Canvas Updates & Reminders

Canvas Tips, Tricks:Firefox, Chrome & SpeedGrader
If you add inline comments to student submissions in the SpeedGrader when using Firefox you may have noticed that the last comment doesn’t ‘stick’ unless you click outside the comment balloon. We learned recently that this is an issue with Crocodoc and Firefox and not likely to be corrected. (Although there will be a mitigation introduced in this upcoming sprint.) However, if you use Chrome the comments will ‘stick’ without the need to click outside the balloon. (We do not recommend using Internet Explorer with Canvas.)

 
Spring 2016 Canvas Courses: Your Spring 2016 Canvas course shells have generated! You can find them under your Courses menu. You can either copy content yourself, or contact someone from the Learning Technologies Team and we’ll copy the content for you. Remember to automatically modify your assignment due dates if you roll content forward.

New Turnitin Integration: Turnitin is deprecating its current process for integrating with Canvas. Instead, they have developed an LTI extension. This new LTI extension will be installed over the Christmas break and will have a noticeable impact on the product workflow. Unfortunately, we have no option as the current integrator will not be supported past this quarter. We’ll create some tutorial videos in the coming weeks that illustrate the process for adding Turnitin to an assignment submission.

New Canvas User Interface: Is coming! You’ve seen hints of the new design in the updates. We’ll plan on rolling out the new interface at the conclusion of the Spring, 2016 term. Watch for more information regarding opportunities to learn about these changes and how they impact your Canvas experience.