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Strengthening Security in Canvas: Updates to User Access Token Management
You may have noticed that we are updating how we handle User Access Tokens. These changes have been made across the September and October deploys. I wanted to walk through all of these changes together and how they will improve institutions’ security, particularly in light of increasing AI usage. All User Generated Access…
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Seamlessly Manage Teacher Changes with Transferable Tracker Ownership in Mastery Connect
This blog post is part of the Mastery Connect Feature Spotlight series, where we highlight enhancements and updates designed to make your experience simpler and more powerful. — In any school district, change is a constant. Staffing adjustments and shifts in teaching assignments can happen at any time during the year. When…
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Recover More Enrollments with Abandoned Cart Nudges in Canvas Catalog
Every day, prospective learners browse your Catalog, add a course to their cart, and leave. In general e-commerce, research reports 60–75% cart abandonment. We apply that benchmark to education while noting that institutional rates vary. Each abandoned cart is a high-intent learner who nearly enrolled but exited before…
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Follow-Up: The PageView History API is Now in Beta!
Following our recent announcement about the changes to the Canvas Page Views feature, we are excited to share a major update specifically for our developer community and partners: The new PageView History API is now available in Beta! This new asynchronous API is designed to solve the need for accessing large volumes of…
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1:1 with Berkeley College - Key Takeaways from our Customer Discovery Session
We were thrilled to meet with the Berkeley College community for our first 1:1 Customer Discovery Session (CDS), engaging directly with administrators, educators, and students: three key Canvas user profiles. A huge thank-you to the wonderful team at Berkeley College for welcoming us to their Woodland Park campus and…
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Updated Canvas Deploy and Release Schedule
As we look ahead to the upcoming holiday season, our team has been reviewing our Canvas Deploy and Release Schedule to ensure that deploys occur at the right times and with the appropriate support available throughout the process. We recognize it is important for our users to know the schedule in order to plan for and…
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Intelligent Insights Permissions Now Separate from Admin Analytics
We're excited to announce an update to the Intelligent Insights permissions structure that makes it easier than ever to extend the value of Intelligent Insights to more users across the institution without compromising privacy and security. Now you can give the right people the right access to data, without overwhelming…
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Discovery Survey: Context Library in Ask Your Data
With Ask Your Data, we’re currently investigating an enhancement called a Context Library — a way for institutions to define their own terminology, policies, and knowledge that could guide how the AI interprets and responds to questions. We’d love your input to help us shape this idea. Please take our short survey to share…
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Parchment Digital Badges: New Beta Environments
As earlier we shared our announcement about the upcoming rebrand of Canvas Credentials to Parchment Award Digital Badges. That blogpost outlined the vision for unifying credentialing under the Parchment Award family and the production go-live date of October 31, 2025. Today, we’re excited to share the very first visible…
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Parchment Award Digital Badges: A New Era in Credentialing
Hello Instructure Community! In case you missed it, Canvas Credentials is moving to the Parchment Award family, and will be officially Parchment Digital Badges on October 31, 2025! While today this is only a rebrand, it's an important first step in streamlining our issuing offerings and services, as well as ultimately…
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Introducing Course-Restricted Messaging in Impact!
Introducing Course-Restricted Messaging in Impact We’re thrilled to launch one of the most-requested features from our Impact Ideas & Themes voting: Course-Restricted Messaging! This update gives admins a precise, intuitive way to target messages so the right people see the right information, exactly where it matters. Why…
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Shorter, Smarter, Stronger: Updates to the Mastery College Prep Assessment Match the New ACT
Staying in Step with the ACT for the Most Authentic Assessment Experience Preparing for college admissions has always been a high-stakes journey, and the ACT remains a key milestone for students aiming to showcase their academic readiness. That’s where the Mastery College Prep Assessments come in. Designed to effectively…
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Help Us Decide: Visual Options for the Canvas Assignment Page
Header image We’re continuing our work to improve the instructor assignment experience in Canvas, and we’d love your input. We’ve created a short Maze survey where you can: Explore different data visualization options we’re considering Share general feedback on the assignment experience Raise existing issues or pain points…
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Introducing Listing Lifecycle Management in Canvas Catalog
Say Goodbye to Cluttered Catalogs Until now, your only options were to hide or delete listings. Hiding left clutter in your admin view. Deleting removed content permanently posed a risk to data integrity. Listing Lifecycle Management solves this by allowing you to: Archive listings that are no longer in use Restore…
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Page Views Changes to Improve Accessibility and Data Management
We're rolling out some important updates to how Page Views are handled in Canvas, affecting both the user interface and our public APIs. These changes are designed to improve performance, accessibility, and data management, while also changing how partners access pageview data through the API What's Changing for Canvas…