New features and improvements expand
functionality and empower lifelong learners and non-traditional
students
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LAKE CITY, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Instructure,
the maker of Canvas, today announced improvements to many of the
solutions that make up the industry-leading Instructure Learning
Platform coinciding with its annual InstructureCon education event.
Canvas LMS now serves as the hub of learning for tens of millions
of teachers and students in 70 countries. By adding innovative
solutions in additional edtech areas such as assessment, content
and analytics, the Instructure Learning Platform demonstrates a
commitment to meeting the needs of K-12, Higher Ed and lifelong
learners throughout the world. To register for InstructureCon 2022,
go to https://www.instructure.com/events/instructurecon.
"Our desire to understand the unique needs of educators and
learners worldwide informs our strategy for developing, refining
and integrating new products into the Instructure Learning
Platform," said Shiren Vijiasingam, Chief Product Officer at
Instructure. "One of the key differentiators for Instructure is a
product team that prioritizes gathering constructive feedback and
leveraging it to create better products efficiently. This focus on
innovation empowers educators to do what they do best."
Here are some of the recent updates that make the Instructure
Learning Platform even more powerful in 2022:
Updated Brand
Architecture
Instructure has added many strategic tools through acquisition
over the last few years. To help navigate this growing family of
products, this year Instructure launched a new branding
architecture:
- Canvas by Instructure: Learning management
solutions built to make teaching and learning easier and more
engaging for everyone, throughout their lifelong learning
journey.
- Mastery by Instructure: Bringing together the assessment
tools and content educators need to implement a successful
assessment program that drives learning forward.
- Elevate by Instructure: Improving the use of data
and analytics to help solve student and institutional challenges
and give educators the information they need to make impactful
decisions.
- Impact by Instructure: Driving edtech adoption
and engagement to ensure students get the best outcomes for each
solution.
Canvas Product Updates
Over the past year, our Canvas LMS teams have streamlined the
activities of educators and students to enhance the learning
process. Among the specific improvements this year, Canvas launched
the following:
- Discussions redesign: an evolved user interface
now allows for quoting replies, tagging respondents with @mentions
and the capability of flagging or reporting replies.
- Assignment enhancements for students: an improved
submission workflow includes a progress tracker for each
assignment, clear submission options, improved access to rubrics
and feedback and access to each attempt if multiple are given.
- Course pacing: a feature that allows the
automatic distribution of due dates with different start dates
based on an instructor's defined pace, all to better support
outcomes-based, or competency-based education (CBE).
- SpeedGrader and Gradebook improvements: updates
that streamline grading workflows.
Canvas Studio and Canvas
Credentials Updates
- Canvas Studio updates: Canvas Studio now supports media
uploads from Vimeo and automates uploading from Zoom. With improved
analytics, instructors can understand how students engage with
course videos.
- Canvas Catalog updates: time-saving updates streamline
purchasing and enrolling in courses, including in multiple listings
at the same time.
- Canvas Credentials: In April, Instructure completed the
acquisition of partner Concentric Sky, the makers of Badgr. The
micro-credentialing tool was rebranded as "Canvas Badges" and
"Canvas Credentials," an advanced suite of tools with unlimited
badging, analytics and personalized pathways.
Mastery Product Updates
Mastery, Instructure's competency-based solution for K-12
assessment allows teachers to identify what students know and don't
know, standard by standard, in real-time when they can most
influence learning. Recent improvements include the following:
- Enhanced Integration with Canvas: in addition to
the integration points already launched—like linking Mastery
Connect Trackers to Canvas courses, automatically creating Mastery
Connect assessments as Canvas assignments and viewing data in both
the Canvas Gradebook and Mastery Tracker— continued updates were
released that allow existing trackers to be migrated to a new
Canvas course, supporting instructors in maintaining data across
semesters or terms.
- Assessment content additions: expanded high-quality
district assessments offerings in several states.
- Expanded tools, workflows and accommodations: new
text-to-speech options and improved reporting features.
Elevate Product Updates
Educators need more tools to dive deeper into the data around
student performance so they can better meet the needs of all
learners. The recent updates to Elevate help give educators a more
complete picture of their students, curriculum and programs. For
example:
- New Assessment Analytics Edition of Elevate K-12
Analytics: gives school districts the ability to compare
student outcomes in the Mastery Connect AMS with state assessment
results and to disaggregate by demographics and enrollment.
- "Group Perspectives" like recently released student
perspectives, Group Perspectives will soon enable highly-visual and
interactive views of outcomes for student groups, such as
classrooms, schools, English Language Learners and more.
- Elevate Data Quality: planned enhancements include a new
user interface and added features such as custom rule writing, user
management and integration with Elevate K-12 Analytics will provide
additional assurances of downstream data quality in the analytics
platform.
Impact Product Updates
Last year Instructure acquired Impact (formerly Eesysoft.) This
year, the product team continues to expand integration with the
Instructure Learning Platform to provide better insight into
adoption and drive deeper and more meaningful engagement. For
example:
- Integration: Impact is expanding to even more products
in the Instructure Learning Platform.
- Impact Virtual Assistant for Tier 1 Institutions (currently
in beta): this will allow educators to intervene earlier with
users and anticipate and resolve questions or issues.
ABOUT INSTRUCTURE
Instructure (NYSE: INST) is an education technology company
dedicated to elevating student success, amplifying the power of
teaching, and inspiring everyone to learn together. Today the
Instructure Learning Platform supports tens of millions of
educators and learners around the world. Learn more at
www.instructure.com.
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CONTACT:
Brian
Watkins
Corporate Communications
Instructure
801-610-9722
brian.watkins@instructure.com
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