Canvas Deploy Notes (2021-02-03)

Published: 01-22-2021

Fixed Bugs

  • Accessibility: Courses
  • Accessibility: User Profile
  • Assignments: Assignment Enhancements and Closed Captioning
  • Assignments: Assignment Enhancements and Observer Roles
  • Blueprint Courses: Blueprint Course Icon and Student View
  • Course Import: Date Shifting
  • Learning Mastery Gradebook: Outcomes and Post Policy
  • Modules: File Uploads and Course Export
  • Rich Content Editor: Editor Window Size
  • LTI Icon Size: Source Code Summary
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Upcoming Canvas Changes

Published: 01-19-2021
Periodically functionality will be added, changed, or removed in Canvas. Announcements are made in Release Notes on an ongoing basis. Other changes may not be directly related to Canvas, such as brow...
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Canvas Release Archive

Published: 01-19-2021
Canvas releases take place every third Saturday of the month and introduce new and updated features or adjusted user functionality into the production environment. For questions about Canvas releases...
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Canvas Deploy Notes (2021-01-20)

Published: 01-08-2021

Interface Updates

  • New Rich Content Editor: Multiple Link Removal- All Users

Fixed Bugs

  • Accessibility: Pages
  • Accessibility: New Rich Content Editor
  • API: Modules API
  • Assignments: Direct Share and Past Dates

Source Code Summary

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Canvas Release Notes (2021-01-16)

Published: 12-21-2020

Updated Features

  • Admin Tools: Bounced Emails Tab- Admin
  • New Rich Content Editor: New Rich Content Editor Feature Option Enforcement- All Users
  • Notifications: Push Notification Types End of Life- All Users
  • Permissions: Course Sections Granularity- Admin
  • Settings: Feature Option Management- All Users

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Canvas Deploy Notes (2021-01-06)

Published: 12-18-2020

Other Updates

  • Assignments: Direct Share Send to Self Support- All Users
  • Assignments: Index Page Options Menu Alignment- All Users

Fixed Bugs

  • Accessibility: Assignments
  • Accessibility: New Rich Content Editor
  • Accessibility: Rubrics
  • Assignments: Student Assignment Enhancements and Media Recordings
  • Assignments: Student Assignment Enhancements and Celebration User Setting
  • Course Import: SVG and Imported IMSCC Packages
  • Dashboard: Coming Up List and Ordering
  • New Rich Content Editor: Disabled Media Buttons
  • New Rich Content Editor: WMA, WAV, and WMV Files
  • Quizzes: Quiz Moderation and Student Visibility
  • Quizzes: Unauthenticated Users and Practice Quizzes

Source Code Summary

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Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-12-16)

Published: 12-04-2020
Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features, but they do not affect customer workflows. These deploys take place every two wee...
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Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-12-02)

Published: 12-04-2020
Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features, but they do not affect customer workflows. These deploys take place every two wee...
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Canvas Release Notes (2020-12-19)

Published: 11-23-2020
Upcoming Canvas Changes 2021-01-16 End-of-Life for Rich Content Editor—Enforcement of New Rich Content EditorDeprecation of Multiple Push notification types For more information, please see Upcoming ...
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Canvas Deploy Archive

Published: 11-06-2020
Canvas deploys take place every other week. For questions about deploy notes, please see the Canvas Deploy FAQ. Canvas Deploy Notes (2021-09-29) For fixed bugs and all Community content related to th...
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Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-11-18)

Published: 11-06-2020
Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features, but they do not affect customer workflows. These deploys take place every two wee...
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Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-11-04)

Published: 10-23-2020
Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features, but they do not affect customer workflows. These deploys take place every two wee...
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Canvas Release Notes (2020-11-21)

Published: 10-19-2020
In this Canvas release (November 21), the Admin Grade Change Activity log supports multi-parameter search fields. For all users, newly recorded media and uploaded media via the Upload/Record Media lin...
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Canvas Release Notes (2020-10-17)

Published: 10-13-2020
In this Canvas release (October 17), users can view a list of recently visited pages in the Global Navigation Menu. Additionally, the user-level and course-level notification pages have been updated f...
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Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-10-21)

Published: 10-09-2020
Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features, but they do not affect customer workflows. These deploys take place every two wee...
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Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-10-07)

Published: 09-25-2020
Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features, but they do not affect customer workflows. These deploys take place every two wee...
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Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-09-23)

Published: 09-11-2020
Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features, but they do not affect customer workflows. These deploys take place every two wee...
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Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-09-09)

Published: 08-28-2020
Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features, but they do not affect customer workflows. These deploys take place every two wee...
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Canvas Release Notes (2020-09-19)

Published: 08-24-2020
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...
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Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-08-26)

Published: 08-14-2020
Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features, but they do not affect customer workflows. These deploys take place every two wee...
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Canvas Release Notes (2020-08-15)

Published: 08-11-2020

In this Canvas release (August 15), the Account Navigation Menu includes a link to Global Announcements, where users can view current and recent announcements.

In courses, multiple pages can be deleted at one time in the Pages Index page. The Sections column can be hidden from students in the People page when more than one section exists in the course.

Feature Options

  • For institutions using the New SIS Integration Setting feature option, the Post to SIS button does not need to be removed for assignments in closed grading periods.
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Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-08-12)

Published: 07-31-2020
Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features, but they do not affect customer workflows. These deploys take place every two wee...
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Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-07-29)

Published: 07-17-2020
Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features, but they do not affect customer workflows. These deploys take place every two wee...
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Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-07-15)

Published: 07-06-2020
Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features, but they do not affect customer workflows. These deploys take place every two wee...
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Canvas Release Notes (2020-07-18)

Published: 06-22-2020
In this Canvas release (July 18), multiple previously introduced features are being enforced for all Canvas customers. Additionally, the code file that manages the Canvas supported browser banner will...
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Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-07-01)

Published: 06-19-2020
Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features, but they do not affect customer workflows. These deploys take place every two week...
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Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-06-17)

Published: 06-09-2020
The temporary adjustment for Saturday deploys has concluded. Effective immediately, Canvas will resume regularly scheduled deployments to the production environment during the week, with the next depl...
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Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-06-06)

Published: 05-27-2020
Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features, but they do not affect customer workflows. These deploys take place every two week...
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Canvas Release Notes (2020-06-20)

Published: 05-18-2020
Upcoming Canvas Changes2020-07-18Features previously introduced as part of a regular release date or as a Ready Release will become default for all institutions, unless otherwise indicated.For more in...
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Ready Release Notes (2020-05-16)

Published: 05-13-2020
The following features will be available in the production environment on 2020-05-16:CommonsCategory TemplatesUser Role: InstructorsOpt-in: NoCoursesCanvas Elementary ThemeUser Role: Instructors, Stud...
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