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Canvas Release: IgniteAI Features for Courses

Rutgers 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. For each feature listed, please review the corresponding IgniteAI Nutrition Facts. These provide information on the AI data model, privacy, and compliance. While customer and course data are used as inputs, the data models have not been provided with this data to improve results.

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? Read the IgniteAI Nutrition Facts: Search.

 

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? Read the IgniteAI Nutrition Facts: Summaries for Discussions.

 

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. Read the IgniteAI Nutrition Facts: Translations for Inbox.

 

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? Read the IgniteAI Nutrition Facts: Translations for Discussions & Announcements.

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: