July 2026 - Students can highlight, flag unclear or important content, add notes, and manage everything from a Notebook page in their course. This helps them stay engaged with readings and makes it easier to review, reflect, and remember key material over...
June 2026 - Peer Reviews now handle matching, dates, and points for you, cutting admin work while keeping expectations clear for students. Instructors can set strict or flexible pairing rules per assignment, reducing setup time and giving students more...
June 2026 - New Canvas AI tools that help you review discussions, build rubrics, and search course content. IgniteAI Search for Courses helps you quickly find content across your course with results tailored to your words and available in multiple...
April 2026 - In SpeedGrader, instructors can rotate pages before adding annotations so feedback is clear and easy to read. Students see comments in that orientation, and pages can’t be rotated again unless annotations are removed.
April 2026 - Canvas media in the Rich Content Editor now adds automatic captions, interactive transcripts, and better playback controls to make course videos easier to use. Students can search and click within transcripts to jump to key moments, follow...
April 2026 - Students can turn on the new Dashboard to track progress with widgets, see all assignments in one list, and view course grades at a glance. Only users with a Student-Only Role can use this customized dashboard.
February 2026 - A “View status for colorblindness” option adds symbols to Gradebook statuses, making them easier to distinguish without relying on color alone. Enable this in Gradebook settings by checking the View status for colorblindness box for...
Jan 2026 - Students can set their pronouns directly in Canvas by going to Account → Settings → Edit Settings and selecting from the Pronouns dropdown. If no pronouns are set, nothing will display.
Dec 2025 - Choose to release grades and feedback together or schedule them to release separately for each assignment in Gradebook. ***Comments must be released before grades if scheduled separately. Manual grade release overrides any schedule. Note...
