This Saturday, March 12, Canvas will roll out changes to several feature areas designed to improve user accessibility.

View Canvas Production Release Notes (2016-03-12)

New Features

• Analytics: Page Views Table
• Assignments: Differentiated Group Assignments

Updated Features

• Dashboard: To Do List Numbering
• Calendar: Scheduler Student Signup View
• Course Imports: Modules Select Content
• People: Edit Observer Role, Deactivate User
• Quizzes: Instructor Quiz Previews

In this Saturday’s Canvas release (February 20), instructors can tell if their assignment submission Crocodoc annotations are being read by students. Canvas also includes various design enhancements to existing feature areas.

View Canvas Production Release Notes (2016-02-20)

Beta features are subject to change based on user feedback and testing. Please view the release notes for the latest information.

New Features

• SpeedGrader: Crocodoc Student Feedback Document Review

Updated Features

• Analytics: Graph Enhancements
• Announcements: Announcement Likes in Student Replies
• Assignments: External Tool URL
• Dashboard: Sidebar Enhancements
• Grades: Grade Sorting
• Outcomes: Single Calculation Methods
• Quizzes: Quiz Statistics Updates

In this Saturday’s Canvas release (August 8), instructors will now be able to view student interaction reports in a new overview layout, and several Canvas features will receive small updates for clarification and consistency. This release also removes all existing Etherpad collaborations in Canvas. You can view the Canvas Production Release Notes here.

New Feature

• People: Student Interactions Report Overview

Updated Features

• Collaborations: Etherpad
• Course Navigation: Gradebook Link
• Gradebook: Excuse an Assignment in Individual View
• Grades: Total Column Decimals
• Outcomes: Decaying Average Calculation
• Quizzes: Quiz Item Analysis Calculation
• Rich Content Editor: Default Icons