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Is there any possibility to have students that are still pending in a class also marked as such under where they are set in groups? The work on me as a teacher to be going back and forth and wondering why my students are ending up alone in a group project is so much greater than if I could see who is pending and who is not…
In the Gradebook if you choose the default "Excused" status for a student record the colour of the cell changes and the word "Excused" appears in the cell but for all the other status's (eg. "Late" or "Missing") only the colour changes. I want to create a custom status called "Pending", with a unique colour, and have both…
At our institution, we have quite a few resource shells where faculty members need to be enrolled as students. However, we've uncovered that many of the faculty members have a higher-level admin view of these courses, meaning that they can see content outside of their assigned section, but that they also can't use regular…
I teach middle school, and I am looking for ideas for using Canvas to support students who need extra structure with assignments. I already try to break directions into smaller steps, but I would like to know what other features or routines teachers use to make expectations clearer and help students stay organized. Have…
I teach 8th-grade ELA and Georgia Studies, and I am looking for ways to make Canvas easier for middle school students to navigate. I especially want to make assignments and directions more manageable for students who need information broken into smaller steps. What are your best tips for organizing modules, assignments,…
Hello, Our faculty are getting ready to receive their spring course shells. In the past, we have instructed them to do "all content" course copies. This has resulted in faculty having hundreds and sometimes thousands of files that they're not using (old material, duplicates, unused content). We have TidyUP and have advised…
Hi, I have a lot of problems with students attaching files to comments on assignments (or in speedgrader?) in order to avoid deadlines and to get around the file type restrictions on the assignments themselves. It is very problematic, is not just a small handful of students. I can see that some classes are designed in a…
I'm working with a faculty member who is creating a writing quiz that asks students to respond to questions from 3 different banks (one pulling easy questions, one pulling hard/rewrite questions, and one pulling from an AI bank). There is some kind of glitch happening whereby students are getting duplicate questions from…
Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in the title of this document. New to deploy notes? Visit Understanding Release…
Hi all, I'm looking for some feedback on a possible change at our K-12 institution. Currently, we create separate classes for our year levels and subjects, for example, we have 6 Year 8 English classes, who are all associated to one Year 8 English Blueprint. We're tossing up whether it could be better for us to create one…
I apologize if this question has been asked a thousand times, but as I was reading and commenting on papers yesterday, the rubric I created and posted suddenly disappeared from view, and now they're no longer visible for any assignment in any of my courses. Does anyone know how this happened and how I can fix it? I've…
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Whether you’ve built a script to save time on grading or manage an integration your institution depends on, API access helps you make Canvas work for your needs. We want to keep supporting that flexibility while giving you better ways to manage and secure those connections. That’s why we’re building new options to replace…
We made a series of changes to the SpeedGrader student list icons, and this disrupted your grading. This blog post is meant to share what happened, and how we’re working to avoid it happening again. What happened Initially the student list conveyed submission status differently on screen than it did to assistive…
Knowing that a feature has been used isn't the same as knowing it was useful. Impact by Instructure now gives every Impact admin a clearer view of how educators and students use Canvas, Mastery, and Parchment Digital Badges. You'll also see whether your guides have been effective in supporting users and driving action and…
We’ve heard from districts loud and clear: you need a more reliable, scalable way to connect Mastery Connect with the systems your teams already use. That feedback has helped shape our release of our updated REST API, a modern, enterprise-grade experience designed to make district integrations more dependable and easier to…
As we look ahead to the upcoming holiday season, our team has been reviewing our Canvas Deploy and Release Schedule to ensure that deploys occur at the right times and with the appropriate support available throughout the process. We recognize it is important for our users to know the schedule in order to plan for and…
With the next benchmark testing window approaching in early to mid-December, we want to help your district feel prepared and confident heading into the next round of Mastery Predictive Assessments (MPAs). We’ve put together five best practices to help you prepare for a smooth testing experience, ensure timely reporting,…
Target Audience: Canvas Administrators and Institutional IT/Identity Administrators Action Required By: June 30, 2027 Canvas is making necessary updates to provide a more secure, scalable, and reliable experience for millions of learners globally. As part of this evolution, we are upgrading our underlying identity…
We're releasing table-level access control for the Canvas Data 2 (CD2) / DAP Query API to help institutions and partners have more precise control over which data tables can be accessed via the API for greater efficiency, simplicity and governance. From November 9, 2026, a CD2 API key carries an explicit list of the tables…
Purchase Orders (PO) checkout is now available in Canvas Catalog as of October 27. Institutions and organizations can now buy courses and programs through their existing procurement process. Catalog administrators can sell to buyers who can't pay by credit card, and buyers can request seats without paying by credit card at…
We just wrapped our October New & Next Showcase, with plenty to recap. If you couldn't join live, or want a second look at the details, this post is for you. Three New & Next Showcases in, and we have to say, we’re thrilled with what we've built. The first two centered on primary updates–first, IgniteAI feature…
Join us for the 2026 Illinois Canvas Connect event being held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This one-day immersive event will explore the latest innovations transforming the higher ed landscape in Illinois. Whether you're enhancing the digital classroom with Canvas or modernizing admissions and…
You already know students are using AI. The harder problem is that a finished draft no longer tells you how much of the thinking was theirs, and traditional detection tools get it wrong often enough to put you at risk with the wrong student. Changing the assignment solves more of this than changing a policy. When an…
The Instructure Community Developers Group is gathering to meet some fellow developers of Canvas customizations and external tool integrations. Discuss projects you're working on, success stories of past projects, and things you may be struggling with. Request to join the Instructure Community Developers Google Group to…
The Canvas Klatch is an online office hour open to all members of the Instructure Community. It started as an office hour for the courses I teach for the Online Network of Educators: Introduction to Teaching with Canvas Advanced Techniques with Canvas Online Teaching and Design Equity & Culturally Responsive Online…
Workflow Insights & Shared Resources from Last Month's User Group Join us for a brief summary of key workflow lessons learned and top resources shared during our October user group session ("Steal My Workflow"). Discover actionable insights and practical takeaways to help optimize your district's vetting processes. Session…
Ryan Lufkin and Melissa Loble work through questions sent in by EduCast3000 listeners and the wider educator community — from accessibility on a tight budget to how to run an ed tech pilot that gives you a usable answer. They cover how to build accessibility into a course from the start, how to set AI expectations that…
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We’re making New Quizzes more broadly available to instructors across Canvas. Starting in January, we’ll remove the on/off toggles for New Quizzes and migrate-on-course-copy, giving instructors easier access to New Quizzes and the flexibility to begin using it when they’re ready. Classic Quizzes will remain available, so…