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.
Author: Samuel Timme
Sam began supporting faculty using Emory's learning management system in 2013. He taught several courses at Emory as a doctoral student in philosophy, and he completed his degree in 2019. Sam comes from Nebraska originally. Some of his favorite things are coffee, cats, & vegetarian cooking.
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.
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.
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.
Canvas Release Highlights for January 2025
New Quizzes has several new features: student analysis reports, automatic reduction of distractors in multiple choice questions.
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.
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.
Canvas Release Highlights for October 2024
The highlights for October 2024 are improvements to New Quizzes moderation options and student result view settings, Announcement posted date display, and Discussions navigation.
Canvas Release Highlights for September 2024
New text formatting options are available in SpeedGrader submission comments. New Analytics data latency is reduced to less than one day. Canvas releases arrive the third Saturday of each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for August 2024
The highlights for August 2024 are a general feedback feature for New Quizzes and an interface change to manage Assign…
Canvas Release Highlights for July 2024
Teachers can assign modules & pages to specific sections or students. All users can set automatic responses & signatures for messages. The Discussions Redesign is enabled in all courses.
Canvas Release Highlights for June 2024
Teachers and other graders can record video feedback in SpeedGrader using screen capture in Chrome & Edge web browsers. Canvas feature releases arrive the third Saturday each month.