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.
Take a Guided Tour of Dr. Wesley Longhofer’s Canvas Course
The beginning of the semester is an inspiring time for both instructors and students. However, that inspiration can quickly turn into anxiety if students are unsure how to navigate their courses or use the tools available to them.
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.
Using Graded Surveys In Canvas for Task Tracking
Instructors sometimes ask us if there is a way to create Canvas assignments that are automatically graded and marked as…
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.