What's new?

Teachers can set a quiz so that subsequent attempts only show answers the student answered incorrectly.

Why is it valuable?

Students have the ability to reattempt only the questions which were answered incorrectly in a previous attempt and avoid changing a correctly answered question.

What's new?

A new setting is available at the account and course level, which allows users to restrict the view of quantitative data.

When this setting is enabled, students will no longer see traditional points and percentages. Focus is placed on showing qualitative feedback and the marks defined by the grading scheme.

Why is it valuable?

Institutions and teachers gain more flexibility around how they grade, with new letter-grade-only functionality, which focuses on the grading scheme definitions and qualitative feedback, while removing quantitative data from view.

What's new?

Previously, Canvas Pages were built with wiki-like functionality causing existing links to break when page titles were updated. Now educators can update page titles and links are redirected to new url.

Why is it valuable?

Canvas continues to be the LMS that makes complex tasks easier. By updating a single page title and links to that page automatically updated, the beauty of Canvas’ automated time-saving measures and simplicity remains at the fore of the educator experience.

What's new?

New Quizzes can be exported as a QTI Export Package

Why is it valuable?

Teachers can keep a copy of their course content including New Quizzes or take it with them to other positions.

What's new?

Quiz and Item Analysis generation triggering is now on demand and the report is more useful

Why is it valuable?

Educators can review questions and analyze quizzes faster which helps them make decisions

What's new?

Instructors will see a checkbox when creating a New Quiz to make the quiz anonymous. Parts of the Moderate page in New Quizzes will be hidden.

Why is it valuable?

Anonymous quizzes are important in an educational environment as they encourage students to participate freely, reducing anxiety and fostering a more inclusive learning atmosphere.

What's new?

New Quizzes are now included on the Alignment Summary available in Outcomes Management.

Why is it valuable?

Instructors will be able to easily view content alignments to each of the outcomes within their course, ensuring appropriate coverage in teaching required outcomes and providing students ample opportunities to demonstrate competency.

What's new?

Grading schemes that are point based instead of percentage based. Only UX/UI changes no changes to the background grade calculator.

Why is it valuable?

Provides value to schools that don't use percentages. Also provides more flexible grading schemes for competency based grading.

What's new?

Admin Analytics has it's own “Account Role” Canvas permission.

Why is it valuable?

Customers have more control over which users can access Admin Analytics.

What's new?

Admin Analytics will be translated into each account's default language.

Why is it valuable?

Institutions can now use Admin Analytics in local languages, expanding access to non-English speakers

What's new?

Institutions will be able to query their Catalog data from CD2 (Canvas Data 2), which goes beyond the borders of the Canvas LMS and represents another milestone of tapping into the data paradise of the Instructure product suite.

Why is it valuable?

Institutions can now access Catalog data from Canvas Data 2 to power their analytics solutions.

What's new?

Tags will be manageable via the API.

Why is it valuable?

Administrators will not have to swivel-seat between the Catalog UI and their system

What's new?

Improved search functionality.

Why is it valuable?

Enable learners to find relevant programs and courses more efficiently through enhanced administrative controls for tag creation, editing, and removal.

What's new?

Introduction of a new date-based trigger for badge awarding upon course completion.

Why is it valuable?

Accurate badge awarding promotes integrity, fairness, and effective credentialing.

What's new?

Institutions' Commons instance will be hosted from their legally respected regions.

Why is it valuable?

Institutions can ensure Canvas Commons meets regional compliance requirements, such as GDPR, easily improving navigation of complex regulatory environments.

What's new?

Instructors will access captions with human level of accuracy in Studio with the same level of easiness as requesting automatic captions. Administrators will be equipped with an approval dashboard to have an overall view on their faculty's caption orders. Administrators will be able to define roles with access to different services provided by Instructure's human captioning partners to control their spending.

Why is it valuable?

Teachers and instructional designers will get back significant time by outsourcing the process of correcting captions to our reliable partners.