In this production release (October 7), late and missing submission status labels are only displayed to instructors in SpeedGrader, and rubric criterions can include a point range instead of an individual point value. Other small updates have been made in several Canvas areas including SpeedGrader and several icons and styles […]
Updates in the 9-16-2017 Production Release
In this production release (September 16), course notifications always include the course name as the sender name, course import files expire after 500 days, and Conferences includes several interface and feature updates. Additionally, the student Assignments page includes a small change to the assignment filter buttons View the Canvas Production […]
Updates in the 8-26-2017 Production Release
In this production release (August 26), SpeedGrader has been optimized for performance in large courses. In DocViewer, Point and Area annotations no longer require comments, and DocViewer displays an annotation session warning before the session is refreshed. For all users, the Rich Content Editor includes an option to easily insert […]
8/22/2017 – Canvas Enrollment Update Delays – Resolved
At 4:30PM 8/22 the problem with SIS changes not appearing in Canvas has been resolved. As of 10:00AM Tuesday, August 22nd ITS is addressing an issue that is causing delays in student and course enrollment updates in Canvas. Typically enrollments update hourly in Canvas, but they may take longer until […]
8/10/2017 – Canvas is Unavailable – Resolved
At 12:15PM 8/10 Canvas resumed normal operations. As of 11:45AM Thursday, August 10th Canvas is not accessible. When attempting to access Canvas users may receive a blank page or a HTTP ERROR 500 message may appear. Canvas is aware of the problem and have reported it on their status page, […]
Updates in the 7-15-2017 Production Release
In this production release (July 15), assignments and pages can be duplicated in Canvas courses, and new courses default to the Modules Course Home Page layout. Observers can be invited to participate in course conferences with all course members or individually. And the Rich Content Editor sidebar enhancements that exist […]
Canvas SCORM Maintenance event on 7/7
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 […]
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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 […]
