We have no feature highlights for October 2025. Production releases arrive in Canvas on the third Saturday of each month.
Author: Samuel Timme
Sam began supporting faculty using Emory's learning management system in 2013. He taught several courses at Emory as a doctoral student in philosophy, and he completed his degree in 2019. Sam comes from Nebraska originally. Some of his favorite things are coffee, cats, & vegetarian cooking.
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.
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.
Canvas Release Highlights for August 2025
This month we enabled DesignPLUS QuickStart Wizard, Discussion Checkpoints, and Preserve Group Sets for all courses. Enhanced Rubrics & updated SpeedGrader feature options are available but disabled by default.
Canvas Release Highlights for July 2025
Users can enable a dyslexia friendly font. Course Files has a new interface. Teachers can update discussion threading in bulk. Users may archive Canvas Studio media. Canvas feature releases arrive the third Saturday each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for June 2025
We have no feature highlights for June 2025. Production releases arrive in Canvas on the third Saturday of each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for May 2025
This month’s highlight features are a new Text Block item type and the ability to add time to in-progress attempts in New Quizzes.
Canvas Release Highlights for April 2025
All users will see new playback controls for Canvas Studio media. Releases occur on the third Saturday of each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for March 2025
Teachers, TAs, and designers can choose thread state & sort order options in Discussion threads’ settings. They may also lock the settings. Canvas releases arrive the third Saturday of each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for February 2025
February 2025’s highlight is that all Classic Quiz question banks will be migrated to New Quizzes item banks in the course import process.
Canvas Release Highlights for January 2025
New Quizzes has several new features: student analysis reports, automatic reduction of distractors in multiple choice questions.
Canvas Release Highlights for December 2024
Student can see their groups’ course names in the Groups tray. No production release is scheduled this month in observance of winter breaks & holidays.