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News and Announcements

Canvas Production Release Notes: June 17, 2023

14 Jun 20238 Jun 2023
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…
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Course Materials @ Penn Libraries – NEW for Summer 2023!

22 May 202319 May 2023
Penn Libraries has moved to a new course reserves management system. We think you’ll love many of the big improvements that have been made. These improvements allow instructors to: Have…
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Canvas Production Release Notes: May 20, 2023

16 May 2023
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…
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Canvas Production Release Notes: April 15, 2023

12 Apr 2023
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…
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Canvas Production Release Notes: March 18, 2023

15 Mar 202315 Mar 2023
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…
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Canvas Downtime 2/16

13 Feb 202310 Feb 2023
Canvas may be briefly unavailable between 1:05am and 3:05am Eastern on Thursday February 16th due to scheduled maintenance by the vendor. We only anticipate about ten minutes minute of downtime during this…
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‘Viewing grades and feedback’ page now available

10 Feb 2023
Our website now has an informative page for students to learn how to check their grades and view feedback on Canvas. The page can be accessed under the "Canvas for…
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Pope Tech Canvas Integration Pilot Spring 2023

2 Feb 20232 Feb 2023
Interested in piloting a new accessibility tool inside of Canvas? Join the Pope Tech Canvas Integration Pilot today! By enabling Pope Tech on your account, you get access to two…
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Canvas Production Release Notes: January 21, 2023

18 Jan 202317 Jan 2023
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…
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Turnitin and Gradescope (Code Similarity only) Unavailable 1/14 12pm – 8pm ET

9 Jan 202323 Dec 2022
Turnitin and Gradescope (Code Similarity only) will be unavailable on Saturday January 14th from 12pm until 8pm Eastern due to scheduled maintenance by the vendor. Only assignments using the Turnitin originality…

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  • Canvas Office Hours: 12PM
    Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 Time: 12:00pm - 12:30pm Presenter: Kate Rojas Location: Online Library: Online
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    Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 Time: 12:30pm - 1:00pm Presenter: Kate Rojas Location: Online Library: Online
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    Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 Time: 1:00pm - 1:30pm Presenter: Kate Rojas Location: Online Library: Online
  • Canvas Office Hours: 1:30PM
    Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 Time: 1:30pm - 2:00pm Presenter: Kate Rojas Location: Online Library: Online
  • Canvas Office Hours: 2PM
    Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 Time: 2:00pm - 2:30pm Presenter: Kate Rojas Location: Online Library: Online
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    Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 Time: 2:30pm - 3:00pm Presenter: Kate Rojas Location: Online Library: Online

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