Impact Release Notes (2025-04-01)

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Release notes outline upcoming customer-impacting changes that are expected to be displayed in production environments. Please note that features considered for future development are not included in the notes.

Unless otherwise stated, all features in this release are available in the Production environment as of 2025-04-01.

Impact helps institutions improve technology adoption and evaluate the impact of educational technology, while helping faculty and students seamlessly navigate new platforms. Learn more about Impact by Instructure.

• New Features
• Global Search
• Global Search for Impact Admins
• Other Updates
• Accessibility
• Impact Dashboard
• Fixed Bugs

New Features

Global Search

Global Search for Impact Admins

Location to Enable Feature	Global Navigation
Permissions	Admin-facing
Affected Areas	Impact Dashboard
Related Blog(s)	Find What You Need, Faster: Introducing Global Search in Impact
Related Guide(s)	How do I use the Global Search in the Impact Dashboard?

Summary

In the global navigation, admins can search the Impact Dashboard using the Global Search.

Change Benefit

This feature allows admins to search pages, actions, messages, walkthroughs, articles, campaigns, campaign (and walkthrough) templates, contexts, and monitors in the Impact Dashboard.

Feature Workflow

Global Search Icon

 In the global navigation, click the Global Search icon.

Global Search Results

 Type a keyword in the Search field [1]. To open a result, click the result name [2].

Global Search Filters

 By default, the global search bar returns results for keywords in the entire Impact Dashboard. To limit the search to one or more specific areas of Impact, click the Filter icon [1]. Then select the filter checkboxes [2].

Other Updates

Accessibility

Impact Dashboard

Summary

The following is an accessibility update to the Impact Dashboard:

• When choosing the number of results to display per page, the screen reader and keyboard navigation focus remains on the results per page button. Additionally, the screen automatically scrolls down to show the button.

Fixed Bugs

• All sub-accounts in Canvas are available for selection in addition to historic sub-accounts. 
• When creating a new report in Insights, changing the Start date and End date updates the dataset in the report and visualization to match the selection on the report viewing screen.
• In Target User Groups, the Group Name Breadcrumb displays the appropriate breadcrumb.