On Friday, June 30th Canvas informed its clients they will be conducting a maintenance on their SCORM integration starting Friday, July 7th 1:00 AM EST and lasting 3 hours. During the maintenance period SCORM content will be unavailable in your Canvas course. Canvas’ original message below. “Hi Admins— We’ll […]
06/26/2017 – VeriCite Plagiarism Report Upgrade
VeriCite has updated the plagiarism report’s user interface for VeriCite enabled Canvas assignments. Plagiarism reports for the old VeriCite external tool have not changed. For more information on how to use VeriCite in your course see our VeriCite articles in the UNF Canvas KB. Information on how to read VeriCite’s […]
Canvas Online Training
Participate in instructor-led online workshops geared towards new and advanced Canvas users. Workshops include course basics, managing quizzes, outcomes and rubrics, and data for teachers. Create an account and sign up now as registration is required.
New Canvas DocViewer
On June 20th, 2017, Canvas will replace the Crocodoc document previewer in SpeedGrader with their own native tool Canvas DocViewer. Canvas has assured its community that the transition will be seamless and documents already rendered and/or annotated using Crocodoc will be available for you to view as normal in the […]
6/6/2017 – ePortfolio Issue in Canvas – Resolved
On Wednesday, June 7th @1:44PM EST, Canvas announced the issue with ePortfolio is fixed. Original message below: Resolved – Our engineering team was able to identify the cause of the issue and deploy a resolution. Users should now be able to save content in ePortfolios. We apologize for the inconvenience […]
Updates in the 6-3-2017 Production Release
In this production release (June 3), any Course Home Page can display recent announcements, content exports expire after 30 days, and the Gradebook Individual View displays weighted grading periods. The Rich Content Editor sidebar enhancements are available for all areas of Canvas including Quizzes, and the Rich Content Editor includes […]
5/31/2017 – Blackboard Retirement
At 11:59PM Wednesday, May 31st Blackboard will be retired, and all courses that were in it will be gone. CIRT has been working with faculty on migrating courses from Blackboard to Canvas since last summer, but after the shutdown CIRT will no longer be able to migrate any courses. The […]
5/15/2017 – Canvas Support Phone Quality Issue (resolved)
At 3:20PM on Monday, May 15th Canvas informed us of an issue they were experiencing with their support team’s phone system. They reported the issue fixed, same day, at 4:20PM. Below is the original message. -LMS Team The phone system used by our Canvas Support team is currently having trouble, […]
Updates in the 5-13-2017 Production Release
In this production release (May 13), the Dashboard allows users to remove the color overlay from any course cards that include an image. In an individual course page, the page settings menu supports the Use as Front Page option. Several improvements have also been made in account-level reports. Production release […]
5/1/2017 – Blackboard Sharestream Uploads Disabled
Media uploads to Sharestream from Blackboard will be disabled on May 1, 2017. This includes adding media to a course and student Sharestream Media Assignment submissions. This change is part of the university’s transition to Canvas. The Arc media tool is now available in Canvas. If you need to preserve […]
