Canvas Release Highlights for August 15, 2020

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Instructure will release updates to our Canvas environment Saturday, August 15, 2020. With this release: 

  • Teachers can select multiple pages on the Pages index using checkbox to delete more than one at a time.
  • All users can review dismissed global announcements via the link in their account menu.

Click here to view the full Canvas release notes for August 15, 2020. The full notes contain more details about these and other changes, a link to a screencast explaining some of the changes contained in the release, a comments section, and role-specific user summaries. You can join in the discussion if you log in to the Canvas Community.

Production feature releases arrive on the third Saturday of each month. Click here to view release notes on Canvas Community. Instructure also lists noteworthy changes planned for future releases.

An additional reminder: the New RCE (Rich Content Editor) is enabled by default in official courses and sandbox courses in Canvas at Emory. Please read about this important change if you have yet to do so in “Transition to Canvas’s New RCE”.

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