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Canvas Production Release Notes (2017-01-28)

Canvas Production Release Notes (2017-01-28)

In this production release (January 28), admins can more easily locate the Default Term when searching for courses and view the terms menu updates in account report configurations. For SIS institutions, the PowerSchool integration is now available as an LTI tool. Additionally, the Authentication page has a small change with the Authentication button in the sidebar.

In courses, course imports support SCORM content. Behavior clarifications have also been updated in MasteryPaths, Grading Periods, Pages, and Quizzes functionality.

In the Dashboard, No Submission and On Paper assignments don’t display in the To Do list past their due date, and white is not accepted as a course background color. In User Navigation, the Profiles link only displays for institutions that have enabled the Profiles feature. Various icons have also been updated in the Canvas interface.

Production release notes also include fixed bugs.

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Canvas New Feature Screencast (2017-01-28)

Next release schedule

  • Beta release and notes: February 6
  • Production release notes: February 13
  • Production release and documentation: February 18

Production release notes indicate Canvas updates that will be included with Saturday’s release and are subject to change. New features may differ from those available in your beta environment. Learn more about the Canvas Release Schedule.

Account-level features are not available in Free-for-Teacher accounts.

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Accounts

Default Term in Term List

The Terms drop-down menu places the Default Term at the top of the list, regardless of set term dates. This change helps admins always locate the Default Term.

At the account level, the Terms menu is updated in the following locations:

  • Courses page sidebar (Course Filtering section) and Add New Course window (via the + New Course button)
  • Users page sidebar (Choose Term section)

Reports Provisioning Report
In the Account Settings Reports tab, the Provisioning report has added three additional data fields to the Groups CSV and Group Categories CSV: context ID, content type, and group category ID.

Reports Term List Order

In the Account Settings Reports tab, all report configurations require a term. The Terms report configuration matches the Terms list grouping in other account areas and displays terms by Default Term, followed by active, future, and past terms.

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Assignments

Close Dates and Assignment Name

This update applies to institutions using the Multiple Grading Periods feature option, which may be enabled for an entire account or on a course-by-course basis.

If an assignment is in a closed grading period, instructors who edit the assignment can only view the assignment name in a read-only state. Assignment names in closed grading periods cannot be edited.

Grading period restrictions only apply to instructors; they do not apply to admins.

New Group Set Window

When instructors create a group assignment and create a new group set, the group creation window matches the options located in the People page when creating groups.

Most significantly, the structure supports randomly assigning students to a group by section. This feature aligns the group set menu found in the People page and allows instructors to specifically limit groups to users within a specific section. Section assignments also support instructors in large or cross-listed courses.

When this option is selected, students are only grouped together with students from their own section. The section designation is available as part of a new group set page when selecting the option to split students into a specific number of groups.

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Calendar

Recurring Event Occurrence Clarification

This update applies to institutions using the Recurring Calendar Events feature option, which may be enabled for an entire account or on a course-by-course basis.

When an instructor enables recurring events for a course, the repeat text field has been changed to For __ additional occurrences. This text change helps clarify how many additional occurrences will be created from the initial event. For example, setting the additional occurrences to three means the calendar item will create the event for the first date and then three additional occurrences of the event, creating a total of four events.

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Course Imports

SCORM Content

This update applies to institutions using the SCORM LTI. Admins can enable SCORM by contacting their Canvas Customer Success Manager.

SCORM content is included when copying or exporting a Canvas course. This feature helps instructors copy SCORM content seamlessly within Canvas. All SCORM packages display as they were created within the previous course.

Because of the LTI account configurations for SCORM, courses with SCORM content should only be copied within accounts that use the same key and secret configuration.

Note: SCORM is not available for testing in the beta environment.

Dashboard

To Do List and Past Assignments

In the student Dashboard, No Submission and Not Graded assignments display in the To Do list until their due date. After the due date, these assignments no longer display in the To Do list.

White Course Card Background Color

When users enter a custom background color, white is not accepted as a hex value. This change helps improve accessibility and includes any code variation of white. If the entered hex value displays a warning icon, the value is not accepted as a background color.

Dashboard course color limitations also apply in the Calendar, which can also be used to set a course color.

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Modules

MasteryPaths Assignment Descriptions

This update applies to institutions using the MasteryPaths feature option, which may be enabled for an entire account or on a course-by-course basis.

When instructors create Mastery Paths and allow students to choose their assignment path, students can view the entire description for each assignment. This change helps students understand what is required for each assignment and select their assignment path accordingly. The description content is content created for the assignment in the Rich Content Editor.

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Pages

Instructor Course Home Page Announcements Display

When a course home page is set to display the pages Front Page, and an instructor has chosen to display announcements as part of the course home page in Course Settings, delayed announcements do not display to instructors. When instructors view the course home page, the announcement display is also the same view that their students will see in the home page. Delayed announcements do not display until the date set for each announcement.

This feature resolves a fixed bug in Canvas.

When an instructor created an announcement and delayed the date of the posting, instructors were able to view delayed announcements as part of the course home page, which created a different from what they students saw in the course. Canvas code has been updated to only display delayed announcements in the course home page on the date set for each announcement.

Quizzes

Student Quiz Responses Clarification

When an instructor retains the default quiz option to let students see their quiz responses, the checkbox explanation text mentions that incorrect questions are included in student feedback. This text change helps clarify the functionality of the checkbox in that quiz responses include both the student’s responses and incorrect questions.

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SIS

PowerSchool LTI

This update applies to institutions using PowerSchool as a student information system (SIS). Admins can enable this LTI by contacting their Canvas Customer Success Manager.

The PowerSchool integration is now available as an LTI tool that improves error handling with the Gradebook and improves the PowerSchool interface. The LTI tool does not change the way Canvas passes back grades to PowerSchool.

Admins can request to have their PowerSchool integration reconfigured to the LTI tool by contacting their Canvas Customer Success Manager.

  • The PowerSchool LTI also includes the following enhancements:
    Instructors can view all assignments that are included to be posted to the institution’s SIS, along with the assignment status. If an assignment should not be sent to PowerSchool, the instructor can edit the assignment or view the Assignment Index Page and remove the assignment from being sent to PowerSchool.
  • Instructors have full control with assignments set in grading periods. The LTI tool does not set any restrictions for data synchronization, so grades can be sent to PowerSchool even if an assignment is in a closed grading period.
    When instructors exclude an assignment from posting to PowerSchool, the LTI requires that the instructor confirms to exclude the assignment.

Please note that the LTI tool does not communicate student-based assignments to PowerSchool. Any assignments specified for an individual student will not be noted as an assignment error. Although the assignment will display as ready to post, the assignment will not be sent to the PowerSchool gradebook.

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User Navigation

Profiles Link

This update applies to institutions using the Profiles account feature. Admins can enable Profiles by contacting their Canvas Customer Success Manager.

The User Navigation Menu only displays the Profiles link to users whose institutions have enabled the Profiles feature. This change helps minimize confusion as to whether or not users have access to Profiles. The Profiles feature allows users to create a user profile shown throughout Canvas.

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Authentication

Remove All Authentication Button

The Remove All Authentication button has been moved to the bottom of the Authentication sidebar. Additionally, to help emphasize the potential danger of admins using the button, the button style has been changed to red to match of other danger buttons that may display in Canvas.

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User Interface

Canvas Icon Updates

The following icons have been updated in Canvas:

  • Unpublished course icon (shown in the account Courses page and in any unpublished courses listed as an enrollment in an account-level user’s details page)
  • Mute icon (shown in student Grades and the Gradebook)
  • Yellow discussion icon (shown in Canvas error pages)
  • Yellow lock icon (shown to students when they try to view a locked file in a page or assignment; also shown in pages or assignments associated with a locked module)
  • Peer review assignment icons (shown in the peer review page where instructors manually or automatically assign peer reviews)
  • Delete icon in User Settings page (shown in the list of a user’s approved integrations)
  • Profile picture icons (shown to admins in profile picture management page)
  • Profiles user sidebar icons (shown in the Profiles page when the Profiles feature is enabled)
  • Bookmark icons (shown in question banks)
  • SIS sync icon (shown in the Assignments and Quizzes pages when courses use student information system configurations)

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API

For details about using Canvas APIs, please see the Canvas API Policy page.

External Tools API

By default, Canvas handles LTI launch URLs with query parameters by including the query parameters in the URL and the post body. In the External Tools API, creating an external tool includes the oauth_compliant parameter, which allows a tool provider or admin to configure a tool (via XML or API) without duplicating query parameters in the POST body without adversely affecting the other tools that are installed.

To enable this feature via XML a tool can be installed with an XML node for <lticm:property name="oauth_compliant"> true </lticm:property> in tool the configuration XML as a direct child of the <blti:extensions platform="canvas.instructure.com"> node.

OAuth2
The OAuth2 API includes clarification that developer keys issued after October 2015 generate tokens with a 1 hour expiration.

  Fixed Bugs

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Accessibility

Account Settings
In the Feature Options tab, the feature option buttons displays a color contrast of 3:1 for the default Canvas interface and 4.5:1 for high contrast profiles.

When users select the “skip to content” option and view the Apps tab, users can toggle the View App Configuration button.

Assignments
When users create a new group assignment, creating a new group set does not contain a series of clickable elements before creating a category.

Grades
The space bar toggles an Incomplete/Complete grade. After the grade change, focus is retained in the Gradebook cell.

In the Gradebook CSV file upload page, the page includes a heading.

What-If course grades include notifications and description information for screen readers.

In the account-level Grading Scheme tab, names and dates do not have page focus when users tab through input elements.

Pages
The field that allows specific users to edit a page includes a label for screen readers.

SpeedGrader
When a quiz is auto-graded, the grade field is more opaque for easier visibility.

In the comments field, each delete and submit button includes text for screen readers.

API
OAuth2 Endpoints
In the OAuth2 Endpoints documentation, the scope parameter has been clarified to define returning only the current Canvas user’s identity.

Explanation: When a user requested the scope parameter, the parameter included inaccurate information for developers. Canvas code has been updated to clarify documentation for the scope parameter.


Conversations

Account Groups
Users can view sent messages to other users in account-level groups.

Explanation: When a user attempted to send a message to a member of an account group, the message sent successfully. However, attempting to view the message in the user’s Sent folder generated an error message. Canvas code has been updated to confirm reply permissions for account group members and view sent messages to account-level groups.

Conversations Scroll Bar
Users can search for recipients and view full messages in Conversations.

Explanation: When a user opened Conversations, the page included a horizontal scroll bar. Users could not view entire messages without having to scroll horizontally across the page. Canvas code has been updated to correct page styling and remove the scroll bar.

Course Imports
IMSCC Imports and Assignment Rubrics
If a rubric is used for grading but the assignment total varies from the rubric total, exporting the assignment in an IMSCC export package retains both individual totals.

Explanation: When a rubric was used for grading but the assignment total varied from the rubric total, after the assignment was exported as an IMSCC import package and imported into a new course, the assignment’s point total was updated to match the rubric point total. Canvas code has been updated to retain the total for both the rubric and the assignment in an IMSCC export.

Modules
Canvas restores any previously Modules content in a course import.

Explanation: When a user imported content from a module, deleted the module, and later re-imported the same module that was previously deleted, all deleted module content was not restored to the course except for the external links and text headers. Canvas code has been updated to restore all content items within a previously deleted module.

Schoology Quizzes

Canvas imports Schoology quiz questions and retains all answers.

Explanation: When a Schoology quiz was imported into a course, the quiz questions were imported but the answers were not retained. Canvas code has been updated to adjust imports for quiz questions.

Courses
Course Filtering Sidebar
In the account-level Courses page, all the course filtering options can be used together to locate a course.

Explanation: When an admin used the Find a Course search field to locate a course and then used the Sort menu to sort the search results, the courses list did not change. Canvas code has been updated to use the search and sort fields together.

Dashboard
Sidebar Quiz Grading Count
For instructors, the Dashboard sidebar displays all quizzes that require grading.

Explanation: When an instructor viewed the To Do list or Coming Up sidebar, some graded quizzes were not displaying in the sidebar as needing to be graded if the quiz was partially graded. Canvas code has been updated to count quiz submissions made by enrolled users in a pending grading state.

External Apps
External Apps and Course Navigation
External LTI tools open in a new window if they are targeted to a new window.

Explanation: When a user set an External LTI tool in the Course Navigation Menu to open in a new window, and the tool is later moved in the Course Navigation Menu, the tool would no longer open in a new window. Canvas code has been updated to retain window targets for Course Navigation links reordered in the menu.

Grades
Grading Period End Dates
Assignments with the exact date and time as a grading period end date are placed within the grading period with the end date.

Explanation: When an instructor created an assignment with the exact time and date as a grading period end date, the assignment was not added to any grading period and was only visible by viewing all grading periods. Canvas code has been updated to include assignments with dates and times equal to or before the grading period end date.

What-If Scores and Muted Assignments

When students view their grades, What-If Scores entered for muted assignments are calculated in the total grade.

Explanation: When a student viewed the Grades page and entered a What-If Score for a muted assignment, the entered value wasn’t calculated in the total grade. Canvas code has been updated to calculate muted grades in What-If Score calculations.

Groups

Files and Usage Rights
Group files are automatically published in a course. For courses that require files to set usage rights, files are unpublished until a usage right is set.

Explanation: In Group files, files do not display publish icons except for when a course required usage rights. When files did not include a usage right, the file was unavailable to users in the group. Canvas code has been updated to remove published icons from files with usage rights. Files are unpublished until a usage right is set.

Notifications
Account Languages
When an admin sets an account language to something other than English, the account language does not affect user notifications.

Explanation: When an admin set a language for an account to something other than English, the language changed all user language settings to the system default, which caused Canvas notifications to be sent in English rather than the account standard. Canvas code has been updated to retain user language context for account notifications.

Page Update Notifications
Content page update notifications do not truncate the body of the page.

Explanation: When an instructor created an update to a page, and users had notifications enabled for content updates, the page notification would truncate the body of the page. Canvas code has been updated to remove truncation from content page update notifications.

Pages
Course Visibility and File Previews
Courses with Institution visibility generate media file previews that have been linked using the content selector.

Explanation: When an instructor linked a media file from the content selector, if the course was set for Institution visibility, the media file did not generate a preview and required non-enrolled authenticated users to download the file. Canvas code has been updated to display file previews in courses with Institution visibility.

Course Visibility and Modules
Courses with Institution visibility allow users to view Modules navigation in content pages.

Explanation: When a course was set for Institution visibility, non-enrolled authenticated users were not able to view Modules navigation in content pages. Canvas code has been updated to display Modules navigation in courses with Institution visibility.

Instructor Course Home Page Announcements Display
When a course home page is set to display the pages Front Page, and an instructor has chosen to display announcements as part of the course home page in Course Settings, delayed announcements do not display to instructors.

Explanation: When an instructor created an announcement and delayed the date of the posting, instructors were able to view delayed announcements as part of the course home page, which created a different from what they students saw in the course. Canvas code has been updated to only display delayed announcements in the course home page on the date set for each announcement.

Permissions

View Grades and SpeedGrader Links
The View Grades permission allows users to view a link to SpeedGrader from an assignment.

Explanation: When a user was given permission to View Grades but not Edit Grades, assignment sidebars did not show the SpeedGrader link though the user could still access SpeedGrader through other direct links. Canvas code has been updated to display the SpeedGrader link in assignment sidebars to users with the View Grades permission.

Rich Content Editor
Content Selector and Linked Content
When a user edits an announcement, the content selector Links tab only displays items from announcements in the Announcements section.

Explanation: When a user edited an announcement and wanted to link content from the content selector, the Links tab displayed items from announcements in the Discussions section. Canvas code has been updated to separate content items from announcements and discussions in the content sidebar.

Require Usage Rights and File Uploads
When uploading a new file from the content selector, if usage rights are required for files, the file link displays in the content page.

Explanation: When an instructor uploaded a new file from the content selector, if usage rights were required for the file, the file uploaded successfully but the link in the content page was broken. Canvas code has been updated to retain linked files associated with usage rights.

SIS
PowerSchool Section Due Dates
Assignments with section-specific due dates do not show as having no due date in PowerSchool.

Explanation: When an instructor using PowerSchool posted grades in the Gradebook, PowerSchool displayed section-specific due dates as having no due date. Canvas code has been updated to not show section-specific due dates as having no due date. This fix was deployed to the production environment on January 20.

SpeedGrader

Cloud Assignments and Crocodoc
Cloud assignments created in the Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps LTIs are displayed like regular assignment submissions in SpeedGrader and support Crocodoc annotations.

Explanation: When an instructor created a cloud assignment in the Microsoft Office 365 or Google Apps LTI, student submissions were being submitted as PDFs and were not able to be rendered by Crocodoc. Canvas code has been updated to support cloud assignments in Crocodoc like other supported submission types.

Large Image Files
Large image files displayed in SpeedGrader resize to fix the browser window.

Explanation: When a student submits an assignment with an image file that is larger than the browser window, SpeedGrader was not resizing the files to fit the browser. This behavior did not occur in Firefox. Canvas code has been updated to automatically resize large images as part of assignment submissions.

Syllabus
Syllabus Table Heading
The Syllabus table heading is labeled as Course Summary.

Explanation: When a user viewed the Syllabus page, the Syllabus table heading was labeled as Assignment Summary, which proved confusing since course events could also be included in the Syllabus. Canvas code has been updated to change the heading to Course Summary.

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Yay for Office 365 and Google Apps in Speedgrader!  Glad to hear this was added, not having this was one of the things holding us back from turning it on.  

I concur.  This was a quiet but very welcome update.  

Oh so happy to know that delayed announcements will not appear on the home page. It's already bugged me that I have to turn on student view to confirm that students cannot see upcoming news.

I'm going to reiterate (in brief) some of the concerns I raised yesterday in the Beta discussion about the Participation and Page Views metrics in Context cards.  Too bad that these serious concerns might stop us from adopting an otherwise useful feature and I'm worried that down the road we may not have the option to turn the feature off:

1) Only three ratings (high, medium and low) make these inherently coarse measurments

2) Where the cut-offs between the ratings are set matters, and the teacher doesn't get to choose that or even know what it is.

3) Participation measured only by clicks disregards student engagement or quality of participation.  Also easily gamed.

4) These metrics could, in some cases, promote lazy grading

5) These metrics makes it look like Canvas is promoting the use of extremely coarse and questionable metrics as valid data.

6) Any participation metric that ignores mobile participation can't be taken seriously for assessment purposes, but most Teachers won't even know that mobile participation is being ignored. 

I confess that the many comments in the Beta Release Notes for this release made me realize the fact that mobile participation is not included in the analytics.  (Either that or I completely forget.  At the age I'm getting to be, likely the latter.)  It would be nice--until that is resolved--if Instructure could find a way to just include that in the "fine print," as it were, on those pages at the top.  Something as simple as Mobile, non-browser-based data not included would suffice to at least help us--and our faculty--realize that.

I am noticing that Context cards are not working for other student based course roles we have in Canvas.  For example, we have a custom student role called "Instructor Added Student" for when instructors want to add non SIS enrolled students in a course.  Maybe they are making up an Incomplete or something like that.  Any word on if this is intended functionality?

Thanks, Justin. We'll have our engineers take a look at that.

Erin

Hi, Ken,

Our mobile team is trying to address improved mobile reporting with our web team, so at some point in an upcoming release we hope to have some more good news for you.

Thanks,

Erin

Erin,

Can you double check with the engineers on the grade reported on the Student Context Card. Here's what I'm noticing:

The grade shows their overall student-view grade based on the grading scheme used in the course. This grade does not include muted assignments, so your gradebook will show the true grade and students(Context Card) just report what has been released.

Cheers - Shar

Ken, I'm with you about cautioning faculty use, though I'd just as soon have the issue get fixed. It's really frustrating to have to keep either not talking about cool features, or spending more time covering the caveats than the feature. I feel like I'm advertising on the Golf Channel, but with the number of students we see coming in via mobile, I can't just throw the feature out there. 

I got a little ahead of myself and tried to test out the SCORM import capability.  Disappointed when it didn't work out and then remembered "oh yea..1/28".  I have a reminder on my calendar to test it out over the weekend and I even loaded up a dummy course full of various scorm packages.  Fingers remain crossed.  And to think: usually I look forward to the weekend to not work.  

Hi, everyone,

We've updated the production release notes to remove the Student Context Card feature. This feature will still be available in the beta environment, but it will not be available in production as part of Saturday's release. Canvas has a strong commitment to making all features accessible to all users, and we have found a concern that needs to be addressed before we can make this feature available in production. (Our team will also review any contrary behaviors as previously noted in the comments.) We'll re-introduce this feature in a future release. 

Thank you,

Erin

A few things we noticed with the update as it relates to the GOOGLE LTI: 

  1. The ICON for Google Drive has disappeared from the RCE. (I submitted a ticket) 
  2. Crocodoc is still not working. We still see the docs are PDFS and crocodoc is not available.  (I did not submit a ticket
  3. BUG: The TIME STAMP inside of Canvas for when the google doc was update is on UTC but the rest of the google history inside our drive etc is our regular time zone (PDT) Example: On the assignment page student sees "Assignment submitted at  21;00" On their drive and the speedgrader, the time stamp is 1:00
  4. SUBMIT and RESUMiT: Students cannot see that they have already submitted the assignment once, twice etc... If they click on submit thinking that perhaps they did not do so already, the teacher now has multiple version of the document.  Super annoying and very confusing. 

Wondering on the Google side of things: 

  1. The lack of the "live link" to the student's document is causing issues. Will this be added soon? 
  2. The renaming of the document to read "copy of"  is not awesome. Any way to add the student's username at the beginning of the document? 
  3. The "share" button is not active inside of Canvas which causes the user to have to go back out of canvas and into their drive to share a document differently that the original settings.
    User Story: IN our institution, all students share their docs with their teachers so that the teacher can take full advantage of the commenting, editing, etc in the docs to help with feedback. 

Overall, this is coming along well. Looking forward to continued improvements. 

 @dianepbh ‌ I agree 100% with everything you just said. 

With all of the negativity in this thread around the Student Context Card. I thought I would be the first to say that our group loves this feature and while there are like some things that still need to be worked out, we were very excited to see how our faculty as well as some of our retention staff may use this capability to quickly identify students at risk. I'm not sure how any of the information on the card could be used for "lazy grading". 

As an enhancement, we would like for students to be able to see their own context cards. It might be more beneficial in place of the ToDo list (which we disabled after repeated faculty requests).

I like that idea of a student seeing their own card, it's like a quick check-up for themselves especially with regard to activity and participation.

And course group membership would be handy to see on the context card as well. I've seen a few students still not sure of what group they are in or who is in their group even with explanations of the People page and links to the Canvas guides. And for instructors, the group name would be handy to see on the context card in order to quickly jump into the group and see how that group space is developing especially when it's the same one or two members who express concerns to their instructors.

Cheers - Shar

Is anyone else trying to view a Google Cloud Assignment submission in SpeedGrader and getting "Preview not available.  An error occured while converting this document." ?

Yes... We are getting the message "opps not available." 

ALSO: 

  • no access to graphics for the student
  • no access to CROCODOCs

We submitted a ticket but have not heard back or found any resolutions. 

Us admins received an email that the Box service is having issues, so your issues MAY be related to that.  Also, check their Twitter feed here:  Box Status (@BoxStatus) | Twitter .

This is what we got just got. 

Image from SPEED-GRADER ERROR

Hi, Diane!

The engineers corrected the sizing for the icon, which you can restore the Google Drive icon by reinstalling the Google Apps LTI. Reinstalling the LTI should not affect anything that has already been set up though (and it's okay to use a new key and secret). 

Our engineers are checking back into the Crocodoc behavior. 

The other behaviors you've noted will have to be determined by the product manager so we can't offer any updates at this time. 

Thanks,

Erin

Explanation of why I used the term "lazy grading":  I can imagine that some teachers would, for example, take two points away from a student with 0 participation stars, 1 point away from anyone with 1 star, and add 1 point to anyone with 2 stars and 2 points to anyone with 3 stars.  Sounds reasonable, yet gives no attention to the quality of the participation or, perhaps more importantly, to individual differences that impact on participation.  Do you think I'm not giving teachers enough credit?  I have heard exactly this complaint from students in regular classes where participation is graded and I think the star system promotes this way of thinking.  I happen to feel strongly about this matter.

Hi, Diane,

As long as you've submitted a support case, you'll be notified when there is an update. 

Thanks!

Erin

Hi, everyone,

It's that time again! Beta notes have been published and you can view them here: https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-8833-canvas-beta-release-notes-2017-02-06 

Thanks,

Erin