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Hello Instructure Community! In case you missed it, Canvas Credentials is moving to the Parchment Award family, and will be officially Parchment Digital Badges on October 31, 2025! While today this is only a rebrand, it's an important first step in streamlining our issuing offerings and services, as well as ultimately…
In mid-August, members of the Instructure Product leadership team, including Kristie Lindell, Ruth Thornton, Farrah King, Walt Peters, and Shiren Vijiasingam, had the joy of spending a week connecting with our amazing community across Australia at an inspiring Customer Discovery Session (CDS) hosted at Flinders University…
We recently had the privilege of hosting a group of inspiring educators from across Europe and Africa for a Customer Discovery Session in our Budapest office. This day of collaboration and conversation gave us rich insights into the everyday experiences of teachers using Canvas, and revealed exciting opportunities for us…
We want to take a moment to express our gratitude for all the thoughtful feedback and insights you shared with us regarding our proposed updates to Ideas and Themes. In the Ideas process, we aim to foster collaboration and innovation, and ensure your voices are heard and actively incorporated into our strategies. Your…
I recently returned from France, where I used google translate to help me ask for the bill at the end of our meal. I asked the server for feedback on my French, and he informed me this was the literal translation, ‘pour la facture’. He recommended the more locally accepted phrase ‘l’addition s’il vous plait’. As you read…
Do these words cause sleepless nights because your current tool is not fit for purpose? Or maybe you love your lecture capture experience and would love to see Canvas adopt some of this functionality. Whatever the software and reasoning, we are here to listen. Come along and speak to our Studio product manager…
Any virtual or automated chat should exist to enhance the customer experience, not diminish it. In December of 2021 we shared our plans to implement a Virtual Assistant into the Canvas Tier 1 Support experience. While our “beta” period continues, we’d like to take an opportunity to share our vision for the evolution of the…
A few years ago, a colleague and I were brainstorming how we could help the product we owned be more innovative. At one point, she said that we were going to have to cut the lines to some of the bodankers in the product. The term “bodanker” was not one that I’d heard before. I was confident that it wasn’t a new software…
On this 55th World Teachers Day, I want to say thank you to all the teachers, instructors, faculty, educators who have, and are, making a difference in the world. Last year I spoke at InstructureCon Online about educators who shaped my own life. I will never be able to look back on the years of my formal education without…
When I think about education and what it means to me, one word irrevocably comes to my mind which is “Ikigai”—the Japanese word referring to something that gives a person a sense of purpose. I think that those who have the chance in life to do what they love, and know what they do also meets a greater purpose (such as not…
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