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Canvas schedules regular maintenance on the 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month. Most maintenance windows will take place sometime between the hours of 12:05am and 4:05am local time. Canvas may be unavailable during maintenance times.

Canvas guides provide topic specific help documents for instructors and students. You can search the guides or use the table of contents to locate a subject.

Canvas Instructor Guide
Canvas Mobile App Guides
Canvas Student Guide

The Canvas Community can provide answers to common questions, share ideas, and you can join Canvas groups. The Canvas Community has over 450,000 users sharing and collaborating.

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Canvas Mobile Release Notes

Student Android
Student iOS
Teacher Android
Teacher iOS

Canvas Release Notes

Canvas Release Notes maintain a current list of features and changes that will be deployed in a Canvas release. All features listed in the release notes will be available as part of the production release.

November 16, 2024
October 19, 2024
September 21, 2024
August 17, 2024
July 20, 2024
June 15, 2024
May 18, 2024
April 20, 2024
March 16, 2024
February 17, 2024
January 20, 2024
December 16, 2023
December 12, 2023
November 22, 2023
November 18, 2023
October 21, 2023
September 16, 2023

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Communication and Working with Students

Assessing Students

Developing Content

Canvas Tools

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