In this Canvas release (October 19), the Course Navigation menu has been updated for improved accessibility. *Be sure to check out the Navigation chapter of the screencast below.*
For institutions using Canvas Data, admins can create Data Streams in the Canvas interface to test production systems in the beta environment.
Feature Options
- The New Course and User Analytics feature option allows institutions to enable the new course and user analytics features for an entire account. The existing course and user analytics pages are deprecated.
- The Slack Notifications feature option allows institutions to enable Slack as a contact method to receive Canvas notifications.
- The RCE Enhancements feature option allows institutions to enable the New Rich Content Editor for an entire account. The existing Rich Content Editor is deprecated.
- For institutions using the New Gradebook, the word Manual displays in the assignment header to indicate the assignment is set with the Manual Posting Policy. Additionally, the outlined Visibility icon only displays when entered grades need to be posted.
- In User Settings, the feature options to manage international preferences of byte-order mark, semicolons, and field separators are supported in account-level Outcome Results and Student Competency reports and the Learning Mastery Gradebook Export report. Additionally, the feature option descriptions have been updated to clarify the options apply to any compatible spreadsheet export.
External Tools (LTI)
- For institutions using the Commons LTI, Commons admins can view statistics for their Commons account and export the content into a CSV file.
This article is a shortened version of the full release notes from Instructure. For the full article, please click here.
Below is a screen cast summary of the release notes.