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Release notes outline upcoming customer-impacting changes that are expected to display in beta and/or production environments. Please note that features considered for future development are not included in the notes. Visit the Canvas Collaborative Roadmap to explore upcoming work and share feedback. Your input helps guide…
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…
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 From Dashboard to Learning…
With it being a new semester, something I have been working hard to prioritize is my organization and productivity to ensure I have a successful semester. Something new I came across at the start of this semester was the customizable Canvas dashboard! If your school has it enabled, all you need to do is click on the…
AI tools have gotten remarkably capable, and yet most of them still behave like an exceptional teaching assistant on their first morning - eager, motivated but missing context on the why of most decisions and processes. They don’t understand how the courses are structured, what your students are working on, or what your…
We have previously used the free-for-teacher version, and throughout the shut down we were never notified of any windows to export or regain our large amount of time and data that we spent on courses from our old account. We are fairly frustrated to find out today that this forum community exists, and that there were in…
While conventional classroom testing has long struggled to capture a student’s true mastery, the rise of generative AI has escalated the challenge. When students can easily use AI to generate answers on conventional tests and assignments, how do we evaluate their actual skills? The answer lies in authentic assessment.…
I beleive I paired myself with my son to observe his account but I am having no luck in seeing his account. Can you help me?
This is incredibly frustrating. I use a rubric with imported outcomes to grade my assignments. Each problem is mapped to an outcome, scored on a scale with 4 tiers (the upper 2 tiers granting mastery). For a few of my students—not all—grading a new assignment deletes their earned mastery on an earlier, unrelated…
I've searched the boards and found a few archived posts, so I hope someone has an update on this! We use multiple due dates on assignments to allow for accommodations and extenuating circumstances in our courses. However, even with a student being assigned a later due date, their grade is automatically penalized based on…
We have been experiencing an issue since Thursday 15 October 2026 on Canvas where users are reporting the following error when trying to access SCORM content: MissingKey: Missing Key-Pair-Id query parameter or cookie value This issue first affected our admin accounts which we were able to fix by allowing third-party…
A student signed in to my Canvas class two weeks ago. I could see his user name listed as a student who was signed in. Today, he tried to use the same user name but Canvas would not recognize. He had to develop a new user name and password to sign in. Now he is listed twice. I had this with a student signing in with three…
I am looking into agentic teaching assistants to alleviate some of the workload of my teachers as well as from myself. I discovered the Canvas MCP Server on Github through a colleague of mine. Integrated using Claude Code, it can deploy a number of features into your Canvas courses. This could be such a timesaver. I am…
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…
Hello Canvas Community! Does anyone utilize TouchNet as their payment system for Canvas Catalog courses? And if so, does anyone implement a Marketplace uStore? Other than adding tax into the course enrollment fee, does anyone have a working solution between Catalog and TouchNet Marketplace to collect tax for taxable online…
Tell us what to fix in the On-Demand Training Portal. If you've taken a course in the On-Demand Training Portal, we could use about 12 minutes of your time. We're rebuilding parts of the portal. We'd rather hear what didn't work than be told it was fine. We already know some of it. You've told us about links that go…
I have now had a few cases of students' responses in New Quizzes not being recorded. Normally, students get a connection error and can restart, but here they get new questions one at a time with no indication of a problem until they try to submit the exam and find that they can't submit it. Students are losing 20-90% of…
We would like to return essays to students with our comments first, and post the grade only after each student has read the comments and written a sentence or two back. For essays where my comments are all in the Google Doc, this works: I return the doc without a grade, and enter the grade later. The trouble comes when the…
We assign coursework by section, and teachers enter the transfer grades on each assignment from before the student’s enrollment date. However, those grades do not satisfy the modules’ “Submit the assignment” requirements. Students still have to go back to the beginning of the school year and submit blank documents and…
We have a teacher who, when trying to add discussions to a module, cannot see all of them. One of my theories is that there are too many discussions in the course, as there are over 400, and that the pop-up window can only display a limited number at a time. This is just a theory, though. This is a blueprint course, and we…
I have gone through the verification of identity three times in the past three week. I verify, take all the pictures, wait for an email and am notified that i am verified. I can stay in my class for a week until I get a message that I am not verified because of a blurred photo of either myself or my documentation and have…
A Discussion assignment needs to be able to have more than 2 due dates. A discussion is just that--a back and forth. To be an effective kind of assignment, Instructure needs to modify them so they can have 3 or more due dates. Students also need to be notified when someone posts within their group. Currently, students turn…
Hello, I recently signed up for Canvas Lite teacher account and was prompted for verification. I'm planning on using Canvas Lite to host my Drama Club that I am hosting for my community. I just turned 18 so I'm in the process of getting my license except for that I've lost my Birth Cert so I'm having issues getting that at…
With the busy start-of-year rush of new product requests winding down, October is the sweet spot to step back, reflect, and refine your district workflows. It’s also the ideal time to start building date-triggered workflows to prepare for budget season, helping you make data-driven decisions on which products to renew,…
Join us for the next installment of our New & Next Showcase, where we'll give an update on our work to create the future of Canvas. You’ll see the progress we’ve made redesigning top Canvas workflows, and the new, more modern interface surrounding them. We'll also share how our Parchment teams are evolving to support…
As lifelong learning, modular study and micro-credentials continue to grow, universities are increasingly being asked to demonstrate the real-world value of learning. Yet many of the skills students develop—such as teamwork, communication and critical thinking—remain difficult to articulate and verify. Across the UK and…
We want to ensure you don't miss the next Prompt Party — a live, interactive session designed to help you explore IgniteAI Agent in a way that actually clicks. This isn't a webinar. This is a working session. What to expect In this event, you’ll see real prompts in action from educators who are already putting IgniteAI…
Where product news meets customer know-how. Join fellow Parchment customers and product experts to hear what’s working at institutions like yours, explore the latest innovations, and discover practical ideas you can put to work. More to learn. More to share. More to discover. Think you know everything that’s possible with…
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 CVC@ONE: Introduction to Teaching with Canvas Advanced Techniques with Canvas Online Teaching and Design Equity & Culturally Responsive Online Teaching Humanizing Online…