Impact Release Notes (2024-02-08)

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In this Impact release, new content for Canvas is available. Updated features are included for LTI Tools, Inline Editor message preview, and Walkthroughs.

Impact helps institutions improve technology adoption and evaluate the impact of educational technology, while helping faculty and students seamlessly navigate new platforms. Learn more about Impact by Instructure.

New Content

Canvas

Adoption Campaigns

Blog	EMEA adoption campaigns: Canvas Peer Reviews
Template Previews	Instructor: Importance of using peer review assignments Walkthrough: Create peer review assignments in a course Encourage your students to leave constructive feedback Student: How do I submit constructive feedback? Walkthrough: How to submit a peer review

Impact now offers a suite of Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) campaigns strategically crafted to boost the adoption of Canvas Feedback among Instructors and Students.

Walkthrough Campaigns

Template Preview

Manage confetti animations in Canvas (Students)

This walkthrough campaign aims to guide students through the process of managing confetti animations in Canvas, once it is enabled by the institution.

Google Apps/Google Assignments Monitors

Several monitors are available that track Google App and Google Assignments (LTI 1.3) activity more easily. These monitors can inform users of usage and are added to the Integrated Tools Report and assigned to any other corresponding reports. These monitors can also help admins migrate users to the LTI 1.3 version. A campaign is to be released shortly.

Note: Toggle on the LTI Google Drive and LTI Google (1.3) tool categories to access the tool adoption insights for the admin’s institute.

New articles added:

• How do I create a Google Assignments LTI 1.3 collaboration as a student?
• How do I submit a Google Assignments LTI 1.3 file as an assignment submission in Canvas?
• How do I create a Google Assignments LTI 1.3 collaboration as an instructor?
• How do I create an assignment using the Google Assignments LTI 1.3 as an instructor?

Monitor names:

• Add Google Drive (LTI 1.3) item to module
• Add Google Drive item to module
• Configure Google Assignments (LTI 1.3) link
• Configure Google Drive Cloud Assignment
• Google Apps collaboration page
• Google Assignments (LTI 1.3) group collaboration page
• Google Drive (LTI 1.3) collaborations page
• Google Drive (LTI 1.3) submission link
• Google Drive submission link
• Groups LTI collaborations: Google Apps page
• RCE All apps menu: Google Apps
• RCE All apps menu: Google Drive (LTI 1.3)
• RCE dropdown menu: Google Drive
• RCE dropdown menu: Google Drive (LTI 1.3)
• RCE Google Apps icon
• RCE Google Drive (LTI 1.3) icon

Monitors

The following monitor updates are implemented: 

• Contexts are replaced as a result of updates to context conditions where no rules were applicable presently, necessitating changes to the code
• New monitors are created to account for new page elements
• Monitors are deleted in response to updates in conditions

General:

Create/edit assignments page: limited attempts box	Updated context
Discussions topics page: search bar	Updated context
Groups page: + group set button	Updated context
People overview page: + group set button	Updated context
Gradebook page: assignment menu: SpeedGrader drop-down menu item	Removed monitor & context
Gradebook page: apply filters drop-down menu: create & manage filter presets	Removed monitor & context

Mastery Connect:

Delete tracker button	New monitor added
Individual tracker page: Convert as new button	New monitor added
Profile page: Edit profile drop-down menu item	Updated context
Course settings page: details tab: course grading scheme checkbox	Updated context
Course settings page: details tab: set grading scheme link	Updated context
Ally high score indicator	Updated context
Edit school information page: submit request button	Removed monitor & context
Create/Edit assessment page: Remediation field	Removed monitor & context

Updated Features

LTI Tools

Grouped LTI Tools Header

On the LTI Tools page, when no LTI tools are grouped, the Grouped LTI Tools header does not display.

LTI Groups

Users are unable to create or rename an LTI Group if there is already a group with the same name in existence.

Inline Editor

Message Preview

Message previews are displayed appropriately in the Inline Editor.

Walkthroughs

Message Visibility and Closing Walkthroughs

When users are in a walkthrough, the last step message is not visible after closing the walkthrough, as intended. To navigate to the next step, users can click on the element assigned to the step when a transition button is not displayed. Additionally, systray messages are not visible when pop-up messages are not displayed.