At our recent New & Next Showcase, members of our leadership team dug into the future of Canvas and unveiled new Canvas tiers, details on IgniteAI feature availability, plans to evolve the user experience, updates to our Impact product, and more.
As promised, below is a quick look at additional product updates we didn’t have time to cover during the Showcase. These updates, both recent (What’s new) and coming soon (What’s next) span across Canvas and the broader Instructure ecosystem, with a focus on improving efficiency, accessibility, and insight for educators, learners, and administrators.
Read on for more!
Canvas
What’s new
IgniteAI Grading Assistance for SpeedGrader [Canvas Plus and Canvas Next]
Educators can generate AI-assisted rubric scores and feedback drafts in SpeedGrader, helping streamline grading workflows while maintaining full control over final evaluations. Any Canvas educator can access this functionality during the IgniteAI free access period, which ends June 30 in the US and September 30 outside of the US.
GA: April 2026
Resources: Feature overview | Release notes
Customizable Dashboard for Learners
Learners can personalize their dashboards to highlight key tasks, insights, and course information, helping them focus on what matters most and take action more efficiently.
GA: April 2026
Resources: Feature overview
Automated Captioning & Rolling Transcripts
Educators and learners can access automatically generated captions and searchable transcripts for video content in Canvas, improving accessibility and making it easier to engage with and review material.
GA: April 2026
Resources: Feature overview
Enhanced Rubrics
Educators can create and manage rubrics using an improved interface with drag-and-drop functionality, making grading workflows more efficient and easier to customize.
GA: March 2026
Resources: Feature overview
Canvas Apps: Monitor Sub-Account Access
Admins can monitor LTI tool usage at the sub-account level without requiring root access, improving visibility and simplifying administrative oversight.
GA: February 2026
Resources: Release notes
New Quizzes Native Integration
Educators and learners can experience New Quizzes directly within Canvas without iframe limitations, improving performance, accessibility, and integration capabilities.
GA: March 2026 (disabled by default); July 2026 (enabled by default)
Resources: Feature overview | New Quizzes webinar series
New Quizzes Data in DAP/CD2
Admins and educators can access New Quizzes data via APIs for advanced reporting and analytics, enabling deeper insights into assessment performance.
GA: March 2026
Resources: Blog post | New Quizzes webinar series
Canvas Catalog Unified Checkout Experience
Learners and admins can complete purchases through an improved checkout flow with enhanced cart management and bulk purchasing options, simplifying transactions.
GA: March 2026
Resources: Release notes
Canvas Catalog Section-Based Listings
Admins can create multiple Catalog listings for a single Canvas course by mapping each listing to a unique Canvas section, eliminating duplicate courses and improving progress tracking.
GA: March 2026
Resources: Release notes | Blog post
Canvas Career Collections
Learning providers can add learners to curated Collections of content, helping them maximize the value of their content and enable micro-learning. Learners get to self-direct their learning and find what they need, when they need it—aided by AI-powered recommendations.
GA: May 2026
Resources: Feature overview | Early Adopter Program (open now)
Canvas Career Dashboard Builder with IgniteAI
Administrators of Canvas Career can surface relevant data by building custom dashboards from a library or using IgniteAI to generate new visualizations. This ensures the most important insights are always front and center.
GA: May 2026
Resources: Feature overview | Early Adopter Program (open now)
What’s next
IgniteAI Study Tools [Canvas Next]
Learners can generate personalized study materials such as flashcards and practice quizzes from course content, helping improve comprehension and retention and modeling safe AI usage for learners.
GA: May 2026
Resources: Collaborative Roadmap
Canvas Catalog Purchase Order Support
Admins can purchase courses using purchase orders, aligning Catalog workflows with institutional procurement processes.
GA: May 2026
Resources: Collaborative Roadmap
Peer Review Improvements
Educators can manage peer review assignments with improved distribution logic and clearer grading workflows, making the process more reliable and efficient.
GA: June 2026
Resources: Collaborative Roadmap
Redirect Tool Replacement
Admins can manage course navigation more effectively with an improved tool that replaces legacy redirect functionality and enhances reporting accuracy.
GA: June 2026
Resources: Collaborative Roadmap
Canvas Workflow Manager
Admins can explore, enable, and manage Canvas workflows in a centralized interface, with the ability to roll back changes as needed.
GA: June 2026 (EAP May)
Resources: Collaborative Roadmap
Customizable Dashboard for Educators
Educators can quickly complete key tasks with a customizable, role-aware dashboard that centralizes cross-course data and highlights urgent actions, saving time and reducing navigation.
GA: July 2026
Resources: Collaborative Roadmap
Mastery
What’s new
School Administrator Benchmark Progress and Delegation
School admins can track benchmarking progress at the school level and re-open available benchmarks for individual students, improving oversight and management of benchmark assessments within their schools.
GA: March 2026
Resources: Release notes
Mastery Accessibility Updates
Educators and learners can experience improved accessibility aligned with WCAG 21. AA standards along with UI upgrades across core workflows, creating a more inclusive and streamlined experience.
GA: April 2026
Resources: Feature overview
What’s next
Predictive Assessments In-App Reporting
Admins and educators can access deeper reporting for predictive assessments directly within the platform, enabling more actionable insights and data-driven decisions.
GA: Q2 2026
Resources: Collaborative Roadmap
Parchment
What’s new
Learner Dashboard Redesign
Learners can manage and share their credentials through a redesigned, mobile-friendly portal that centralizes access, improves usability, and allows learners to tell a more holistic story of their achievements.
GA: March 2026
Resources: Blog post
Document Management Enhancements
Admins can manage documents with improved retention controls and a recoverable trash system, enhancing organization and reducing risk of data loss.
GA: February 2026
Resources: Deleting Documents User Guide | Document Retention User Guide
Parchment Digital Badges: Group Reporting
Admins can analyze badge performance and group configurations using exportable reports, providing greater visibility into credential engagement and learner progression.
GA: February 2026
Resources: Release notes
Parchment Digital Badges: Canvas Assignments and Modules as Pathway Requirements
Institutions can now use live Canvas assignments and Modules as native Pathway requirements. Progress automatically syncs based on Canvas grading logic, reflecting actual performance at the assignment level without the need for manual badge inputs, while also allowing institutions greater structural alignment for programs that organize learning through modules rather than overall course completion.
GA: March and April 2026
Resources: Assignment release notes | Module release notes
What’s next
Parchment Digital Badges: Post Award Badge Analytics
Admins will be able to track how badges are viewed, shared, and engaged with after issuance, providing insight into credentialing program impact. Institutions can now go beyond what’s shared and measure ROI of their badging programs.
GA: April 2026
Resources: Collaborative Roadmap | Release Notes
Platform
What’s next
LearnPlatform accessibility and design updates
Educators and admins can navigate an updated interface aligned with accessibility standards, improving usability and overall experience.
GA: April 2026
Resources: Blog post | Collaborative Roadmap
Accessibility analytics [Intelligent Insights, Canvas Plus, Canvas Next]
Admins can proactively monitor course accessibility compliance across groups of courses at their institution. This report builds on the results of the Canvas Course Accessibility Checker to visualize accessibility health through actionable metrics, surfacing the most critical problem areas, highlighting high-risk courses and institutional progress, while also offering streamlined communication tools to guide institutions toward creating more inclusive learning experiences.
GA: May 2026 (EAP April)
Resources: Collaborative Roadmap
Regular and Substantive Interaction analytics [Intelligent Insights, Canvas Plus, Canvas Next]
Admins can automatically assess Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI) within courses to support financial aid compliance and improve instructional quality. Combining Canvas engagement data with AI analysis, this dashboard provides an automated risk assessment of your online course portfolio, helping institutions identify gaps in instructor engagement before they become financial aid audit liabilities. The RSI Report, available to Canvas Plus, Canvas Next and Intelligent Insights customers, transforms compliance from a reactive scramble into a proactive tool for improving the quality of education.
GA: June 2026 (EAP May)
Resources: Collaborative Roadmap
