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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…
Header image We’re exploring ways to improve the Peer Review experience in Canvas and we need your input! Our current discovery work is focused on how Peer Reviews are assigned and what preferences users have around the process. Whether you’ve used Peer Review extensively or are just getting started, your insights can help…
As we approach InstructureCon 2025, I am reflecting upon the progress we’ve made since last year when we promised to modernize the Instructure platform to ensure that we can innovate faster and deliver the capabilities you need to keep pace with the changing landscape of education. The pace of change in the education…
On January 17, 2026, the Performance and Usability Upgrades for SpeedGrader will officially enter General Availability (GA). At that time, the feature option will default to ON for all institutions, while still allowing admins to opt out if they need more time to prepare. Full enforcement will follow in July 2026. These…
Hey Canvas 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…
On November 15, 2025, we’re excited to make Canvas Portfolio generally available (GA) to all Canvas LMS customers at no additional cost. Canvas Portfolio makes it easier for educators to assess learning and for students to showcase their growth, all in one place. A New Era of Portfolios Canvas Portfolio brings together the…
These days we hear a lot about personalizing the learning experience to help provide more agency for our learners. This speaks to me because I value the human connections I create in my role. I serve as one of the Technology Instructional Specialists for our small, rural district in Indiana. My role supports K12 teachers…
https://instructure.ai/nutritionfacts/?id=assessmentauthoringassistance Mastery Item Authoring Item Authoring for Assessments streamlines assessment creation by generating questions based on your course materials.
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…
What we have been referring to as Modernized SpeedGrader now has a new name. Performance and usability upgrades for SpeedGrader: a title that better reflects what’s really changing under the hood. While the name has evolved, the functionality remains the same: enhancing the SpeedGrader experience to be faster, more…
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