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Canvas Updates We have summarised the most relevant changes for students and academic staff for the December update below. There have also been a number of accessibility updates improving the Canvas experience for screen reader applications. Rich Content Editor –…

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…

In this update, rubric free-form comments have been updated to work more effectively. In the student mobile app a search feature has been added to files; and in the teacher app, the content editor now allows tutors to select files…

In this release, annotations added via speedgrader to student work can be anonymised. This allows the name of the marker to remain anonymous when feedback is released to students. Canvas have also introduced the ability to rotate docviewer speedgrader documents,…

In the latest release, Canvas have made the course conferences feature web friendly on mobile devices. Allowing you and your students to connect on the go. Canvas have also introduced a PDF export function for any comments associated with a…

We’ve skipped a release because there weren’t any significant updates for end users in the last release, but we’ve combined last months updates into these release notes. Rest assured, the experts over at Canvas are still updating the system, you…

From September a new ‘Plagiarism Framework’ is available which allows Turnitin to integrate with Canvas more seamlessly. In the new integration students can submit their assignments into the Canvas interface, with TII working invisibly in the background. Tutors can quickly create assignments using…

In this release, Canvas have made some improvements to the Calendar tool and Modules area and Canvas Android app. There have also been some updates to Turnitin including the Feedback Studio for the iOS app. Canvas Updates Calendar Event Duplication…

Most of the changes in this release are background updates. There are however a few improvements to the inline doc viewer tool which allows you to annotate on student work. There have also been some updates to Panopto and the…