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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!
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 We Built It Effective messaging depends on…
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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
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 you’d like…
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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…
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Prompt Spotlight: Catching Unverified Observer Accounts at Term Start
Welcome to the next edition of the Prompt Spotlight Series, where we feature real prompts submitted by Ask Your Data users – prompts we think are worth exploring. These questions have caught our attention for a variety of reasons: they’re frequently asked, especially timely, or offer a fresh way to look at Canvas data. We…
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Coming September 29: Block Content Editor Early Adopter Program
The Block Content Editor is coming — shaped by the voices of educators every step of the way. This new editing experience, powered by AI, makes creating engaging, accessible course content simpler and more attainable than ever before. Listening, Learning, and Building Together Creating course content is one of the most…
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Shape the Future of Our Roadmap: Join the Co-Labs Pilot
The Co-Labs pilot has now been closed. As future opportunities to join the pilot or give feedback arise, you'll hear from us in the Product Blog. Looking forward to sharing more on Co-Labs, later this year! We're excited to introduce Co-Labs - Instructure's new interactive product roadmap experience. Co-Labs makes it…
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Listening, Learning, and Growing Together: Highlights from a Customer Discovery Session in Adelaide
In mid-August, members of the Instructure Product leadership team, including Kristie Lindell, Ruth Thornton, Farrah King, Walt Peters, and Shiren Vijiasingam, had the joy of spending a week connecting with our amazing community across Australia at an inspiring Customer Discovery Session (CDS) hosted at Flinders University…
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Mastery Connect Back to School - Actionable Insights Front-and-Center
This blog post is part of the Mastery Connect back to school series, where we highlight the feature enhancements and updates to prepare you to maximize your upcoming school year. Other blogs in this series include: Mastery Connect Back to School - Consistent Standards Alignment from Day 1, At Scale! Mastery Connect Back to…