Instructors sometimes ask us if there is a way to create Canvas assignments that are automatically graded and marked as…
Canvas

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.

Save Time Building Your Canvas Courses by Using the Multi-Tool
The Multi-Tool is a set of 4 tools available in Canvas that provides some very useful time-saving features. You can…

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.

Canvas Release Highlights for November 2024
We have no feature highlights from the November 2024 Canvas production release. Releases occur on the third Saturday of each month.

Canvas Release Highlights for October 2024
The highlights for October 2024 are improvements to New Quizzes moderation options and student result view settings, Announcement posted date display, and Discussions navigation.

Understanding How to Restrict Students’ View of Quiz Results In New Quizzes
We have received emails from instructors stating that the settings for restricting student quiz results in New Quizzes is not…