Making the Move to Canvas Studio

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Starting September 22, 2025, YouTube videos in Canvas may start showing ads and recommendations.

Teachers can keep the students’ experience uninterrupted and distraction free by making sure that any YouTube videos they use are added to Canvas Studio.

With the YouTube Player for Education integration, YouTube videos in Canvas Studio will stream:
• without distractions, recommendations, or links back to YouTube.
• with viewers remaining anonymous to YouTube through a “signed-out” viewing state.
• with captioning from YouTube to maintain accessibility

Take the time to ensure your YouTube videos are ready for this change.

Within your Canvas courses, teachers will now see YouTube Migration Tool in their Course Navigation.

Canvas also has a Step-by-step migration guide and an FAQs page.

Did you know, Canvas Studio is also a great tool for teachers to use with any YouTube video, even videos that are not housed within a Canvas course?

By using Canvas Studio to view YouTube videos with a public link, viewers also gain the benefits of the YouTube Player for Education integration!

 

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Important Updates to Google/Canvas Integration

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Google Assignments (LTI 1.3)

In Fall of 2021, Google Assignments and Canvas expanded Google Docs Editors and Google Drive to be compatible with Canvas for file submissions. With Assignments, you can distribute and grade student work, analyze student submissions for plagiarism detection, and use Google Docs and Drive with Canvas.  This version is officially supported by Google and covered by the Google Workspace for Education Terms of Service and Uses Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) 1.3 for stronger security.

 

For additional information on using Google Assignments LTI 1.3 with Canvas, please visit these resources:

 

Google Cloud Assignments (LTI 1.1)

In October 2023, Google stopped supporting this older integration.  Teachers need to transition to Google Assignments (LTI 1.3)  What does this mean for teachers?

  • Beginning the 2025-2026 school year, teachers will no longer be able to create new Canvas assignments using Google Cloud Assignments as an External Tool in Canvas
  • Teachers need to convert/copy any current assignments from Google Cloud Assignments to Google Assignments (LTI 1.3).  We recommend copying the assignment before converting to prevent loss of any student submissions.
  • Beginning January 5, 2026 any legacy assignments using the Google Cloud Assignments integration will no longer work.

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Using Lucid in Canvas

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Maximize your Canvas experience with Lucid’s intuitive tools.

This integration gives educators and students alike an elevated teaching and learning experience in Canvas through interactive assignments, collaborative whiteboarding, and more engaging activities.

The Lucid team has built a central space for Canvas + Lucid resources to help support the new integration. This site provides documentation, videos, FAQs, and more to help users get started maximizing Lucid tools within Canvas. This hub is intended to help educators and students alike to understand the features available, applications of Lucid tools, training offerings, and supporting documentation to help with any additional administrative needs.

Note that this page is organized by role, so please feel free to explore the various resources available for each role, with additional options to view video tutorials, explore the help center, and more.

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