May 20, 2026
Several features described in this edition are
Feature Options that can be enabled or disabled at the course level. These Features Options
will be enabled by default starting on May 20, 2026. If you do want these features available in your Canvas course, you can disable the feature option:
How do I manage feature options for a course?Enhanced Rubrics - An Improved Rubrics Experience
We all know the pedagogical value of rubrics, but creating and using rubrics in Canvas hasn't always been easy. Enhanced Rubrics is a major overhaul of entire Canvas Rubrics workflow, offering an improved experience in the following functional areas (click on each for a short video demo):
If you prefer to revert to the legacy Rubrics workflow, you may disable the Enhanced Rubrics Feature Option in your courses as described above.
Related Canvas Guides:
AI Quiz Question Authoring Assistance
In New Quizzes, instructors can now use AI to generate quiz questions, based on instructor-designated source material only: course content (pages, files, etc), an uploaded file, or entered text. Instructors can also add a topic focus, depth of knowledge,and Bloom's taxonomy level. Currently, only multiple-choice questions can be generated, and only 5 questions can be generated at once. However, after adding 5 questions, more can be added to the same quiz.
Concerned about AI in Canvas? A few things to note:
- This feature is instructor-facing only. Students will not even be aware that AI was used unless the instructor chooses to inform them.
- This feature is optional. The system will not access your course material unless you choose to use it, and even then it will only access the material that you direct it to.
- If you don't even want to see the button, you can disable the feature option in your course as described above
- Instructure is committed to applying AI with an intentional, secure, and human-driven approach in its new Canvas features. Users can view the AI Nutrition Facts specifically for the Question Authoring feature, which reveal which AI model is used and how data is used by the model. Read more about Instructure's AI Principles and view its AI Privacy Policy.
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New Canvas-Native Portfolio Experience
Some older portfolio tools (Folio/Portfolium/Canvas Student ePortfolios) previously available in Canvas will be sunset on June 30, 2026. If you have used these products in the past, please refer to Sunset Date for Canvas Student ePortfolios (Portfolium) & New Portfolio Solution for more information about exporting or migrating old portfolio content.
If you've never explored using portfolios in Canvas, now is the perfect time to start. There is a brand-new, native Canvas Portfolio solution (hereafter referred to as simply Portfolio). The new Portfolio provides an easy-to-use solution for an end-of-course retrospective assessment: instructors can direct students pull multiple past assignments into a bundled portfolio, along with other documents and artifacts. Portfolios can even be linked to multiple courses to make an end-of-program cumulative portfolio. Finally, students can also create similar portfolios independently (called "Showcase Portfolios") - they can select work from multiple classes, add additional artifacts, and share their Portfolio with a public link.
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