Canvas users can create and edit recurring calendar events. Teachers, assistants, and designers can create them for course calendars; any user can create them for their personal calendar.
releases
Canvas Release Highlights for September 2023
SpeedGrader & DocViewer display Apple Pages, Numbers, & Keynote files. Teachers can create point-based grading schemes. Links to pages change automatically when pages are renamed. New Quizzes has several updates.
Canvas Release Highlights August 2023
Teachers can use new gradebook filters, replace course link targets more easily, and convert Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes while importing content. Canvas releases arrive the third Saturday each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for July 2023
Canvas users will see updated interfaces in the Inbox/Messages tool and in grading schemes selection. Canvas production releases arrive on the third Saturday of each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for June 2023
Teachers can publish or unpublish all modules at once. Teachers using New Quizzes may hide practice quizzes from the gradebook & embed content from apps. User access report data is limited to 1 year.
Canvas Release Highlights for May 2023
Teachers can specify display size for embedded Canvas Studio videos. Studio saves caption edits automatically. Canvas releases arrive on the third Saturday each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for April 2023
All users can download transcripts for captioned Studio media. Teachers can grade New Quizzes one question at a time, set Studio playback start time, and share NQ item banks and sort grades in new ways.
Canvas Release Highlights for March 2023
Canvas Studio’s caption editing interface features several improvements. Canvas Gradebook has a new feature allowing teachers and TAs to upload files as assignment submissions on behalf of students.
Canvas Release Highlights for February 2023
All users can copy and paste or drag and drop images and other media into the Canvas Rich Content Editor. Canvas Feature Releases occur on the third Saturday of each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for January 2023
Instructure planned to release an updated interface for Canvas Conversations (a.k.a. Inbox or Messages). They rolled the change back quickly after discovering issues. Canvas production feature releases occur on the third Saturday of the month.
Canvas Release Highlights for December 2022
The New Quizzes tool now uses the Canvas rich content editor (replacing its separate RCE). Instructure removed Unsplash image search within Canvas. Canvas releases arrive the third Saturday each month.
Canvas Release Highlights for October 2022
Canvas teachers will be able to schedule publication for unpublished pages and choose institution or public visibility levels for course files. Canvas releases arrive the third Saturday of each month.