Instructure Community Weekly Highlights (December 16-22, 2025)

Heather Ahern

Feel free to comment and discuss this week's Community Highlights below. Please note that the authors and Community moderators will not be directly monitoring or responding to individual comments.

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

Upcoming Instructure Live Events

• Book Club: Toolkit for Turbulence - Reading Kickoff - Fri, Jan 2, 2026, 08:00 AM MST
  • Join us for the InstructureCon25 Encore Series—a book club for the Instructure Community that brings the voices of featured speakers into your everyday learning. One book at a time, we’ll read, reflect, and keep the InstructureCon magic going until we’re together again in Louisville.
• Canvas Klatch with Greg - Wed, Jan 7, 2026, 11:00 AM MST
  • Whether you’re new to Canvas or looking to expand your skills, each Klatch session offers a welcoming space to share ideas, ask questions, and learn from one another.

Product Content

Product Blog

The Product Blog newest posts:

• Streamlining Assessment Item Creation with IgniteAI in Mastery Connect
• Personalize Your Insights with Ask Your Data’s Context Library

 Other Blogs

Canvas LMS Blog newest posts:

• IgniteAI Question Authoring in Quizzes
• Improving Canvas Infrastructure with a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
• New Quizzes Surveys in Canvas

Elevate Standards Alignment Blog newest posts:

• Introducing Smart Importer: A Faster, Simpler Way to Bring Your Standards Alignments into ESA

Mastery Connect Blog newest posts:

• More Data, Faster: New Automated Exports for Mastery Predictive Assessments

LearnPlatform Blog newest posts:

• Steal My Workflow: Unlocking EdTech Efficiency in K-12 Districts (December User Group)

Instructure Roadmap

Check out the Instructure Roadmap for upcoming updates.

 

Upcoming Canvas Change

• Addition
  • 2026-03-25 Removal of Unauthenticated File Access

For more information, see the Instructure Enforcements, Deprecations, and Breaking Changes page

Feature Updates

Canvas

Change Log

2026-02-21 See Canvas API and CLI Changes

Release Notes

Canvas Release Notes (2026-01-17)

 Deploy Notes

Canvas Deploy Notes (2026-01-14)

Parchment Award Digital Badges

Parchment Award Digital Badges Release Notes (2026-01-05) 

Catalog 

Catalog Release Notes (2025-12-09)

Impact 

Impact Content Release Notes (2025-12-16) 

Mastery Connect 

Mastery Connect Release Notes (2025-12-19) 

TatianaFlorido

Thanks for sharing this week’s highlights! The upcoming live events look especially helpful—excited to check out the Book Club kickoff and the Canvas Klatch sessions. Appreciate having everything organized in one place to stay up to date with the Instructure community.