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Take a Guided Tour of Dr. Wesley Longhofer’s Canvas Course

The beginning of the semester is an inspiring time for both instructors and students. However, that inspiration can quickly turn into anxiety if students are unsure how to navigate their courses or use the tools available to them.

Athan GilletteJuly 16, 2025July 16, 2025
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Canvas Release Highlights for July 2025

Users can enable a dyslexia friendly font. Course Files has a new interface. Teachers can update discussion threading in bulk. Canvas feature releases arrive the third Saturday each month.

Samuel TimmeJuly 16, 2025July 17, 2025
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Using Graded Surveys In Canvas for Task Tracking

Instructors sometimes ask us if there is a way to create Canvas assignments that are automatically graded and marked as…

John WillinghamJune 24, 2025June 24, 2025
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Canvas Release Highlights for June 2025

We have no feature highlights for June 2025. Production releases arrive in Canvas on the third Saturday of each month.

Samuel TimmeJune 20, 2025June 20, 2025
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Save Time Building Your Canvas Courses by Using the Multi-Tool

The Multi-Tool is a set of 4 tools available in Canvas that provides some very useful time-saving features. You can…

John WillinghamJune 6, 2025June 6, 2025
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Canvas Release Highlights for May 2025

This month’s highlight features are a new Text Block item type and the ability to add time to in-progress attempts in New Quizzes.

Samuel TimmeMay 12, 2025May 12, 2025
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Canvas Release Highlights for April 2025

All users will see new playback controls for Canvas Studio media. Releases occur on the third Saturday of each month.

Samuel TimmeApril 11, 2025April 29, 2025
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Canvas Release Highlights for March 2025

Teachers, TAs, and designers can choose thread state & sort order options in Discussion threads’ settings. They may also lock the settings. Canvas releases arrive the third Saturday of each month.

Samuel TimmeMarch 14, 2025March 14, 2025
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Canvas Release Highlights for February 2025

February 2025’s highlight is that all Classic Quiz question banks will be migrated to New Quizzes item banks in the course import process.

Samuel TimmeFebruary 11, 2025February 11, 2025
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Canvas Release Highlights for January 2025

New Quizzes has several new features: student analysis reports, automatic reduction of distractors in multiple choice questions.

Samuel TimmeJanuary 16, 2025January 23, 2025
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Canvas Release Highlights for December 2024

Student can see their groups’ course names in the Groups tray. No production release is scheduled this month in observance of winter breaks & holidays.

Samuel TimmeDecember 9, 2024December 19, 2024
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Canvas Release Highlights for November 2024

We have no feature highlights from the November 2024 Canvas production release. Releases occur on the third Saturday of each month.

Samuel TimmeNovember 13, 2024November 18, 2024

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