Banner Unavailable May 18-21 All Banner applications will be unavailable 5 p.m. Friday, May 18, through 6 a.m. Monday, May 21, to update the hardware in preparation for the Banner 9 deployment taking place later this year. MyWings will be available, but could experience slowness. Canvas may be accessed directly here and […]
Updates in the 5-12-2018 Production Release
In this production release (May 12), Yo is no longer supported as a Canvas web service. Additionally, the Files Settings menu icon has been replaced with the Options icon. For instructors, the Announcements commenting option is persistent per user across all courses that allow announcement replies. For students, the submission […]
Canvas: Scheduled Maintenance on 5/22/2018 at 4:00 AM
At 4:09PM Monday, May 7th Canvas Support announced a 10 minute maintenance they must conduct on May 22nd @4:00AM. Their original message follows. Canvas Status Update Scheduled maintenance on 5/22/2018 at 2:00 AM MST (8:00 AM UTC) Hi Admins— We’ll be performing a brief maintenance event on your Canvas instance […]
VoiceThread Maintenance
VoiceThread made the following maintenance announcement on Friday, May 4th at 12:35PM Dear Administrator, Amazon Web Services will be performing system updates on Saturday, May 19 from 5:00 AM to 5:40 AM EDT (UTC -4). This means that VoiceThread will be offline for this period. Date: 5/19/2018 Duration: 40 minutes VoiceThread service […]
Updates in the 4-21-2018 Production Release
In this production release (April 21), in Conferences, individual recordings can be individually deleted. The Rich Content Editor expands auto-open inline files to display the full file preview and includes a word counter within each editor window. And the Announcements page includes an updated icon for the Reply icon. Other […]
Updates in the 3-31-2018 Production Release
In this production release (March 31), users with the manage Learning Outcomes permission can import outcomes into a course using a CSV file. Outcome edits can be updated in outcomes for both assessed and unassessed rubrics. In DocViewer, individual comments include an icon that displays the type and color of […]
New Gradebook
The new gradebook is now available in Canvas. The new gradebook tool is optional and there will be no changes to the way your currently grade if you choose not to enable it in your course. While it is available to turn on in your Spring courses, it is strongly […]
New Gradebook
The New Gradebook makes grading quicker with its intuitive interface and cutting down time spent trying to find assignments and student submissions. Currently, the New Gradebook is an opt-in feature and must be enabled in your course, and when the feature option is enabled at the course level in Course […]
Missing and Late Submission Policies
The missing and late submission policies are features only found in the new gradebook feature of Canvas. You can find additional information about the new gradebook, and how to enable it, in the New Gradebook article. Missing Submission Policy The Missing Submission policy lets you automatically apply a grade for […]
Updates in the 3-10-2018 Production Release
In this production release (March 10), In courses, the Announcements page includes an updated design and several feature enhancements, including announcements by section, that will be distributed for all institutions across a tiered release schedule directly after the release. Additionally, the Outcomes page includes a minor directional change to the […]