Canvas LMS

Canvas is a modern, open-source LMS developed and maintained by Instructure Inc. It is released under the AGPLv3 license for use by anyone interested in learning more about or using learning management systems.

Please see our main wiki page for more information

Installation

Detailed instructions for installation and configuration of Canvas are provided on our wiki.

• Quick Start
• Production Start

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

3.0.0 - 2025-03-31

Changed

• Upgraded Instructure UI dependencies to version 10
• Upgraded studio-player package to 0.4.5
• Removed media_links_use_attachment_id feature flag

1.9.0 - 2024-10-18

Added

• New optional media player for upload previews

Changed

• Upgraded React to 18

1.8.0 - 2023-10-11

Changed

• Upgraded Instructure UI dependencies to version 8

Fixed

• A small bug that incorrectly determined media types

1.7.1 - 2023-09-26

Fixed

• An issue where media controls don't respond in Safari
• Accessibility issues when adding media captions
• An issue where inherited media captions don't appear in the media captions list

1.7.0 - 2023-08-15

Added

• Explanations for inherited media captions and associated translations

Changed

• Reduced amount of console errors when running jest tests by providing missing props, fixing async issues, etc in tests

1.6.0 - 2023-06-30

Added

• An alert if the user uploads a caption file that's too large

Changed

• Improved the i18n string extraction process

Fixed

• Some missing translations
• An issue where closed caption selection didn't work in full screen

1.4.0 - 2022-11-03

Changed

• No longer need to provide closed caption language list

1.3.0 - 2022-08-17

Added

• A changelog to make changes clear