Canvas: New and Renewed Features Timeline

Course Backup Reminders

New: When enabled, instructors can see Dashboard reminders when course content and grades have not been exported recently, with options to download backups or dismiss the reminder temporarily.

Course Navigation: LTI Visibility Indicator

Improved: LTI tools configured with admin-only course-navigation visibility display a crossed-out eye icon so instructors and admins can see that the tool is hidden from students.

New Quizzes: Matching Questions in Surveys

New: New Quizzes will support Matching questions in graded and ungraded surveys.

Reports: API Scope Usage

New: Admins can run a report showing which API scopes an active key accessed during a selected time period, helping identify over-permissioned or unexpectedly used keys.

New Quizzes Migration Required

Improved : Step 4 of 4: Disable New Quiz importing and migration checkboxes, defaulting them to enabled.

Admin Authentication: MFA Requirement

New: Canvas requires multi-factor authentication for admins who sign in with Canvas email/password credentials. Institutions using third-party SSO continue to manage MFA through their identity provider.

Notebook for Learners

New: Students can highlight course-page content, mark material as Important or Unclear, add notes, and manage those notes from a Notebook page in course navigation.

Custom Navigation Links

New: Admins can add links to account, course, and user navigation, and instructors can add links to course navigation. Course-copy references are maintained for supported links.

Customizable Dashboard for Learners

Improved: The customizable student Dashboard is enabled by default and lets students switch between dashboard experiences, organize widgets, review coursework, and see recent grades and feedback.

Academic Integrity Pledge

New: Institutions can require students to acknowledge an academic integrity pledge before submitting assignments, using default or institution-specific pledge text.

Admin Tools: Login Activity Improvements

Improved: Login/Logout Activity records the actual authentication method for new events and allows admins to search activity across a time range for multiple users.

LTI Reports: Version Information

Improved: The LTI Report CSV includes the LTI version for each tool, making it easier for admins to identify and review installed integrations.

Canvas Portfolio: Assignment Evidence and Sharing

Improved: Portfolio users can import multiple Canvas assignments as requirements, preserve submission snapshots, add assignment submissions to projects, allow comments on shared evidence, and embed supported external content.

Captions

New : Captions for all Canvas media can be automatically generated and published, making it easy for educators to provide accessible content for learners in Canvas.

Outcome Results

New : Enables instructors to view outcome results from individual assignments and better understand how scores contribute to overall mastery.

STEM : Item Types

New : Adds new item types to improve support for STEM courses.

SpeedGrader : IgniteAI

Improved : Provides AI-generated grading suggestions in SpeedGrader, with score justifications included.

New Quizzes : Item Banks

Improved : Enables programmatic management of quiz items in Canvas Item Banks, fostering content reusability and large-scale authoring.

Assignments : Peer Review functional changes : Assigning

Improved : Enables instructors to automatically assign peer reviews based on available submissions, reducing manual setup.

Assignments : Peer Review functional changes : Points and Date Settings

Improved : Allows instructors to set points and a separate due date for peer reviews, making expectations and deadlines clearer for students.

Learning Mastery Gradebook: Chart layout update

Improved : Updates the Learning Mastery Gradebook chart so instructors can more clearly and accessibly understand student progress toward outcome mastery.

Learning Mastery Gradebook: Layout improvement for large courses

Improved : Instructors can quickly and consistently access LMGB, even in courses with many students and assignments.

Disable New Quizzes

Improved : Step 3 of 4: Use New Quizzes as the default quizzing engine when creating a quiz. Removes the ability to create classic quizzes.

New Quizzes: Multiple-Answer Feedback

Improved: Instructors can provide feedback for each answer choice in multiple-answer questions, giving students more targeted feedback after a quiz.

New Quizzes: Partial Credit for Categorization

Improved: Categorization questions can award automatic partial credit based on individual correct decisions rather than all-or-nothing scoring.

New Quizzes: Default Font Setting

New: Instructors can set a default font and font size that applies across Rich Content Editors within a New Quiz.

SpeedGrader: Current Student Indicator

Improved: The student drop-down menu identifies the student currently being viewed, making navigation between submissions clearer.

New Quizzes: Improved Accommodation Tray

Improved: Instructors can adjust time accommodations and reopen an attempt from one tray, with the student's total allowed time shown before changes are saved.

Admin Tools: Sub-Account Grade Change Search

Improved: Authorized sub-account admins can search Grade Change Activity by course, grader, student, or assignment within their sub-account.

Account Settings: Notification Suppression

New: Admins can suppress all notifications or selected notification categories at the root-account level.