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Community Migration Update: Preparing for Read-Only November 22nd
As we get closer to our read-only date on November 22, we want to provide an important round of updates so that you feel confident about what’s changing, what’s staying the same, and how you can prepare. Redirects & Link Behavior We know redirects can be a major source of concern, so we want to address that directly. We’ll…
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(NEW)Guide: How to Install the Enhanced Portfolio LTI in Canvas
Overview This document describes how Canvas admins can install the Enhanced Canvas Portfolio LTI tool into their Canvas instance. After installation, instructors/course designers and learners will be able to start using the new Portfolio tool. Important: Portfolio inherited keys are now available in production, beta, and…
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Differentiation Tags – Your Key to Tailored Learning
I just published a new post on the Product Blog highlighting Differentiation Tags, a feature designed to make it easier for instructors to personalize learning and manage accommodations at scale. A huge thank-you to everyone who participated in the early adopter, feature preview, and GA phases—your partnership has been…
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Help Us Decide: Visual Options for the Canvas Assignment Page
Header image We’re continuing our work to improve the instructor assignment experience in Canvas, and we’d love your input. We’ve created a short Maze survey where you can: Explore different data visualization options we’re considering Share general feedback on the assignment experience Raise existing issues or pain points…
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Resource Roundup from Instructure New & Next | October 2025 (K-12)
This post summarizes the product updates covered in our Instructure New & Next webinars held on October 15 for our K-12 customers in North America. The webinar covered both features that are available now and features that are coming very soon. This time we organized the updates more clearly by product, based on your…
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Three Pillars of Family Engagement in K-12: Strategies with Canvas LMS
The number one thing parents say drives student success? Relationships. According to our State of Teaching & Learning in K-12 Education study, 91% of parents indicated “a student’s relationship with teachers” as a top factor for their child’s success. Families want to know that when their kids are at school, they're with…
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Spokane Mixtapes: Replay the Best of InstructureCon25!
The wait is over! We’ve celebrated that all breakout sessions and select keynotes from InstructureCon 2025 are available in the Instructure Community. Now it’s time for the next step: mixtapes. Think of them as curated playlists of 5-7 sessions grouped around a theme or segment, designed to help you dive deeper into topics…
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How K12 Educators Can Foster Distraction-Free Classrooms
In today’s classrooms, our students are navigating a whirlwind of digital notifications, social pressures, and competing demands. That’s why distraction-free learning environments are so powerful! They give students the space to focus, connect, and build the habits that fuel long-term academic success. Creating these…
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Book Club: The InstructureCon25 Encore Series
The Instructure Community is not letting the InstructureCon magic fade! We’re keeping it alive, one book at a time. InstructureCon 2026 may be a long ways away, but the inspiration doesn’t have to wait. Many of our incredible 2025 keynote and super-session presenters are also published authors, and we’ve gathered their…
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Verifying email in Ways to Contact does not work
We have a teacher who is not receiving email messages in Canvas because she has not previously verified her email address in Ways to Contact. We have had her verify her email address several times, but no confirmations appear in her email, neither in her inbox, nor in her spam filter. We know that she has a working email,…
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New Quizzes Surveys in Canvas
Release Timing: December 13, 2025 Regional Availability: All Regions Customer Type: All customers Available with: Canvas Key Takeaway: Survey support in New Quizzes offers a seamless workflow for educators to collect both anonymous and non-anonymous student feedback, without the use of workarounds or varied account…
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Canvas Release Notes (2025-12-13)
Upcoming Canvas Changes 2025-01-17 User-Agent Header Enforcement Deprecation of limit Argument Deprecation of user.comment_bank_items_count Field 2026-02-21 Removal of X (formerly Twitter) App For more information, please see Instructure Enforcements, Deprecations, and Breaking Changes. Release notes outline upcoming…
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GPB Issue Ony One Student's grades are not being synced to our Q SIS
I am supporting a teacher who has GPB set up for her classes. She has 1 student whose grades do not sync to the Q SIS. How can I find the root of this issue?
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Make Canvas remove Incomplete flags?
My SIS is Infinite Campus and we can enter an I for an Incomplete assignment. This will flag the assignment with the Incomplete flag, and not harm the student grade. When a student does the work, and I grade in speed grader, the point value will go over, but the flag is not removed. Any ideas on how to make Canvas remove…
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Your Community, Refreshed
Your Community, Refreshed We’re thrilled to welcome you to a space built for you—your curiosity, your expertise, your connections, and your success. The Instructure Community has been thoughtfully refreshed to make it easier to learn, share, and engage. Whether you’re exploring what’s new or settling into familiar spaces,…
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Canvas Speedgrader Comments Section taking up whole screen
I'm trying to use the Canvas speedgrader, but when I open it up the comments section is taking up the whole page as shown in the screenshot below. It seems like the pdf is behind the grading screen. Before it used to be split up where half the page would be the pdf submission and the other half would be the section in the…
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Feature Request - More robust peer review support
As it stands, the Canvas peer review system has many shortcomings. I suggest some new developments to them to better support alternative and democratic teaching frameworks. The first issue is that there is no such thing as a "Peer review assignment." That is, you can assign a peer review, but you cannot make it an…
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api/v1/courses/sis_course_id:{id#}/sections - Not getting sections back
Hello, when I make this call to get sections for an 'unpublished' course, the response code received is 200 with a blank response. However, when I pull up the same course on the webapp, there is one section. This call does work for 'published' courses. How do I get the sections for an 'unpublished' course?
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O que é o ambiente beta do Canvas?
O ambiente beta do Canvas permite que administradores e instrutores explorem novos recursos antes de sua chegada à produção. O ambiente beta é separado do ambiente de testes do Canvas. Quando são adicionados os novos recursos ao beta? Novos recursos são adicionados ao beta a cada três semanas. Saiba mais sobre o cronograma…