User Summary: Canvas Instructors (2021-07-21)
This document highlights default features in the current Canvas deploy for your user role.
The date of this document indicates when the included features will be available in the production environment. Unless otherwise indicated, features are already available in the beta environment.
For related bugs that may be relevant to your role, please see the 2021-07-21 Known Issues tag.
Settings
Feature Option Terminology
The term Feature Option has been renamed to Feature Preview. This change indicates that the features in the tab can be previewed in advance before they will be enabled for all institutions.
Some existing features will never be enforced and will be moved to Course Settings and updated in a future deploy.
User Settings
Text (SMS) Contact Method Update
The Text (SMS) tab has been updated to indicate that registering a mobile number is only supported for MFA notifications. This change is in preparation for removing SMS notifications on 31 July.
