Release Timing: Generally Available and enforced beginning July 18, 2026
Regional Availability: Global
Customer Type: Higher Education and K12
Available with: Canvas Core (all Canvas users)
Key Takeaway: The enhanced Learning Mastery Gradebook gives instructors clearer, more actionable insight into learner outcome performance through improved visualizations, assignment-level transparency, and new tools to support intervention.
Institutions using Canvas Outcomes rely on mastery data to understand learner progress and support instructional decisions. The enhanced Learning Mastery Gradebook helps instructors move beyond simply viewing mastery scores to understanding what drives them and taking action based on those insights.
New Contributing Scores functionality provides visibility into the assignments and assessments influencing mastery calculations, helping instructors identify why learners are or are not achieving mastery. Enhanced drill-down views make it easier to investigate student performance, while new options to message students and create differentiation tags directly from outcome data help instructors provide targeted support more efficiently.
In addition, new accessible bar chart visualizations make mastery distribution easier to interpret and meet WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards. Together, these enhancements help instructors make more informed instructional decisions and support stronger outcomes-based grading practices.
Administrative Highlights:
- Enablement – these enhancements will be enforced on for all customers who have the Learning Mastery Gradebook feature flag enabled following general availability release on July 18th
- Default Status – Enforced
- Configuration Availability – Course level to access the Learning Mastery Gradebook. Once configured, these updates will be automatically available within the Learning Mastery Gradebook.
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