Content release notes outline the new and updated Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) Impact Content that is displayed inside your Impact Dashboard. This includes OOTB Campaigns, Monitors, Monitor Categories/Reporting Templates, Contexts, and Support Center.
Unless otherwise stated, all content in this release is available in the Production environment on 2025-10-28.
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Campaigns
Canvas Release of October 18th, 2025
Launching the Canvas release campaign provides users with updates and new features in Canvas.
Walkthrough: Create and Manage Differentiation Tags as an Instructor
This walkthrough will help Instructors Create and manage Differentiation Tags. For this walkthrough to be visible to Instructors you should enable Differentiation Tags setting at the account or sub-account level.
Walkthrough: Create Captions for Media in Canvas Studio as an Instructor
This walkthrough guides instructors through the process of manually adding captions for their uploaded media and for media linked from YouTube and Vimeo.
Support
Differentiation Tags
The following Differentiation Tags articles are available:
- How do I create and manage Differentiation Tags as an instructor?
- How do I assign a module to individual sections, differentiation tags, or students?
- How do I use Differentiated Tags in the Gradebook as an instructor?
Monitors
LTI Studio
The following new monitor is created for LTI Studio:
- Edit captions page: Add line button
Monitor Categories/Reporting Templates
LTI Studio
Media Captions are added to the following categories:
LTI Adoption
> LTI Studio
>> Individual Studio Media
>>> Media captions
>>>> Add caption line
Support
Video Guides
All Impact video guides for Canvas Instructor, Student, Observers, All Users, and Canvas Studio from the Community List are updated.
The following new video articles are added:
- How do I view annotation feedback comments from my instructor directly in my assignment submission? (Video)
- How do I take a quiz? (Video)
- How do I take a quiz in New Quizzes? (Video)
- How do I add contact methods to receive Canvas notifications? (Video)
- How do I manage notifications for a single course? (Video)
