Canvas Deploy Notes (2024-12-04)

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Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in the title of this document. Institutions are responsible for conducting thorough evaluations of their custom CSS/JS with each release and deploy to assess potential impacts.

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Table of Contents

• Interface Updates
• Announcements
• Added Option
• Discussions
• Peer Review Text Update
• Groups
• Course Name Added to Group Tray
• Rubrics
• Leaving Editor Warning
• Other Updates
• External Tools
• Updating the mediaType for launches from New Quizzes items
• User Settings
• InstUI Update

Interface Updates

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Announcements

Added Option

Instructor

Affected Feature Areas	Announcements
Account Setting to Enable	None
Permissions	Inherent to user role
Related Ideas

Summary

On the Announcement Edit page, the Participants must respond to the topic before viewing other replies checkbox is added.

Change Benefit

This feature encourages independent thinking and engagement. By requiring participants to respond before seeing others' replies, it promotes original contributions and prevents bias from reading peers' responses first.

Feature Workflow

Announcements Participants Must Respond to the Topic before Viewing Other Replies Checkbox

The Participants must respond to the topic before viewing other replies checkbox is available when instructors choose to allow participants to comment.

Discussions

Peer Review Text Update

Instructor

Affected Feature Areas	Graded Discussions
Account Setting to Enable	None
Permissions	Discussions-create
Related Ideas	[Discussions] Rename the Reviews Due field in Peer Reviews

Summary

When assigning automatic peer reviews in a Discussion, the date label is changed to Assign Reviews, replacing the previous label, Reviews Due.

Change Benefit

This update ensures consistent language between peer-reviewed assignments and peer-reviewed discussions.

Feature Workflow

Peer Review Assign Reviews Text Update

When automatically assigning peer reviews, the date label is changed to Assign Reviews.

Groups

Course Name Added to Group Tray

Student

Affected Feature Areas	Groups
Account Setting to Enable	None
Permissions	Inherent to User Role
Related Ideas

Summary

In the Group Tray, groups display the associated course name.

Change Benefit

This feature helps users quickly identify each group’s course, reducing confusion and improving navigation.

Feature Workflow

Groups Course Name Added to Group Tray

In the Group Tray, students can view a group's course information.

Rubrics

Leaving Editor Warning

Instructor

Affected Feature Areas	Rubrics
Account Setting to Enable	None
Permissions	Inherent to user Role
Related Ideas	[Rubrics] Assignment Rubric auto-save

Summary

When exiting the Rubric Edit page, instructors see a warning indicating that unsaved work will be lost.

Change Benefit

This update helps prevent instructors from accidentally losing their work by alerting them to save changes before leaving the Rubric Editor page. This ensures that time and effort spent on editing rubrics aren't unintentionally lost.

Feature Workflow

Save Changes to Rubric Warning Modal

A Warning modal displays when exiting the Rubric Edit page.

Other Updates

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External Tools

Updating the mediaType for launches from New Quizzes items

Admin

Beta Environment Availability	2024-11-18
Production Environment Availability	2024-12-08
Affects User Interface	No
Affected Feature Areas	External Tools
Related Ideas	None

Summary

This update affects LTI tools that rely on the "mediaType" in the placements for module_menu, quiz_menu, and assignment_menu. The "mediaType" for New Quizzes launches is changing from:

Old value: "mediaType":"application/vnd.instructure.api.content-exports.assignment"

New value: "mediaType":"application/vnd.instructure.api.content-exports.quizzesnext"

Change Benefit

This update helps tools distinguish between regular assignments/old quizzes and New Quizzes.

User Settings

InstUI Update

All Users

Affects User Interface	Yes
Affected Feature Areas	User Setting Modals
Related Ideas	None

Summary

In User Settings, several modals are updated to align with the latest version of InstUI, Instructure's internal design language. The updated modals include:

• Add new email address modal
• Confirm email address modal
• Authorize Google Drive, Skype, Diigo modals
• Access Token Details modal
• New Access Token modal

Note: Users may notice some interface updates that do not affect functionality. Institutions with Custom JS and CSS should verify any changes.

Change Benefit

This update improves user interface infrastructure, allowing Canvas development teams to leverage the latest design system.