Canvas and Microsoft shipped AI agents to 40% of colleges this spring — governance hasn't caught up

Instructure's IgniteAI Agent automates multi-step faculty workflows across 500+ Canvas APIs — rubric generation, discussion review, due date adjustments, accessibility checks. It shipped free to every U.S. Canvas customer. Microsoft embedded similar edtech AI capabilities into 365 at no extra cost: lesson planning, quiz calibration, adaptive tutoring for students 13+.

These aren't chatbots. They're agents executing bulk actions inside institutional systems. And the governance gap is massive — most schools running these AI education tools have zero formal policy for AI that can take autonomous action across their LMS.