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.
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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 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 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 August 2024
The highlights for August 2024 are a general feedback feature for New Quizzes and an interface change to manage Assign…