings in Course…
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Sub-account Item Bank Sharing and Outcomes Alignment
The new Item Banks Sub-Account feature allows users to view and share item banks relevant to their current sub-account. This functionality makes lookup more convenient, by limiting the item banks listed to the current subaccount. What happens to item banks when they are shared to sub-accounts? Item banks shared at the…
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Important: Security update within Catalog; action required!
UPDATE II. (June 27th, 2024) Based on the consultations with our Security Team we will keep supporting TLS 1.2 strong ciphers, but we advise to migrate to TLS 1.3 and let your users know about it so they can still access your sites. UPDATE I. (May 8th, 2024) This came out of a recent penetration test from our Security…
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Studio Navigation Update & Picture-in-Picture Support
The New Navigation Experience Unifying the product experience and user interfaces in Canvas has been ongoing for a while now and will slowly be adopted by all Instructure products. Studio is no exception, it is going to benefit a lot from this update in the long term and we are happy to share that it will receive the new…
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Driving Efficiency and Enabling Deeper Insights with AI in Instructure Products
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education is no longer a distant prospect – it's our present reality. At Instructure, we believe that this technology offers immense potential to revolutionize teaching and learning when it is implemented with thoughtful care and understanding. When used safely, generative AI has…
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New Quizzes End of Quarter Update for Q1 2024
For reference: Link to New Quizzes End of Quarter Update Q4 - 2023 New Quizzes News While the last quarter has allowed us to finish up the Item Analysis work including the CSV download, we’ve also been hard at work on two big features that don’t have a lot of flashy customer-facing changes, both of them bring value by…