Canvas Production Release Notes: April 19, 2025

Canvas operates on a monthly release cycle through which features are added or updated. Courseware Support posts highlights from Canvas’s production release notes, a link to these notes, and other relevant content to Canvas Info @ Penn a few days before the production release, which usually occurs on Saturdays. Please contact Courseware Support at canvas@pobox.upenn.edu if you have any questions about an upcoming production release.

April 19, 2025 Production Release Highlights

New Features:

Please note: the new Canvas Media Player is delayed as of 2025-04-18 until 2025-04-24

• Media Player with Improved Accessibility and Usability The media player playback experience has been improved with enhanced accessibility, adaptive streaming, and privacy features. This feature will gradually become available worldwide between April 19 and April 30. For details, please see the release notes.
  
  Please note – these are changes to the built-in media player in Canvas and do not effect Panopto/Class Recordings.

Other Updates:

Accessibility Updates Over the coming months, a series of updates will be introduced to enhance Canvas’s accessibility and intuitiveness, with a focus on improving usability for assistive technology users. For details, please see the release notes.

For a complete production release update, please see:

Canvas Production Release Notes: April 19, 2025.