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Canvas on iOS 26: Experience "Liquid Glass"
Canvas on iOS 26: Experience "Liquid Glass" We’re excited to unveil a fresh look for the Canvas mobile apps on iOS 26! This update embraces Apple’s new Liquid Glass design system, bringing a more modern, fluid, and immersive feel to our Learner, Educator, and Parent experiences. What’s Changing? The core of this redesign…
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Canvas Portfolios: Now in the Palm of Your Hand!
Canvas Portfolios: Now in the Palm of Your Hand! Following our recent announcement of Canvas Portfolios in Canvas, we’re thrilled to bring this powerful tool directly to your mobile devices. Whether you’re a student showcasing your latest project or a teacher reviewing student growth, you can now access Portfolios…
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Scheduled Maintenance for Canvas Catalog
We will be performing scheduled maintenance on Canvas Catalog as part of a planned infrastructure upgrade. This effort is part of our ongoing commitment to improve platform performance, reliability, and long-term stability. What is happening Canvas Catalog will be temporarily unavailable during the timeframes listed below.…
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Instructure Community Weekly Highlights (January 27-February 2, 2026)
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…
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On-Demand Training Portal Quarterly News & Updates (Q4 - 2025)
Introduction With 2025 now complete, the On Demand Team is thrilled to announce the exciting updates and new offerings introduced in Quarter 4! Our Quarter 4 work included several product enhancements, a new IgniteAI course, and many other exciting developments that we are eager to highlight. About Our Services If you’re…
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Meet Canvas Career!
Meet Canvas Career: Skills-aligned learning that scales, proves impact, and earns trust Learning has never been more accessible. AI-assisted content and low-cost options are everywhere, which means even high-quality programs start to look interchangeable. Learners expect learning to be quick, easy to complete, relevant,…
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Join Our On-Demand Training Portal Implementation Webinar Series for Canvas Admins
We’re excited to introduce a new quarterly Implementation Webinar series designed to support Canvas Administrators during setup, rollout, and early adoption. These sessions are built to help you better understand admin functionality, available training resources, and how to get the most value from your On-Demand Training…
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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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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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How to Turn Off Comment Drafts Automatically Loading When Using Speedgrader?
I am using the new speedgrader UI and anytime I have left a comment on a students assignment it automatically starts generating another comment, so that when I try to move to the next student I get the warning that I didnt finish posting my comment and it will be save as a draft. Even when I click "Do not show again for…
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Enhanced Rubrics are Better than Ever!
Hey Instructure Community, If you’ve been following along with the evolution of Enhanced Rubrics, you know this feature has been quite a journey from its first release to now. We’ve listened, learned, and refined, and today we’re reintroducing Enhanced Rubrics as the foundation for a smarter and more flexible evaluation…
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Cannot see different classes of student submissions, all quizzes lumped together
* Hello to all and thanks for any help anyone can provide. As recently as the end of the 24/25 school year in June, when my students turned in an assignment I would use my Canvas iPhone app to look at student grades and record them into my gradebook on my laptop. I teach 5 sections of the same class. Previously I could go…
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Teacher/Admin cannot reply to comments in some Discussion Forums (Reply button missing)
Description: We are experiencing an inconsistent issue with Canvas Discussion Forums where a Teacher/Admin cannot reply to comments in some discussions, while in others (within the same course) everything works as expected. Context The issue occurs inside the same Course User roles affected: Teacher / Admin Problem:…
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New frontiers in computer engineering
What are the emerging trends in computer architecture, recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, and the evolution of operating systems? Furthermore, how do these technological advancements synergize to shape future computing paradigms?
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Thoughts on the new Accessibility Checker to be released in beta on Jan 30, 2026?
I guess I stopped getting release notes since the Instructure conversion to this new platform, but my Canvas Admin just forwarded the latest, which includes information about a new Accessibility Checker. While I appreciate the effort behind this, the timing is terrible as far as introducing this to our faculty, who are…
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Speed Grader ability to move from assignment to assignment for one student
Please add the ability to move from assignment to assignment for a single student in speed grader. It is EXTREMELY time consuming to grade multiple assignments for 1 student if work is submitted for that student. Thank you!
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Locking ALL content objects in blueprint
Is there a way for the general object checkboxes in the blueprint settings to allow us to lock ALL content in the blueprint? Instead of having to do this 1 by 1 for each piece of content on the blueprint page? I see there was a post on something similar in 2020 which hasn't had any movement since.…
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Canvas API to Enroll Multiple Students to Sections
I see Canvas has an API endpoint for bulk enrollments (Enrollments - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation). However, this is only used to enroll students to a COURSE and not for a SECTION. Is there a way to 'push' bulk enrollments to sections? There is an API endpoint to enroll a user into a section, but need to speed up the…
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Upcoming Portfolio GA Release: How to Opt Out of the Portfolio Tool Early
As we shared in October, the Portfolio tool will be generally available in Canvas this month! We understand that some institutions may want to opt out ahead of the GA release to avoid having the feature be on by default. To support this, we’ve prepared a self-serve option that allows your team to maintain full control over…