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Canvas Lite is here, and we know many of you are eager to dive in, set up your courses, and import your existing course export packages. As you prepare for the transition, here is a key detail to keep in mind: like Canvas Free-for-teacher, Canvas Lite has a 500MB storage limit. Course content can add up quickly, and full…
My university is moving to Canvas 100% in January 2027. What is the best way to market this news to the university community? Are there any marketing strategies available in Canvas?
A new school year means new students, new goals, and a new opportunity to turn assessment data into meaningful action.In our recent From Data to Action: A Guide to MPA Benchmark Reports and Best Practices webinar, the Mastery team walked through updates to Mastery Predictive Assessments (MPAs), new and enhanced reporting…
We're excited to announce new Collaborative Programs in Parchment Course Sharing! Now, groups of institutions can efficiently create shared academic programs that expand opportunity beyond what a single institution can provide alone. What's new Collaborative Programs lets groups of institutions, whether from a state…
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 Spotlights Accessibility Europe's…
I have no idea why Canvas discussion pages have become as slow as they have, but they now hair-tearing, infuriatingly, sluggish. I must sometimes wait nearly a full minute after hitting the "reply" button for it to register, and then wait that long again to be able to start typing. Then, I often have to wait that long…
As I understand it now, if I import an old Canvas course into a shell, all the Announcements come with it, which doesn't make much sense. So I could see three ways to improve it, from worse to better: Don't make importing Announcements the default. Make some sort of "Select All" or "Delete All" in Announcements Import the…
Canvas Best Practices from the Hoosier State If there’s one thing that’s been on my mind lately, it’s how incredibly lucky we are to have such a supportive, passionate community. Recently, our home state of Indiana was hit by some pretty severe weather—we saw power outages, flooded basements, destroyed home, damaged…
We are an asynchronous program, and believe we are starting to see the use of bots running new quizzes. We know that for $5 a month you can pay for a Bot to run on a Chromebook and do a pretty decent job running New Quizzes. There are multiple types of Bots, some that use screen readers, others that take snapshots. This…
I appreciated going to the gradebook and using the little menu at the top of the column to send a message to students who had not submitted. Why did that disappear? Is there a different way to do this now? And I appreciated going to the gradebook and being able to select "Speedgrader" at the top of each column. Where did…
I am having problems with Zoom Integration in Canvas Studio. Users are unable to secure authorization from Zoom. It has worked in the past, but has stopped working now. Regretfully, I do not know an actual date for when it stopped functioning. I have followed the instructions for setting up a Zoom application for sending…
Hello, I use Canvas' "temporary enrollment pairing" to grant temporary access to course observers who are performing an evaluation. We have policies around how many days they have access to the course. The only problem is that observers are receiving notifications from the course before their access window even begins.…
Hi, I'm reading that Amazon is blocking Meta's Muse from making purchases there. Could Instructure have Canvas instances block AI agents similarly - or, leave institutions with the ability to choose to block, etc. etc.? Limiting access tokens is great and all, but we're pretty sure all these web browsers with AI enabled,…
I had a question asked of me by the faculty. Is there a way within Canvas to assign students to their degree advisors? The purpose of the question was to allow the advisor to check the student's grades without giving the advisor access to grades from students they do not advise. Any ideas or options appreciated, thanks.
Big News: Exciting Changes and Upgrades Are Coming to the On-Demand Training Portal! 🚀 Here at the On-Demand team, we’ve been listening to your feedback. Along with looking at our survey data, we recently sat down with focus groups to hear directly from On-Demand Training Portal users. Your feedback, candid thoughts, and…
This playlist is for turning learning into something portable and provable. From badging pathways to workforce readiness to peer learning that proves real skill acquisition to a student-driven recognition program built from the ground up, these sessions show credentials becoming currency learners can actually carry…
How do you make most of your decisions? When I make most of my decisions, I usually think about how the situation will turn out before I decide what to do. I try to look at the possible outcomes and think about what would happen depending on the choice I make. I don't always know exactly what the result will be, but I try…
I have been asked to discover whether Canvas Catalog can accept eCheck payments. My thought is that since Catalog is configured to redirect to a payment form at our Payment Gateway, that this might be more a question of configuring an additional option into the Catalog and payment gateway settings. Has anyone done this?
How does one view/sort submissions of specific sections within a Google Assignment, if grading is done through Google vs Speedgrader?
The line between "skills" and "competencies" gets blurry fast, and "learning how to learn" means different things depending on who you ask. We're putting together an Educast 3000 podcast episode on all of it, and your questions will shape the conversation. Curious how to teach students to learn independently, what the…
One of the teachers has registered for Google Services in her Canvas account. However, she is unable to link the Google Assignment LTI as an external tool for assignment submissions. The error message is "account not linked" after clicking continue at this step: When I try to go into this teacher's course as an admin and…
Hello Canvas Community, Our institution is planning a migration from Banner to Workday Student and is beginning to evaluate the best approach to integrating Workday with Canvas. Our current integration is: Banner → Ethos API → ILP → Canvas We would like to learn from other institutions that have already migrated to Workday…
When in Speed Grader, under the "Grade by question" option, the Next Student and Previous Student buttons no longer work.
Hi everyone, I’m working through a Sherpath/Evolve LTI 1.3 setup in Canvas and would appreciate some guidance from others who have configured grade passback. Sherpath’s guidance is that the point values need to be adjusted in the Sherpath link opened through the LTI so that the grades pass back to Canvas with the intended…
A new episode of EduCast3000 drops September 22, and this one asks a pointed question about the credentials your institution is already issuing: what's actually inside them? Ryan Lufkin and Tracy Weeks, Sr. Education Policy & Strategy Director on the Learning Strategy team at Instructure, sit down with Sean Murphy,…
Whether you’re new to Canvas or looking to expand your skills, each Klatch session offers a welcoming space to share ideas, ask questions, and learn from one another. As a K12 Canvas Admin and Technology Instructional Specialist, I am passionate about helping teachers simplify their workflow, make the most of their time,…
The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference connects the best thinkers in higher education technology. This is THE event where professionals and technology providers from around the world gather to network, share ideas, grow professionally, and discover solutions to today’s challenges. It’s the largest gathering of your peers…people…
Universities in the UK & EMEA are entering a new era of lifelong learning, driven by initiatives like England's Lifelong Learning Entitlement. As institutions expanded into modular courses and micro-credentials through Canvas, they needed secure, verifiable ways to recognize achievement. This webinar explored how Parchment…
As educators face increasing demands, unlocking time for targeted instruction, student engagement, and proactive support is critical. Join our webinar to see firsthand how evolving your learning environment beyond core LMS functionality with Canvas tiers can help institutions streamline operations, reclaim valuable time,…