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We're the Tech Team at Richmond High School, about 30 students spread across a dozen different class periods. While we're rarely all in the same room at once, we run everything through a manually created Canvas course. Our advisor, Jeremy Hill (we just call him Hill), drops people in and out as schedules change. The first…
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 Career Collaborative Roadmap to explore upcoming work and share feedback. Your input…
My school will be getting a new teacher who’s never taught a course, so I just will share my assignments/quizzes with them. I know of the Send To feature, but if I do that for a quiz with item banks, will they have the control to edit the item banks on their end without editing my original item banks (meaning it gets…
Having an AI strategy doesn’t automatically mean people know what to do with it. In this CanvasCon ANZ 2026 conversation, Rachel Orston, Instructure’s Chief Customer Officer, and Professor Martin Bean CBE AM of The Bean Centre discuss what helps turn strategic intent into something educators and teams can actually use.…
I'm supporting faculty with accessibility at my community college/broad access college. I'm a social scientist and have used LaTeX, but I haven't pushed the boundaries of the Canvas editor at all. Microsoft has recently improved its equation editor, and it provides lists of what it does and doesn't support, for MathML,…
This is a pet peeve of mine, but it's also an easy UI toggle. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy how much effort goes into the Home page tab of my courses; however, for all of my courses, the most pertinent tab is the Modules tab. Right now, I click on my course, (load), the Home page tab opens and I click on Modules, (load), and…
It is common in Higher Education for academics to ask formative questions of students within the text of pages of their Canvas course. However, Canvas doesn't provide an inline tool where students can record an answer to these questions so I suspect many students just "gloss over" these important formative assessments.…
Here's a little Canvas challenge I used to give myself back when I was a Canvas admin. I’d open a course I'd never seen before, give myself 10 seconds, and see if I could figure out: Where am I? What am I supposed to do? Where do I go next? What information matters most? If the answer to those was "not really," I knew it…
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 Parchment Collaborative Roadmap to explore upcoming work and share feedback. Your input helps…
Business continuity is more than keeping a system online. It is about helping institutions continue teaching, supporting students, and making critical academic decisions even when normal access to technology is interrupted. Earlier this year in response to the security incident, we made the difficult choice to take Canvas…
Hello! We've seen an significant increase in load times for Studio video responses in discussion boards. It can take up to 10 minutes or more to fully load one page of the discussion. In previous courses that have this assignment, it wasn't an issue at the time, but reviewing the pages now, we see the same issue. I'm…
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 CanvasCon26 | Who’s doing…
I am just curiousas to why there is not a field to enter a description for an outcome at the account level? Or at least edit the rating when you attach/link an account level outcome to a rubric. When you create a new criterion for a rubric, you enter a decription for a rating, but for an account level outcome.
September’s session focused on turning Beginning of the Year (BOY) edtech usage data into confident, evidence-based budget and renewal decisions. This quick 30-minute meetup provided practical strategies to evaluate software adoption, collaborate across departments, and streamline compliance. Whether you missed the live…
Roll Call is clearly a very dated tool despite it being the built-in Attendance tracking option in Canvas. It has multiple visual bugs, and lacks basic features that are standard in other attendance-recording tools, including custom status sets, custom early warning messages, reporting for both students and faculty, and…
Students are already deciding where AI belongs in their education. Yet when institutions discuss what responsible use should look like, the people living with those decisions are still too often missing from the conversation. On Aug 24–25, CanvasCon ANZ 2026 brought Instructure customers from across Australia and New…
Long-term trends are hard to spot when your data window is short. Month-over-month comparisons, seasonal patterns, and historical baselines all need history to work. Until now, IgniteAI Ask Your Data hasn't had enough weblogs history to support those longer questions. We're extending weblogs retention in Ask Your Data to a…
Dear Parchment Digital Badges Community, Badge creators know what their credentials represent. But finding the right skill within a large taxonomy can still require trying several keywords, comparing similar results, and knowing the terminology used by the taxonomy. A badge may clearly describe a learner’s capabilities…
We use a pre- post- model to measure learning which requires student-question matching from two time periods. This requires exporting quiz data to CSV to do the analysis properly. (I can get into more detail if needed.) The New Quizzes Student Analysis CSV export has repeated blocks of ItemID then columns related to that…
Good morning - Does anyone know the process to rename a branding theme in Catalog? According to the How do I customize a catalog or subcatalog using the Storefront Theme Editor? guide - we should be able to utilize the pencil to update the name of the theme. We are being told that this is not supported, but the guide says…
Hello! A caution to my fellow Admins and support folks that Instructure updated their live-chat link (the one in the "(?) Help" menu, if you license their Support Chat service) fairly recently, but the old broken one is still online and appears as if it still functions. If someone hits the old link, after entering their…
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?
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…
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,…
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…
Free for Teacher is sunsetting, and if you're moving to Canvas Lite, exporting and importing your courses is one of the first hurdles. Drop in for this Ask a Coach session, hosted by our Community Coaches! Bring your questions about exporting your existing courses, importing them into Canvas Lite, and what does (and…