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Canvas Catalog 2025 Year in Review: A Year of Practical Progress
As 2025 comes to a close, the Canvas Catalog team at Instructure is proud to reflect on a year of product enhancements that support the unique challenges of managing and scaling non-degree offerings. Whether institutions are running continuing education, workforce training, certificate programs, or lifelong learning…
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To-Do List Improvements on Mobile
5 To-Do List Improvements That Make Studying Easier Managing workload on a phone shouldn’t require three apps and a mental spreadsheet. For millions of students, the Canvas mobile To-Do list is the first place they check to understand their day. In fact, it’s the most-visited screen in the entire app, opened almost 200…
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Streamlining assessment item creation with IgniteAI in Mastery Connect
Callout: 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 every classroom, teaching and assessment go hand in hand. Educators know that frequent, formative checks for understanding are essential…
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A Year of Progress: Reflecting on 2025 with Parchment Digital Badges
Dear Parchment Digital Badges Community! As 2025 comes to a close, we’re taking a moment to pause, reflect, and say something we don’t say often enough: thank you. Thank you for choosing us as your credentialing partner. Thank you for sharing your feedback, your struggles, and your vision. Also in the power of credentials…
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Personalize your insights with Ask Your Data’s Context Library
Every institution has its own language, policies, and ways of working — and now IgniteAI Ask Your Data in Intelligent Insights can speak yours. The new Context Library feature is designed to make AI-generated insights more accurate, relevant, and aligned with your institution’s unique environment. Earlier this year, we…
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Modernizing Our Files API for Enhanced Security and Performance
We're excited to announce important updates to our Files API, designed to bring you a more secure and efficient experience when working with your files. These changes reflect our commitment to following current best practices and providing you with the most robust tools possible. Previous Change: File UUIDs Transitioned…
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1:1 with Belmont University - Key Takeaways from our Customer Discovery Session
At the end of October, the Instructure team had the chance to spend a full day onsite with Belmont University in Nashville, TN for a Customer Discovery Session (CDS) focused on the future of course design and assessment. Belmont is an innovative institution that has deliberately evolved its digital learning approach over…
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Co-Creating the Future of Canvas with EMEA: Highlights from Our Oslo Customer Discovery Session
The day after CanvasCon EMEA wrapped up in Oslo, a group of learning technologists and administrators from across Europe, Middle East and Africa, joined us for the second time this year for a focused Customer Discovery Session (CDS). Where CanvasCon was about sharing what’s new, this day was about listening: understanding…
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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…