July 2025 Newsletter

Hello, Cidi Labs Customer Community! We’re coming at you fresh off InstructureCon, and as always, we are so grateful and energized to have seen so many of you! The important work you do continues to inspire us to deliver awesome products and support that have your needs at the center. Read on for opportunities to see what you may have missed!

Upcoming Events

The Course Design Showdown: August 12th at 11am MT

Join us for a virtual rendition of our InstructureCon session, a Canvas solution showdown—game show style! Contestants will work their way through common course design challenges and reveal stunning and streamlined results in record time. Be inspired as each challenge puts the contestants’ course design skills and powerhouse tools from Cidi Labs to the test to achieve big wins in Canvas that are fast, fun, and scalable.

Canvas Interactivity That’s Accessible!
August 19th at 10:30am MT

Looking for simple ways to boost engagement and ensure accessibility in your Canvas courses? In this 30-minute session, we’ll reveal new interactive DesignPLUS elements and show how easy it can be to add interactivity to your Canvas courses that engages students, supports accessibility, and saves you time—a triple win! You’ll discover how easy it is to add: Ordering Activities, Sorting Interactions, Fill-in-the-Blank Questions, Flashcards, Flip Cards. Whether you’re a designer or an instructor, you’ll leave with ready-to-use ideas that make your content shine, without sacrificing usability. Everyone wins with Cidi Labs!

Managing Accessibility Initiatives and Continuous Improvement
Aug 26, 2025 at 12pm MT

If leading an accessibility initiative feels overwhelming, you’re not alone—coordinating the many parts and players from end to end is no small feat. Are you looking for a way to support and manage it all so that the work is streamlined and can happen at scale? Then don’t miss this session where we’ll showcase a practical accessibility workflow from grasping the state of accessibility at your institution all the way to supporting best practices while editing a Canvas page. Plus, we’ll demonstrate how Cidi Labs tools help streamline efforts, reduce the workload, centralize communication, and document progress all without leaving Canvas—making it easier to stay organized and keep accessibility moving forward as a continuous, sustainable effort.

Product Updates

Now in Beta! NEW Ways to Embed Learner Support

These exciting new, fully accessible, interactive DesignPLUS elements are now available as a beta feature to provide you with even more options to reinforce learning right on your Canvas course pages.

Recent Releases

For details on June’s product releases, please refer to the respective Release Notes:

DesignPLUS Release Notes
UDOIT Release Notes
ReadyGO Release Notes – Featuring NEW Dynamic Batches!
TidyUP Release Notes
Cidiscape Release Notes

Also, joining our Customer Community on Slack is a great way to get notified as soon as product updates are released!

New Video Tutorials

DesignPLUS: Flip Cards

DesignPLUS Flip Cards are a great tool to promote learning through active thinking and recall. They allow you to create purposeful pauses for your learners through interactivity. Use these (fully accessible!) Flip Cards for flashcards, vocabulary terms, language learning, deeper dives into concepts, and more!

ReadyGO: Customize Column Visibility

Learn about the wide variety of columns that you can include in your Courses table view in order to access the data you need most.

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