Canvas operates on a three-week 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 the Canvas at Penn blog 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.
12/06/14 Production Release Highlights:
- Conversations: Users can filter messages in Conversations to view comments posted on assignment submissions. This feature restores user functionality of viewing submission comments in the Conversations Inbox.
- Correct Answers for Multiple Attempts in Quizzes: Instructors who create a quiz with more than one allowed attempt can restrict students from seeing the correct answers until after their last attempt. If an instructor allows students to view the correct answers, this additional option only appears if the “Allow Multiple Attempts” and “Allowed Attempts” check-boxes are both selected as quiz options.
- Crocodoc Previews in SpeedGrader: SpeedGrader provides instructors with updates about Crocodoc files. If a submission includes a file that can be rendered in Crocodoc, but the submission preview is not complete, SpeedGrader generates a message stating the document is still processing.
For a complete production release update, see:
12/06/14 Canvas Production Release Notes Featuring Inbox Submission Comments and Quiz Statistics
12.06.2014 New Feature Screencast from Instructure on Vimeo.
Last Updated: 16 Nov 2018