In this Canvas release (September 19), New Analytics provides downloadable CSV files for missing assignments, late assignments, excused assignments, the class roster, and course activity data.
For API users, TLS Protocols 1.0 and 1.1 are not supported in Canvas. Institutions must update to TLS 1.2 or switch their API URLs to a legacy endpoint.
- New Features
- New Analytics
- CSV Reports
- Platform/Integration
- Browsers
- TLS Protocol Changes
- Change Log
- Release Resources
New Analytics
CSV Reports
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Affected Canvas Areas |
New Analytics |
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Beta/Test Environment Support |
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Affects User Interface |
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Affected User Roles |
Instructors |
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Feature Video |
Summary
New Analytics provides downloadable CSV files for missing assignments, late assignments, excused assignments, the class roster, and course activity data. Using APIs, all reports provide real-time data except for the Course Activity report, which includes data that may be delayed up to 24 hours. Additionally, all report data is verified against user permissions.
Change Benefit
This change provides instructors with table visualizations of essential course information via Canvas APIs into a consumable format.
Affected User Roles
Instructors
The New Analytics page includes a Reports tab. Filtered content for each report can be downloaded and exported as a CSV format.
The Run Report button displays a filter for the report type. Reports can be filtered by assignment, section, and student.
When a filter is selected, all results for the filter display automatically in the second drop-down menu. For instance if the Section Name filter were to be selected, and the course included Section A, Section B, and Section C, all three sections would display as options to be selected from the menu.
Report Types
New Analytics Reports include five types: missing assignments, late assignments, excused assignments, the class roster, and course activity. All report data is verified against user permissions, and all IDs in the reports are Canvas-assigned IDs.
Missing Assignments—displays a list of assignments that have not been submitted by one or more students. Data includes Student Name, Student ID, Course Name, Course ID, Section Name, Assignment Name, Points Possible, Due Date, and Unlocked Date.
Late Assignments—displays assignments that have been submitted late for one or more students. Data includes Student Name, Student ID, Course Name, Course ID, Section Name, Assignment Name, Points Possible, Due Date, and Unlocked Date.
Excused Assignments—displays a list of assignments that have been excused in the course for one or more students. Data includes Student Name, Student ID, Course Name, Course ID, Section Name, Assignment Name, Points Possible, Due Date, and Unlocked Date.
Class Roster—displays a list of students enrolled in the course or section with student contact information. Based on user permissions, data may include Student Name, Student ID, and Email address.
Course Activity—displays a list of daily user interactions in course resources, where each report entry captures a summary of user views and participations. The calendar filter only accommodates up to the past 14 days. Data includes User ID, User Name, Section ID, Section Name, Course ID, Course Name, Content ID, Content Type, Content Name, Times Viewed, Times Participated, First Viewed Date, and Last Viewed Date.
The account time zone is applied to facilitate daily views and participation aggregates. If no time zone is set for the account, the report will use the default of Mountain Time (-07/-06 UTC).
Note: Refreshed data in the Course Activity report may be delayed up to 40 hours.
Browsers
TLS Protocol Changes
Summary
TLS Protocols 1.0 and 1.1 are not supported in Canvas. Institutions must update to TLS 1.2 by 19 September or switch their API URLs to a legacy endpoint.
TLS 1.0 and 1.1 have already been removed from both the Test and Beta environments. Institutions can use their Test or Beta Canvas URLs to test using TLS 1.2.
Change Benefit
This change ensures all customers are using the highest encryption protocols to protect user interactions with Canvas. TLS 1.0 and 1.1 protocols support usage of ciphers that do not meet modern security standards.
Affected User Roles & Behaviors
Admins
Users who rely on browsers to interact with Canvas must update their TLS protocol to 1.2, as support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will no longer be available. Users should ensure they are using the latest version of each supported Canvas browser. Users may be affected if applications are parsing page content or using a script against Canvas APIs. Background regarding these changes can be found in Deprecating TLS 1.0 & 1.1.
Institutions that are not able to transition to TLS 1.2 by 19 September should update their API URL to a legacy endpoint, which is created by adding legacyapi after the institution name (e.g. institution-name.legacyapi.instructure.com). Legacy endpoints will be supported until 17 July 2021.
Note: Legacy URLs are only available for the production environment.
For additional questions about this change, please see Customer TLS Protocols FAQ.
User Summaries
Release features are summarized for individual roles in the User Summaries page.
Canvas Chat
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New Feature Screencast
View a screencast of all the updates included in this release in the New Feature Screencast page.
tl;dr Podcast & Blogs
Features in this release may be included in product blogs and our product podcast, the Canvas tl;dr. For related links, check the Canvas Release Archive for this release date.
Feature Enhancements
The release notes indicate available functionality for a feature. If you want to see any future development planned for any features included in these notes, please visit the Roadmap. Have an idea you don't see prioritized in the next three months? Visit the Idea Conversations page.
Feature Support
All items listed in the release notes are immediately available for testing in the Canvas beta environment, unless otherwise indicated. If functionality in the beta environment does not match the functionality shown in the release notes, please submit a support case through your institution's preferred method as shown in your Global Navigation Help Menu. The Canvas Support Team can help escalate behaviors that may need to be resolved before they are deployed to the production environment, which takes place on the date of these release notes. When submitting a case, please indicate that the behavior is occurring in the beta environment.
