Canvas is updated every third Saturday with new features and fixes. The Macomb CTL posts highlights from the production release notes and related content to our blog at emacomb.com. Please contact us at ctlsupport@macomb.edu if you have any questions about Canvas releases.
February 16 Release
Please view the New Feature Screencast for a demonstration of the updates in this release:
New Gradebook: Override Final Grade
NOTE: This update only applies for instructors who have opted into the New Gradebook. By the end of 2019, the New Gradebook will replace the existing Gradebook. We’ll continue to update you as the deployment timeframe is announced.
Instructors using the New Gradebook now have the option to manually override the final grade as caculated by Canvas. To activate, check the Allow Override box on the Advanced tab of the Gradebook Settings screen (gear in upper right corner).
This will add an Override column after the Final Grade (Total) column.
Instructors may then enter a letter grade to override the Total grade. The letter grade will reflect the lower percentage of the range in your grading scheme.
Students will not know their final grade has been overridden.
Quizzes.Next: Reopen Student Assessment
NOTE: This update only applies for institutions who have opted into the Quizzes.Next LTI. In the long term, Quizzes.Next will become the new standard Quiz engine for Canvas.
Instructors are now able to manually reopen quiz attempts for students, with the quiz returning to the last question where the student was active.
This is an improvement over the current Quizzes behavior, which allows the instructor to Moderate and give additional attempts, but each new attempt requires the student to begin the quiz again, losing their previous work.
Rich Content Editor: Thumbnail Images Restored
When using the Rich Content Editor to insert an image into a Canvas page from your Canvas files (i.e., the Canvas tab for Image Source), you will now see image thumbnails in your folder structure:
Thumbnails greatly simplify the process of finding a desired image. The thumbnail feature was temporarily down after a previous Rich Content Editor update.
The complete production release notes for this release are available on the Canvas LMS Community.
The next Canvas release will be deployed Saturday, March 9, with release notes available Monday, February 25.
Images on this page are from the Canvas Guides, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Agreement.
January 26 Canvas Release
Canvas is updated every third Saturday with new features and fixes. The Macomb CTL posts highlights from the production release notes and related content to our blog at emacomb.com. Please contact us at ctlsupport@macomb.edu if you have any questions about Canvas releases.
January 26 Release
Please view the New Feature Screencast for a demonstration of the updates in this release:
Rubric Comments Enhancement
Instructors may now add comments to rubric criteria directly from SpeedGrader.
This update will allow instructors to edit their rubric comments while using the same rubric to grade assignments in SpeedGrader.
Note that this update refers to comments on the rubric criteria, not comments on the student’s assignment.
Learning Outcome Mastery
NOTE: This update only applies for instructors and students who have opted into the Learning Mastery Gradebook. Please contact us at ctlsupport@macomb.edu if you’d like to test this feature.
The total score for a particular learning outcome in a course will now be displayed if at least one of the assignments does not have hidden point values.
For example, because all asignments’ point values are hidden in the rubric for Week 7 Journal, you do not see X /5 – only Mastered or Not Mastered.
This change will make it easier to view a student’s progress towards mastery when at least one of the outcome’s assignments shows a point value.
Moderated Grading: Assignments Editable by Viewer
NOTE: The Moderated Grading feature is not yet active at the Macomb institutional level. Please contact us at ctlsupport@macomb.edu if you’d like to test this feature.
If your assignment uses Moderated Grading, any grader who is able to view the Grade Summary page will now able to edit the assignment.
This update will allow graders who have not been designated by the instructor as the final grader to edit assignments. This will simplify the process for nonfinal and noninstructor graders to modify assignment details throughout the course.
The complete production release notes for this release are available on the Canvas LMS Community.
The next Canvas release will be deployed Saturday, February 16, with release notes available Monday, February 4.
Images on this page are from the Canvas Guides, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Agreement.
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