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InstructureCon18 brought, yet again, another exciting lineup of Product announcements. Some are ready for release, while others are preparing for release in the near future. It can be difficult to remember every exciting announcement, so we created this summary and resource post for you. Use the table of contents below to quickly navigate.
Canvas Analytics 2 saves teachers time by providing comprehensible at-a-glance data to help them quickly and easily identify at-risk students in their course. Information is offered through interactive and actionable dashboards that answer students’ most common performance and participation questions, providing information for proactive course correction.
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Removing marking bias is a difficult but necessary task to ensure fair marking practices for any institution. We have improved the moderating and anonymity features in Canvas to further reduce marking bias within courses.
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The Arc Public API places the power and ability in the hands of you to extend the value of Arc. This initial release will focus on media upload integrations.
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Arc Video Quizzing will provide educators a new and innovative way to create engaging and impactful learning experiences through video. Educators can create, deliver and assess/analyze/evaluate how well learners comprehend course video content in real time. With the Arc Video Player, learners experience intuitive and interactive learning integrated directly in their courses.
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Previously, course content items could only be duplicated individually. With the recent Modules update, instructors can duplicate entire modules. Please review the Canvas Release Notes and Canvas documentation to view the specifications and limitations of module duplication.
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Admins can manage the state and actions of API keys created for third-party tools. These changes allow admins to control direct access and specific API endpoints for a third-party tool associated with their institution.
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We made a commitment to the community to get to feature parity with Crocodoc.
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Gauge changes the face (and results) of the AMS landscape by understanding that just testing is not enough. You need testing that delivers actionable data that can then impact teaching and learning. You need assessment that improves student achievement. And it would be nice if it were a one-stop learning and assessment tool—scalable, easy-to-use, easily customizable, with a modern, intuitive user experience. Gauge is all of that and more.
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The Granular Permissions UI update will be the first of three phases. It will provide clarity for each permission, any dependencies, and help admins to better manage a subset of roles and permissions. It also provides the framework under which granularity can be added.
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The Rich Content Editor supports inserting an image by taking a photo or selecting an image from your device.
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Non-Scoring Rubrics increases qualitative feedback options in Canvas. This feature specifically focuses on Rubrics without points, custom Learning Mastery Gradebook levels, and Enhanced UI and UX of the Student Learning Mastery Gradebook.
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This work allows for the ability to bring Outcomes into Canvas in a bulk capacity via CSV and allow for institutions to more easily populate their accounts with Outcomes as well as their courses.
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Simplified account creation and login for Canvas Observers from Canvas Parent and Canvas web.
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Instructors can now create section-specific announcements in their courses. When creating an announcement, instructors can select to send the announcement to all sections, one section, or multiple sections.
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Instructors now have the ability to invite specific sections to view and participate in a discussion so it can be focused to the right audience.
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Canvas Student mobile app now reports page views to Canvas web.
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The Student Planner will help students prioritize what they need to do across courses, identify missed opportunities, and add their own items to their list of to-dos to help them manage their time in one place.
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A modern, elegant, and scalable testing engine that brings elegance and simplicity back into testing (if it was ever there to start). Quizzes.Next specifically focuses on delivery and reporting, question management and item banking, and simplified design and responsive user experience.
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Thank you for this wonderful summary!
They also announced they'll be releasing a Commons Previewer and a Speedgrader screen recorder sometime later:
https://community.canvaslms.com/community/ideas/blog/2018/03/23/khaki-2018-update
Many thanks for putting this summery together. Was there also an announcement about Badgr being added to the system? Curious to know how this will work.
Here's the link to the documentation: Badgr LTI
Thank you for this @Renee_Carney - very helpful!
@david_summervi1 have you seen this?
Thank you
Thanks so much for this! I had been looking for a summary of the product announcements and hadn't found it yet...
Great resource - thank you!!
I would like to thank the person or team who did the new Permissions interface. They really did it right. I hope to see their design sense to pervade Canvas!
Is there a Teacher To Do list like the one for students that is coming August 4th? This would be helpful for those of us who teach multiple courses per semester. Thanks for any help.
There is not ETA at this time, but the Teacher To Do list is the next phase in this priority path.
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