Canvas@UD Newsletter | February 2025 edition

In this edition, see what’s new in Canvas for the spring 2025 semester at UD.

Spring 2025 Canvas Course Sites Available Starting December 10

If you are teaching in the Spring 2025 term, please check for Canvas course sites in the Unpublished section of your Canvas Dashboard starting Tuesday, December 10, 2024. Details to review your sites and request any changes can be found in Canvas Course Information...

Canvas Release Notes – July 20, 2024

The July 20 release enforced the Discussions Redesign and introduced new assignment differentiation capabilities for tools such as Modules and Pages. The “Assign To” workflow has been redesigned for all tools with assignment capability.

Canvas Discussions Redesign Enforced Starting 2024 Summer

Canvas Discussions Redesign is now enabled in all course sites to prepare for enforcement on July 20, 2024.

Global Accessibility Awareness Day – What you can do!

May 16, 2024, marks the 13th anniversary of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). To help celebrate and raise awareness, we are asking you to fix at least one piece of digital content using Ally in Canvas.

CANVAS@UD NEWS

Canvas Release Notes – January 18, 2025

A Canvas production update will occur on Saturday, January 18, 2025. Check out the full release notes.  Production updates occur on third Saturday of each month, and the next planned update is Saturday, February 15, 2025.  Updates in the current release include:...

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Canvas Release Notes – November 16, 2024

A Canvas production update will occur on Saturday, November 16, 2024.  Check out the full release notes.  Production updates occur on third Saturday of each month, and the next planned update is Saturday, January 18, 2025.  The December 21, 2024,  production release,...

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Canvas Release Notes – October 19, 2024

A Canvas production update will occur on Saturday, October 19, 2024.  Check out the full release notes.  Production updates occur on third Saturday of each month, and the next planned update is Saturday, November 16, 2024.  Updates in the current release include New...

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Canvas@UD Updates – Spring 2025

What’s new in Canvas? There are several new feature previews and interface changes enabled in January including discussion summaries and rubric enhancements. Learn how to use them in your course.

Canvas Discussions Checkpoints coming in January

Discussions Checkpoints is a much awaited add-on feature to the Discussions Redesign.  They are not required, but their availability will change the discussion settings and their use may update the language and workflow presentation for student replies.  The feature...

Canvas@UD Updates – Summer 2024

Canvas regularly releases updates to their system on the third Saturday of each month and admins update the Canvas@UD environment over the summer months when usage is lower. Several changes have occurred since wrapping up your spring courses.  If you have not accessed...

LMS Guidelines Updates for Enrollment and Non-Catalog Sites

Starting June 1, 2024, two policies outlined in the LMS Guidelines, Practices and Procedures document will be updated. Enrollment of Additional Faculty or Administrative Personnel:  Requests submitted by the instructor of record, Dean, or Department Chair to enroll...

Gradescope Integration into Canvas Pilot

IT-ATS is piloting Gradescope, an online grading tool, for evaluation during the 2023-2024 academic year.  Gradescope will be available to all UD instructors and integrated into Canvas.  Integration into Canvas, training sessions and support documentation are in...