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Introducing the Enhanced Canvas Apps Experience
What’s changing? Canvas is the original open LMS, purpose-built from the start with openness and flexibility at its core. The new Canvas Apps experience makes this even more of a reality. Canvas Apps streamlines the entire process of discovering, vetting, managing, and monitoring integrated apps. Why? On average, there are…
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LTI Usage Reporting Is Coming to Core Canvas – For Everyone
Starting June, LTI usage reporting will become a built-in part of the core Canvas experience. Previously available only through our premium products, Intelligent Insights and Impact, this reporting will now be accessible to all Canvas Admins – no additional purchase required. As part of the upcoming Canvas Apps experience,…
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Wrapping Up Discussions Redesign: Checkpoints Come to Group Work
Header Image What’s Changing? Earlier this year we launched Discussion Checkpoints, a feature designed to encourage structured participation by setting deadlines for each reply of a discussion. This enhancement aimed to promote more thoughtful, intentional engagement among students. Until now, Discussion Checkpoints have…
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Help Shape the Future of the Learning Mastery Gradebook
Header image We’re exploring ways to improve the Learning Mastery Gradebook (LMGB) in Canvas—and we’d love your input. Our goal is to simplify the experience for instructors and make the gradebook more accessible and informative. As part of this discovery, we’re looking at opportunities to add new functionality—starting…
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Help Shape the Future of Peer Review in Canvas
Header image We’re exploring ways to improve the Peer Review experience in Canvas and we need your input! Our current discovery work is focused on how Peer Reviews are assigned and what preferences users have around the process. Whether you’ve used Peer Review extensively or are just getting started, your insights can help…
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Advancing Accessibility in Canvas: On the Path to Full WCAG 2.1 AA Compliance
What’s Changing: A More Accessible Canvas Experience We’ve grouped our improvements into four major focus areas, each targeting common challenges and feedback from users and accessibility audits. 1. Clearer Visual Design Axe DevTools results: no contrast or semantic HTML issues found We’re refining the visual clarity of…
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A Smoother Badge Creation Experience Is Coming to Canvas Credentials
Dear Canvas Credentials Community, We’re always looking for ways to make Canvas Credentials easier and more intuitive to use—especially for the everyday tasks you rely on most. One of those tasks is badge creation, and based on your feedback, we’re making a series of thoughtful updates to streamline that experience. These…
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Introducing the "non_collaborative" Column in CD2 Groups and Group Categories
We're excited to announce the upcoming release of a new column, non_collaborative, in the Canvas Data 2 (CD2) Query API's groups and group_categories tables. This column helps clearly distinguish between standard collaborative groups and the newly introduced "tags," providing enhanced clarity and control for institutions.…
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Elasticsearch 7.10 Upgrade for Commons and Planned Outage (June 16, 23, and July 7)
Commons search is getting an upgrade in June/July, making it faster and more reliable. In order to release this upgrade, there will be some planned downtime for Commons. Downtime by region listed below. Region code Region Outage Start Date and Time Outage Length prod-yul Canada June 16, 8 UTC Up to 1 hour prod-fra…
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Update to Course Pacing
Recently, we converted the Course Pacing feature flag to a course setting to simplify configuration. Now, turning on course pacing only requires going into Course Settings and can be enabled by admins and instructors. This change does not affect functionality and the Course Pacing feature remains disabled by default. If…
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Ask Your Data Introduces Scoped Data Access for Sub-Accounts
We’re excited to announce a major update to Ask Your Data, our conversational analytics tool within Intelligent Insights. Ask Your Data now automatically scopes insights to the sub‑account level, enabling sub-account admins within an institution to access and act on the data that matters most to them – without needing to…
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Security and UX are in Harmony in Canvas Mobile
We're excited to share updates to how Canvas handles mobile sessions! Following up on our previous discussions about balancing security and user convenience (see previous article), we've implemented key improvements to the mobile logout experience. These changes provide a more standardized and intuitive user experience…
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New Options for Storefront and Branding Inheritance in Canvas Catalog
For many Catalog Admins, enabling the storefront experience meant making a single decision at the root level, either stay on the Legacy Storefront or switch fully to the Modern Storefront. Once enabled, all subcatalogs would automatically adopt the Modern Storefront with the same branding and settings, without any option…
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Introducing Performance and Usability Upgrades for SpeedGrader
What we have been referring to as Modernized SpeedGrader now has a new name. Performance and usability upgrades for SpeedGrader: a title that better reflects what’s really changing under the hood. While the name has evolved, the functionality remains the same: enhancing the SpeedGrader experience to be faster, more…
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Introducing Differentiation Tags: Personalized Learning Just Got Easier
Header Image Differentiation Tags are a powerful new feature coming soon to Canvas! And we’re excited to announce that the Differentiation Tags feature is now available in Feature Preview in beta environments. We plan to make Differentiation Tags available as a Feature Preview in production environments as part of the 6/21…