Instructure Community Weekly Highlights (may 5-11, 2026)

Heather Ahern

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 Spotlights

• Quick Canvas Wins: What's Your Go To Tip?
• Making the Most of InstCon26: Things Every First Timer Should Know
• Security Incident Update & FAQs

Community Content

Upcoming Instructure Live Events

• Finish Strong with EOY Best Practices - Tue May 12, 11 AM MT
• Canvas Klatch with Greg - Wed May 13, 11:30 AM MT
• From Data to Decisions: A Canvas Reporting Deep Dive - Wed May 13, 12:30 PM MT
• Canvas Klatch with Dianna- Tue, May 19, 2026, 5:00 PM MT
• Canvas Klatch with Greg- Thu, May 21, 2026, 10:00 AM MT

Product Content

Product Blog

The Product Blog newest posts:

• The Impact you've been waiting for is here
• Introducing Custom JavaScript & CSS for the Modern Storefront in Canvas Catalog

 Other Blogs

Canvas LMS Blog newest posts:

• May 7th Prompt Party Recap
• Our Phased Transition to Canvas New Quizzes (& Deprecation of Classic Quizzes)
• IgniteAI Study Tools | Feature Overview

 

Instructure Roadmap

Check out the Instructure Roadmap for upcoming updates.

 

Upcoming Enforcements, Deprecations, and Breaking Changes

Added

• Impact: 2026-05-07
  • End of Life: Custom Scripting

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

Feature Updates

Canvas 

Release Notes

 Incident Change Log for May 2026

Deploy Notes

Canvas Deploy Notes (2026-05-20)

 

Updated Notes

Canvas Release Notes (2026-05-16)

Elevate Standards Alignment 

Elevate Standards Alignment Release Notes (April 2026)

Impact 

Impact Release Notes (2026-05-07)

Intelligent Insights 

Intelligent Insights Release Notes (2026-05-16)

Intelligent Insights Deploy Notes (2026-April)

Heather Ahern

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