Hi,We booked the red-eye back to New York Thursday the 27th, so that we could stay through the end of the conference, only to find out that the transportation vans last pickup is 5:45pm.Group vans can be booked through CME for $295, and hold 5-10 pas...

OPERATION: P.A.N.D.A (Professional Advancement of Non-Descript Agents)Recent intel has been revealed to allow for additional professional advancement during the upcoming gathering in Keystone, CO. According to the mission transmission: For Spies Like...

New blog post on blog.instructure:For Spies Like You—Mission: InstructureCon 0017 | blog.canvaslms.com 

Did I miss an opt-out of email sharing option when I registered for InstructureCon?  In the last 24 hours, I've probably gotten 10 emails from Instructure "partners" advertising their services and instructureCon session details.  While I appreciate p...

We were told that Catalog would be the perfect fit as an online registration system, but when we implemented it, we found that it lacked so much capability (including basic design needs), only about 30% of it was useful. We were told that no future i...

IntelPosterOperation Meet & Greet Interrogate as many unique assets as you can to earn your Clearance Level Beta badge or Level 10 CovertID status. Code-breaking may be involved. Special #CovertID swag for certain. Who: Instructional Designers What: ...

It seems like a number of people missed the detailed email that came out with extra information about the "InstCon Party Propaganda" so I'm going to go ahead and post the text of the email here.Tuesday, July 25 – Professional Development NightThis is...

[OPERATIVE] Agent 1-ADAM-12 [Operative Bio]ALIASES: "Adam," "Andy," "Andrew," (just about guy's name starting in "A" actually...)NAME: awilliams‌TITLE: Instructional Technology SpecialistORGANIZATION: Coconino Community College# TIMES AT INSTCON: 2 (...

This is your opportunity to ask the Instructure Technology and Engineering team a question!Leadership of the Instructure Technology and Engineering team will take the stage on Wednesday morning at InstCon17 to answer your questions. There is also a c...

[OPERATIVE]Here's what you need to know about this operative:NAME: chriscasTITLE: University Coordinator of Digital EducationSCHOOL/ORGANIZATION: University of Michigan-Dearborn# TIMES AT INSTCON: 4 (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)[FACT #1]This agent loves p...

Agents -In a recent briefing attention was drawn to a need for those agents that may be further to the right of the Type A scale. The upcoming mission does seem to be daunting, but with the help of the attached dossier files, even the most novice age...

OPERATIVE BIO:Here's what you need to know about this operative:NAME:   @awarmar ‌TITLE: Instructional Design ConsultantSCHOOL/ORGANIZATION: The University of Oklahoma# TIMES AT INSTCON: 1 (2016)  [PAST MISSIONS]Agent was one happy camper at Instruct...

IntelPosterOperation Meet & Greet Interrogate as many unique assets as you can to earn your Clearance Level Beta badge or Level 10 CovertID status. Code-breaking may be involved. Special #CovertID swag for certain. Who: Instructional Designers What: ...

For those attending Keystone in a couple of weeks, remember that high-altitude locations mean you need to drink a little more than usual or you may become dehydrated. In the spirit of the conference theme, this may be a handy reference. 

Hi, I've been a Canvas user for less than a year, so this will be my first InstructureCon. Who else is coming from a Christian K-12 school or university? I think it would be great to connect with each other and maybe even discuss topics that are uniq...

What is your current status with IMS Standards? How do you determine which standards to support and when?

I hear a lot about cyber attacks around the world. What does Instructure do to prevent unauthorized access? Have there been any breaches?

Canvas has a lot of student data and personally identifiable information (PII) about students and teachers. What measures to you take to protect PII?

Why do you release as frequently as you do?

What is your overall development process?

We rely on Canvas as a development platform. What is the future of your API's, Canvas Data and Live Events?

What is your historical uptime? How do you calculate your uptime numbers? Why do you calculate it that way?