Feature Q&A: Canvas Deploy Notes (2024-01-31)

[InstContentTeam]

Looking to discuss these features from the 2024-01-31 Deploy Notes? Post a reply and start a conversation!

Interface Updates

• Admin Tools: Restore Deleted User [Delayed as of 2024-01-31]
• Authentication: SAML Manual Refresh
• Courses: Account Course Hyperlink
• Modules: Unpublish Module Only
• People: Additional Add Login Fields
• People: Deleted Users in Search Results [Delayed as of 2024-01-31]

Feature Options

• Enrollments: Temporary Enrollment Ending Workflow State
• Enrollments: Section Restrictions

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[olguin]

Hello,

With the unpublish module only, does this mean that the items in the module that are published will still be accessible/visible to students?

Thanks,
Debbie

[AllisonHowell]

Hi Debbie,

The items in the module that are published will remain accessible to students, but not from the Modules page. So if you "unpublish module only" with an assignment in the module, the student would not see the assignment from the Modules page or the module itself, but would be able to see it in the Assignments index or via direct link, if those are made accessible by the teacher.

Hope that helps!

[garydenne]

Hi Team, regarding the item,

• Authentication: SAML Manual Refresh

...what are some of the instances or scenarios of why you would want/need to refresh the metadata?

[audra_agnelly]

In our Beta, I do not see the new fields in the add new user interface. Maybe it's our account configuration, but to my knowledge we have no way to scope use accounts to specific subaccounts. Is that existing functionality or something that is being added with this update? Or, am I not seeing the Account field in beta because we do not have that configuration? We typically create accounts through our SIS but do create a handful of accounts manually every year.

[chriscas]

I love that additional fields are getting added to the UI for login creation, but the one I really want the most (being able to select a login provider) is still not in the UI.  If anyone from the team sees this comment, seems like it would be something really easy to add in since that modal window is being adjusted right now anyways and it would make small tasks way easier.  As it is right now, I have to either create an sis CSV file or use the API for this, which is doable but way more work for one-off situations.

-Chris

[mbmacdonald]

Hi, I am not seeing the "Temporary Enrollment Ending Workflow State" option. I had already enabled the feature a few days ago. I don't see the ending workflow state option. Do I just need to wait another few hours? Or is there something I need to do?

[Nancy_Webb_CCSF]

I love the temporary enrollments feature, and the ability to have the user given the inactive role at the end of their enrollment. Now that I've used it quite a bit, I realized that in the course's People, the enrollment has no indication that it's over and inactive.  Viewing the user account, I can see the temporary enrollment and its dates, but only admins can see that.  

It would be so helpful for teachers and students to know that that person no longer had access, or maybe that it hasn't started yet!  Might that be coming, or should I write up an Idea?  Definitely seeing inactive status would be super helpful.