Instructure Community Weekly Highlights (May 27 - June 2, 2025)

Katie Metz

Welcome to the Instructure Community Weekly Highlights blog! Every Monday, we will update you with all the goings-on in the Instructure world from the previous week: community updates, product updates, new blogs to read, and everything else you'll need to know will be here!

 

Table of Contents

• Community Content
• Featured Content
• Newsletters
• Upcoming Instructure Live Events
• Product Content
• Feature User Groups
• Differentiation Tags User Group
• Product Blog
• Instructure Roadmap
• Feature Updates
• Badges/Credentials
• Impact
• Mastery Connect
• Elevate Data Quality
• Elevate Standards Alignment
• Intelligent Insights

Community Content

Featured Content

• Episode 27: EduCast 3000 Goes to Washington
• Empowering Educators
• Elevate Teaching and Learning with the Canvas Certified Educator Program 
• Teaching with AI: Your Input Matters
• New Portal Course Alert: Canvas Training Tailored for BizGov Admins
• AI use in K12 - A List of Posts
• One Size Fits Each - Is Vibe Coding the digital technology Nirvana (for educators)?

Newsletters

• Your May Briefing: What’s New in APAC EdTech
• What’s New & Next in NORAM K12 – May Highlights!
• What's New & Next in Higher Education EdTech? Your May Community Update!
• May 2025 Newsletter
• March 2025 Newsletter
• January 2025 Newsletter

Upcoming Instructure Live Events

• Canvas Klatch-Tue, Jun 3, 2025 11:00 AM MDT
• The Canvas Klatch started as a collaborative online office hour for the Online Network of Educators, but all Community Members are welcome!
• Digital Declutter: Canvas Edition- Wed, Jun 4, 2025 11:00 AM MDT
• Join to learn practical tips to review materials, clean up content, and streamline your course layout. Set yourself up for a smoother, more organized start next school year with strategies that save time and reduce digital clutter. 
• Canvas Klatch-Tue, Jun 10, 2025 2:00 PM MDT
• The Canvas Klatch started as a collaborative online office hour for the Online Network of Educators, but all Community Members are welcome!
• 5 Ways to Power Standards-Based Grading in the Upcoming School Year-Wed, Jun 11, 2025 11:00 AM MDT
• Join us for a quick, 30-minute session designed to help district and school leaders, instructional coaches, and educators discover how Mastery Connect can support a strong start to the school year. We’ll explore five essential ways Mastery Connect is evolving to support assessment-driven instruction and better learning outcomes.
• InstructureCon25- Tue, Jul 22, 2025 05:00 PM MDT
• Join us this summer for a surreal edtech experience in the Pacific Northwest, where we’ll aim our tractorbeam on the evolving needs of educators and learners. You’ll see a new approach to AI, accessibility enhancements, a roadmap connecting the dots of education—and maybe even a loose Bigfoot or two. Don’t miss it.

 

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Product Content

Feature User Groups

Differentiation Tags User Group

• Let’s Talk About Deleting Differentiation Tags

 

Product Blog

The Product Blog newest posts:

• Ask Your Data Introduces Scoped Data Access for Sub-Accounts
• Security and UX are in Harmony in Canvas Mobile

 Other Blogs

Canvas LMS Blog newest posts:

• Elevate Teaching and Learning with the Canvas Certified Educator Program

 

Instructure Roadmap

Check out the Instructure Roadmap for upcoming updates.

 

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Feature Updates

Badges/Credentials

Canvas Credentials Release Notes (2025-06-02)

 

Impact 

Impact Release Notes (2025-05-27)

 

Mastery Connect 

Mastery Connect Release Notes (2025-05-30)

 

Elevate Data Quality 

Elevate Data Quality Release Notes (2025-05-26)

 

Elevate Standards Alignment 

Elevate Standards Alignment Release Notes (May 2025)

 

Intelligent Insights 

Intelligent Insights Release Notes (2025-06-21)

Intelligent Insights Deploy Notes (2025–May)

 

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