Ideas, Customer Discovery Sessions, and Early Adopter groups are exciting, but our efforts go beyond that. Here’s how we’ve been further strengthening our partnership:

We heard you! Many of our customers expressed the need for a safe, dedicated space to explore new features, validate workflows, and ensure smooth adoption before updates go live. In response, we’ve launched Beta environments for Canvas Credentials—gi...

Ensure reliable and secure assessments by shuffling answer choices on Mastery assessments.

We’re excited to announce an update to the context_external_tools table in the Canvas namespace of the DAP Query API. On 31st of March in 2025, we will be adding a new column: unified_tool_id: A unique identifier for the external tool, helping Canvas...

With over 60 Mississippi districts using the Mastery View Predictive Assessments, Mississippi educators need confidence in their accuracy. A new study confirms that the Predictive Assessments are strongly aligned with the Mississippi Academic Assessm...

Ask Your Data now lets you share Pinboards with other users of the product, enabling Canvas admin teams to collaborate seamlessly, align on insights and work smarter together.

We’re excited to announce the release of DAP CLI 1.4.0, which significantly boosts efficiency and ease of use by introducing multi-table operations. This release addresses a major customer pain point by allowing operations on all or selected tables w...

Is Your Content Ready for the Dark Side? Why Teachers Need to Think About Dark Mode

Discover how incorporating validated items in the Predictive Assessments enhances accuracy, strengthens instructional insights, and ensures a balanced approach to assessment—without adding extra burden to students.

This quarter, we’ve made exciting enhancements to New Quizzes, from improved accessibility to expanded functionality. But the highlight? Our brand-new Student Analysis Report—a game-changer for data-driven teaching! This powerful tool gives instructo...

We’re launching another round of invitations to the closed beta group to gather feedback around automated captioning, rolling transcript, private student notes and a lot more—complete the form by March 5th!

A huge thank you to everyone who participated in our recent survey about Discussion Checkpoints! Your feedback is invaluable, and we're excited to share how it's shaping this feature. Based on your input, we're making some key improvements that will ...

What if you could align hundreds of learning objects with just a few clicks? Introducing Batch Copy Alignments – your secret weapon for efficient, large-scale alignment. Discover how this game-changing feature can revolutionize your workflow!

Help shape the future of Catalog! Vote for the new homepage design and make your voice count. Voting closes March 20—don’t miss out!

Introducing Course & Program Recommendations in Catalog

Canvas Credentials now integrates with Canvas's course export and import features—coming to production on February 17. Discover how this integration will transform the way you share and manage courses with embedded micro-credentials and pathways, all...

Tl;dr: Impact Admins now have granular adoption data on NQ and the ability to strategically place messaging inside of New Quizzes to support migration and deepen adoption!

We're launching the Mastery Item Review Panel, where select assessment and standards experts can provide direct feedback on draft Mastery View Predictive Assessment items.

Catalog is improving accessibility with updates to the legacy homepage. Now in beta, changes go live March 10. 

## Updated 02.06.2025 6:06PM CET   As part of our response to the incident in December, about slow-loading pages when accessing activity data in Canvas on the ‘User Profile’ page and ‘History’ tab and slower data access for our User API’s PageView ob...

Got ideas for custom registration messages in Canvas Catalog? Share your thoughts by Feb 28!

We’re excited to introduce a new process that gives administrators greater control over their organization’s library when requesting products not found in the LearnCommunity Library. The Custom Created Products (CCP) feature is now available, allowin...

We would like to gather your feedback on the Discussion Summary feature, which has been available as a feature preview since July 2024. This initial period has allowed some of you to experience and utilize the feature, and we've received valuable inp...

We’re excited to announce updates to a new table in the Canvas namespace that will be available in your CD2/DAP Query API dataset starting February 10th. These changes enrich the dataset with additional context and expand the range of supported use c...

This morning, we gathered our product team to discuss your feedback on the recent Speedgrader changes that apply to all Discussions in the Discussion Checkpoints feature. We heard you loud and clear – the update disrupted your grading workflow, espec...

Use Course Readiness and Students in Need of Attention to build a process for compliance with some Title IV financial aid regulations.

We’re working hard to release the modernized SpeedGrader as soon as possible, with a target of Q1 2025. While we are striving to meet this timeline, we are committed to delivering the release no later than early Q2 2025.

We're diving deep into the world of Peer Review within Canvas and we need your help!

We’re releasing DAP CLI version 1.3.1 today to address an issue that affected PostgreSQL users following our recent DAP Query API update. Yesterday, we introduced multiple new enum values across several tables in the DAP Query API, which unfortunatel...

Imagine a learning catalog that doesn’t just list courses but paints a clear picture of achievement and growth. With badges and pathways integrated directly into Canvas Catalog, learners can now visualize their journey before they even enroll. It's n...