Instructure Community Weekly Highlights (July 22-July 28, 2025)

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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!

Community Content

Featured Content

• Leading through Chaos - Insights and Actions presented by the Academic Strategy Team & Friends
• Mass Experiential Learning: Engagement & social learning in an age of AI
• Dyslexia-friendly font: Offering more accessibility options to our users
• Fresh Look, Same Mission: Instructure's Updated Accessibility Toolkit 

K-12 Users

• Resource Roundup from Instructure New & Next | Q3 2025 (K12)

Business and Government

• Promoting Your Courses with Canvas Catalog

Upcoming Instructure Live Events

• Canvas Klatch- Tue, Jul 29, 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!
• Beyond the Mist: Stories, Insights, and Sightings from InstCon25- Thu, Aug 7, 2025 1:30 PM MDT
  • At InstructureCon, we learned about new approaches of AI and accessibility and learned how people from around the world work to support teaching and learning. Join us at this Instructure Live event to continue processing what you learned and share how the magic of the Pacific Northwest has begun to inform your practice.
• Mastery Connect NEW Portal Open House- Wed, Aug 13, 2025 02:00 PM MDT
  • Have you heard the exciting news? The Mastery Connect Online PD has a NEW Premium offering that includes the updated Mastery Connect Course AND live training webinars! Want to learn more about how this service can support leaders and teachers?

Product Content

Feature User Groups

Smart Search User Group

Next release: 2025-08-16; see the Smart Search: Release Change Log

Product Blog

The Product Blog newest posts:

• Ask Your Data Now Includes Weblogs
• New in Intelligent Insights: Students in Need of Attention at the Course Level 

 Other Blogs

Canvas LMS Blog newest posts:

• Canvas Apps: A smarter hub for discovering, managing, and monitoring LTI tools
• Differentiation Tags: Smarter Student Support
• Canvas Course Accessibility Checklist
  
  

Canvas Studio Blog newest posts:

• Studio Video Archive & Restore

Canvas Catalog Blog newest posts:

• Impact x Catalog Integration

Mastery Connect Blog newest posts:

• Quick Reassess: AI-powered follow-up assessments made simple
• Ensure Consistent Alignment from Day 1—At Scale
• Streamlining the move from Canvas Quizzes to Mastery Assessments
• Spanish Student and Family Experience: Making assessment more inclusive and accessible
• Mastery Actionable Insights: Putting student data where it matters most
• Powering all Stages of the Assessment Lifecycle

 

Instructure Roadmap

Check out the Instructure Roadmap for upcoming updates.

Feature Updates

Smart Search User Group

Next release: 2025-08-16; see the Smart Search: Release Change Log

Canvas

Release Notes

Canvas Release Notes (2025-08-16)

Catalog 

Catalog Release Notes (2025-07-22)