Dr. Jason Ashe shares how intentional design decisions leverage Canvas features to solve instructional challenges with support from TLT in the most recent Teaching with Canvas cohort.
Canvas Release Highlights for February 2026
Teachers can activate icons indicating submissions with special statuses in the gradebook. This makes the gradebook more visually accessible. Canvas releases arrive the third Saturday of the month.
Making Canvas Work for You: Everything Starts with Assignments
Assignments are not just submissions. They are the students’ organization system, the structural spine of a course. Learn how Canvas assignments work and how to set them up, double check, and reuse them.
Canvas Release Highlights for January 2026
We have no feature highlights for January 2026. Production releases arrive in Canvas on the third Saturday of each month.
Streamline Your Course with DesignPLUS QuickStart Wizard
As you begin working on your Spring ’26 course shells, don’t overlook the DesignPLUS QuickStart Wizard.
Canvas Release Highlights for December 2025
Teachers using manual posting policies can schedule when to post grades and comments. Teachers can create surveys using New Quizzes. These features arrive Saturday, December 13, 2025.
Tips and Tools for a Successful Course Copy
Course shells for Spring ’26 are now available in Canvas. If you are reusing content from prior semesters for your…
Canvas Release Highlights for November 2025
We have no feature highlights for November 2025. Production releases arrive in Canvas on the third Saturday of each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for October 2025
We have no feature highlights for October 2025. Production releases arrive in Canvas on the third Saturday of each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for September 2025
Canvas users can open a grid view of student photos on the People page. Teachers can migrate embedded YouTube videos into Canvas Studio with a new tool. Canvas releases arrive the third Saturday of the month.
What is Google’s “Homework Help”?
In this post we discuss the Chrome browser’s recently added “Homework Help” feature and how students using Canvas may encounter it.
Notes on Canvas & AI for Fall 2025
This post explains the generally available IgniteAI tools in Canvas. At Emory, teachers have the option to enable Smart Search in their Fall 2025 courses.