Rutgers.eduRutgers Canvas is pleased to announce the availability of several IgniteAI features for Canvas courses. IgniteAI is Instructure’s AI offering, built directly into Canvas. It’s designed to help educators save time, surface insights, and personalise instruction without giving up control. The features described below must be enabled by a course instructor or by a user.
IgniteAI Search in Courses
This is an optional feature; course editors must enable this option. See How do I manage feature options for a course?
Leveraging semantic algorithms and AI, IgniteAI Search enables users to search Canvas course content by understanding query context and returning relevant results. Within a course, the IgniteAI Search feature queries content pages, announcements, discussion prompts, and assignment descriptions. IgniteAI Search does not search across different courses at this time. See What is IgniteAI Search for Courses?
IgniteAI Summaries for Discussions
This option is a feature preview and is under active development; course editors must enable it. See How do I manage feature options for a course?
IgniteAI Summaries for Discussions use a Generative AI model to summarize the main points, questions, and ideas in a discussion thread. These summaries are only available to instructors and administrators.This feature requires the Discussion/Announcement Redesign feature option to be enabled. See What are IgniteAI Summaries for Discussions?
IgniteAI Translations for Inbox Messages
This option is a feature preview and is under active development.
Inbox Translation is an AI-powered translation tool for Inbox users that lets them translate an inbox message while composing. It allows users to choose if the translated version should appear first or second in the message. Both the original and the translated versions will be included. The message sender enables the option and selects 1 of the 10 supported languages. Translations use new models for improved accuracy, speed, and consistency, with AWS Translate for Inbox translations. See How do I translate an Inbox Message using IgniteAI Translations?
IgniteAI Translations for Discussions and Announcements
This option is a feature preview and is under active development; course editors must enable it. See How do I manage feature options for a course?
Discussion Translation is an AI-powered translation tool for Discussion users to translate discussion topics and replies. It is also present in Announcements. When enabled, the option applies to both Discussions and Announcements and cannot be toggled separately. Translations use new models for improved accuracy, speed, and consistency, with Claude 3 Haiku for Discussion translations. In the translation experience, users can view the source text and the translated version separately, and use dedicated user interface controls to manage translations and close them without refreshing the page. Currently, 10 languages are supported. See the following guides for more information and videos: