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Key Takeaways from the R1 Customer Discovery Session in Salt Lake City
Last week, we held a Customer Discovery Session (CDS) in Salt Lake City, bringing together valuable feedback from various R1 institutions. The event brought together a diverse group of attendees and covered a range of topics, aiming to gather feedback on their Canvas LMS experiences. This blog post provides a summary of…
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New in Canvas Catalog: Course Recommendations Based on Real Enrollment Trends
Building on Our First Recommendation Feature At Canvas Catalog, we are continually improving how learners discover relevant courses. Earlier this year, we introduced a recommendation feature that helped surface suggested courses on the Homepage. This allowed institutions to increase course visibility and guide learners…
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Lakeland Customer Discovery Session: Charting a Course for the Future of Canvas LMS
At Instructure, we are dedicated to providing our customers with an unparalleled learning experience. We see our customers as advisors and co-creators of our best-in-class education platform. As part of our commitment to integrating customer insights, we are holding over 15 Customer Discovery Sessions in 2025. These…
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Shaping the Future of Career Readiness: Insights from our Business, Government and Continued Educati
Career readiness and skill development are top priorities for business and government, as well as any institution promoting continuing education for their learners. They are continuously seeking innovative ways to better prepare learners for evolving workforce demands. With this in mind, we recently had the pleasure of…
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Turning Your Feedback into Better Prioritization and Release Processes: Our Path Forward
Ideas, Customer Discovery Sessions, and Early Adopter groups are exciting, but our efforts go beyond that. Here’s how we’ve been further strengthening our partnership: Steps We’ve Taken Attention to Quality and Change Management: You asked for higher quality in our releases, and we’re responding. We’ve refined our…
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Introducing Our New Beta Environments for Canvas Credentials – Test, Innovate, and Shape the Future!
Dear Canvas Credentials Community! We heard you! Many of our customers expressed the need for a safe, dedicated space to explore new features, validate workflows, and ensure smooth adoption before updates go live. In response, we’ve launched Beta environments for Canvas Credentials—giving you early access to upcoming…
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Ensure reliable and secure assessments by shuffling answer choices on Mastery assessments
Enhance the integrity of your assessments with the option to shuffle answer options for any item based assessment in Mastery Connect. We’re thrilled to deliver this highly requested feature, designed to increase your confidence in the accuracy of students’ test results. With this feature, both educators and administrators…
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New Column in CD2/DAP Query API: unified_tool_id in context_external_tools Table
We’re excited to announce an update to the context_external_tools table in the Canvas namespace of the DAP Query API. On 31st of March in 2025, we will be adding a new column: unified_tool_id: A unique identifier for the external tool, helping Canvas institutions better track and analyze LTI tools across their instance.…
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Mastery View Predictive Assessment Mississippi Validity Report (2023-24)
A new validity study conducted by the Instructure Research team confirms that the Predictive Assessments are a strong predictor of scores on the Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP) for math, ELA, and science. The findings demonstrate high correlations between the Predictive Assessments and MAAP results,…
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Pinboard Sharing is Here! Share Insights with Ask Your Data
We’re excited to introduce a highly requested feature in Ask Your Data of Intelligent Insights: the ability to share pinboards! As part of our continuous efforts to extend the value of Intelligent Insights, we’re delivering impactful features that will enhance collaboration and productivity. With the March release, Ask…
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Multi-Table Support for Canvas Data will Streamline your Efforts with DAP CLI 1.4.0
We’re excited to announce the release of DAP CLI 1.4.0, which significantly boosts efficiency and ease of use by introducing multi-table operations. This release addresses a major customer pain point by allowing operations on all or selected tables within a namespace in a single command, saving valuable time and reducing…
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Mastering Dark Mode Design
As educators, we meticulously craft our learning materials, pouring time and effort into creating engaging and informative content for our students. But have you ever stopped to consider how your students are actually viewing that content? In today's digital world, a growing number of students are opting for dark mode on…
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Enhancing Accuracy and Instructional Value with the Mastery View Predictive Assessments
At Instructure, we are committed to supporting a balanced assessment system—one that not only predicts student performance on state tests with precision but also serves as a valuable instructional tool for educators. To achieve this, we have evolved the Mastery View Predictive Assessments to incorporate a unique approach…
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Quarter 1 Update and Unlocking the Power of the New Student Analysis Report in New Quizzes
Recent New Quizzes Enhancements and Upcoming Developments This quarter has been marked by significant enhancements to New Quizzes, focused on improving accessibility, functionality, and data insights. We've recently released Question Bank Migration support on Course Copy, improved Hot Spot functionality with keyboard…
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Extended Beta Opportunity for the New Canvas Media Player
Update (March 5th) - The new player will be deployed and enforced in Beta environments on March 19th, with a production rollout scheduled for April 19th. Key updates include a redesigned media player, enhanced accessibility, and overall usability improvements. No new functionalities requiring additional learning will be…