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Update on Recent Enhancements in Commons
Dear Community Members, First and foremost, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who participated in our survey! We're thrilled to announce that we received a total of 227 responses. We've finished processing all the feedback and are now in the prioritization stage. Stay tuned for some exciting updates coming your way soon!…
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Introducing Bulk Awarding of Multiple Badges via CSV Upload!
Greetings, Canvas Credentials Community! We're thrilled to announce a game-changing enhancement to our platform that's set to simplify your badge management tasks like never before. As you could see in our release note here, with our latest feature update, you can now bulk award multiple badges to various recipients…
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Exciting News: New Lucid Integration Available in Canvas LMS Beta!
In partnership with the Lucid team, we're thrilled to announce the launch of the Lucid integration in Canvas LMS, now available in beta. This integration provides Canvas customers worldwide with access to the Lucid Education Suite, which empowers teachers and students with visual collaboration solutions anytime and…
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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…