Introduction

Canvas Release 17/11/2018

Canvas Release 17/11/2018

The majority of updates in this release centred around background updates. There have also been several updates to the mobile apps, introducing some really useful features such as file search, the ability to annotate on images and .

Mobile Updates

Files Search (Canvas Student 6.4 and Teacher iOS 1.7)

In this update, the Canvas Teacher app supports searching for files stored within Canvas.

SpeedGrader- Eraser Tool (Teacher iOS 1.7)

SpeedGrader supports erasing drawing annotations with the Eraser tool. The Eraser tool cannot erase any other annotations.

Image Annotations (Teacher iOS 1.7)

SpeedGrader now supports adding annotations to images. Previously, all annotation tools were unavailable for images.

Conferences (Student Android 6.4)

The Student app supports opening Conferences in a web view. The BigBlueButton mobile interface is displayed after joining a live conference. Previously, the BigBlueButton mobile interface could only be accessed using a mobile browser.

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