Updates in the 9-15-2018 Production Release

In this Canvas release (September 15),Gradebook CSV import files support updates for custom columns. The SpeedGrader sidebar includes a link to export submission comments as a PDF when the assignment is visible to students. Conferences supports WebRTC web screen sharing for presenters and HTML5 participant conference viewing in mobile browsers. For all users, the default course color hex values in the Calendar and Card View Dashboard have been updated to display a color contrast of 3:1 for the default Canvas interface.

Other updates are also available in various APIs and documentation.

Production release notes also include fixed bugs.

View the Canvas Production Release Notes (2018-09-15)

Updated Features

 

• Assignments
  • Bulk Select Final Moderated Grades
  • Moderated Student Name SpeedGrader Links
• Conferences
  • WebRTC Web Screen Share
  • HTML5 Mobile Browser Support
• DocViewer
  • Anonymous Grading Annotated Comments
• Gradebook
  • CSV Import Custom Column Support
• New Gradebook
  • New Gradebook and SpeedGrader Section Filtering
• People
  • Profiles Last Attended Date
• SpeedGrader
  • Submission Comments PDF Export
  • Moderated Grading Rubric Review

Other Updates

• Calendar
  • Default Course Color Values
• Dashboard
  • Default Course Color Values

Fixed Bug

For a complete list of fixed bugs in this release, see  Fixed Bugs