Opportunities to gain early access and provide feedback on features currently in development across Canvas, Mastery, Parchment, and the Instructure platform.
If your institution is selected to participate, a member of our product team will update the status of this opportunity and provide next steps directly within the platform. Please note that because interest often exceeds capacity, we cannot guarantee participation for every institution. To help you make an informed decision, each opportunity clearly outlines the feature's current stage of development:
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Have you ever wanted to save your most used IgniteAI Agent prompts in a handy place, or have a place with recommended prompts tailored to your institution? If so, you're in the right place! Here's what the Saved Prompts feature unlocks: * Any Agent user can save prompts to their own private library * Institution admins can…
The problem we're solving We know that checking what students actually understood from a reading or lecture can be hard. We’ve developed a new way to check understanding in Canvas that aims to give you an earlier, clearer read on student thinking by letting students work through your learning goals in a short, ungraded AI…
Related roadmap opportunity https://community.instructure.com/en/categories/canvas-collaborative-roadmap?portalCard=uDejP084uxELh1viE8IrAX4ST0I The problem we’re solving We know that finding your way around Canvas can be frustrating, because the interface and navigation haven’t kept pace with how you work. Administrators,…
Related roadmap opportunity https://community.instructure.com/en/categories/canvas-collaborative-roadmap?portalCard=1XkM0RqLXR6H5UWGU5Tgsc3_i4s The problem we’re solving We know that managing your assessments in New Quizzes can feel slow and repetitive—requiring you to click into an assignment, scroll past details to hit…
The problem we're solving We know that for Ignite Ask Your Data (AYD) users, running recurring reports often means repeatedly typing the same complex queries and manually adjusting variables like Course IDs, Person IDs, terms, or date ranges. Workarounds—like copying SQL into external text editors, modifying it, and…
The problem we’re solving We know that checking on admin reports can be tedious because the Reports page runs on an older UI, you can’t tell if a report is still running or has stalled, and you only see the latest report. We’ve developed a new Reports page that shows real-time status (running, complete, or stalled) and…
1. Background & Problem Statement Ignite Ask Your Data (AYD) is a powerful conversational analytics tool for Canvas Next administrators. However, current chat interactions often result in dense "walls of text" that obscure critical information. Users frequently miss important context, such as data latency (e.g., data not…
Related roadmap opportunity https://portal.pendo.io/p/0b9115fd-768c-43a7-744c-a896e88d01ec/CQiN-6jO6qMv6yOBTquad_jziVQ?container=embed&portalCard=iqVGK6CyEcU94rijj1DwqZ2bpYo The problem we’re solving You know your catalog has listings starting at different times, but your learners can’t see that at a glance. Even sorted by…
Related roadmap opportunity IgniteAI Dynamic Item Translation The problem we’re solving We know that you have a need for multilingual support across Instructure’s items, in order to support English Language Learners. Therefore, we’ve developed a new way for you to translate items into other languages across assessments —…
Related roadmap opportunity A New Modules Page for Educators The problem we’re solving We know that adding items to a module can take more steps than it should, especially when you need to find an existing item and make sure it’s the right one. We’re redesigning how you add items to a module, and before we show any…