Collapsed course menu persists across courses. Canvas warns about unsaved submission comments. New Quizzes matching questions offer scoring options. Releases arrive the third Saturday of each month.
Release Notes
Canvas Release Highlights for December 2021
Teachers can publish a course from the course settings area. Teachers can adjust New Analytics report criteria for “online attendance.”
Canvas Release Highlights for November 2021
Students see unread indicator dots for new assignment & rubric feedback. Teachers see text submission word counts in SpeedGrader. Canvas releases occur the third Saturday of each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for October 2021
Course navigation menus remain visible on long pages, may have own scroll bars. RCE shows accessibility notifications. Teachers can search gradebook by assignment. Releases arrive on the third Saturday each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for September 2021
No major changes are indicated in the September Canvas production release. Releases occur on the third Saturday of each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for August 2021
Teachers see a new tab in New Analytics displaying online “attendance” (daily activity for each student). Teachers can preview RCE accessibility notifications. Teachers can print from New Quizzes.
Canvas Release Highlights for July 2021
SMS text message notifications cease. Instructure begins scheduled maintenance windows on 1st & 3rd Thursdays in early morning hours. Small improvements come to New Quizzes, Gradebook, & HTML editor.
Canvas Release Highlights for June 2021
Teachers can save comments to reuse in SpeedGrader submission comments. New Quizzes offers improved item bank management. Feature releases come to Canvas the third Saturday of each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for May 2021
Teachers can allow student annotation submissions: they choose a file that students annotate like a worksheet. Canvas releases arrive the third Saturday of each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for April 2021
Teachers see more clearly whether their course is set to use term end dates or course-specific end dates, which they can modify. Canvas feature releases arrive the third Saturday of each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for March 2021
This release introduces new file link preview behaviors (inline preview by default, a download icon, an overlay display option). Teachers can reassign submissions. Students can submit webcam images.
Canvas Release Highlights for February 2021
Student View buttons are labeled with words. File links get download icons. The HTML editor displays pretty code. Canvas renders delimited LaTeX equations. Teachers may enter override grades using CSV.