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.
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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 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 January 2025
New Quizzes has several new features: student analysis reports, automatic reduction of distractors in multiple choice questions.
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.
Canvas Release Highlights for September 2024
New text formatting options are available in SpeedGrader submission comments. New Analytics data latency is reduced to less than one day. Canvas releases arrive the third Saturday of each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for July 2024
Teachers can assign modules & pages to specific sections or students. All users can set automatic responses & signatures for messages. The Discussions Redesign is enabled in all courses.
Canvas Release Highlights for August 17, 2019
Student discussion attachments allowed by default; external tools in account flyout menu; previews and shared item banks in New Quizzes. Canvas releases arrive the third Saturday of each month.
CANVAS RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS FOR MARCH 9, 2019
This release contains upgrades: lead post author search in Discussions, calculator options in Quizzes.Next, and Canvas Commons filter & import by favorites. Canvas releases arrive every third Saturday.