Updates

7/18 Canvas Release Product Notes

In this production release, instructors can better manage student assignments on a case-by-case basis. Additionally, institutions benefit from stronger authentication and login changes. The production notes also include updates to existing Canvas features, other Canvas updates, and fixed bugs. Assignments: Differentiated Assignment Section and Student List When assigning an assignment, discussion, or quiz to a…

Undergraduate Student Research: Usability Evaluation of Canvas

During Spring Quarter 2015, Professor Alfred Kobsa’s undergraduate Informatics 132 project course evaluated Canvas from the perspective of both instructors and students. The student researchers conducted a heuristic assessment of Canvas as well as a series of user interviews and usability tests on both Canvas and proposed user interface updates. Below are excerpts from the…

7/9 Canvas Downtime, 1-3 am

On Thursday, July 9, 2015, from 1 am to 3 am (Pacific) Instructure will be performing routine maintenance on the UCI Canvas Pilot. During this time, all Canvas course spaces will be unavailable. Update (7/9): Users were unable to access MyEEE during the scheduled Canvas Pilot downtime due to an unexpected response from the Canvas…

Canvas Pilot Quarterly Update Spring 2015

  • Publication date July 6, 2015

UCI’s year-long Canvas Pilot kicks off March 30th with the start of Spring instruction. The Canvas Pilot is an opportunity for instructors, teaching assistants, and students to use Canvas in their courses and participate in a formal assessment of the value and usability of Canvas as a potential addition to the instructional technology ecosystem at…

6/27 Canvas Release Product Notes

In this production release, instructors can better manage student assignments on a case-by-case basis. Additionally, institutions benefit from stronger authentication and login changes. The production notes also include updates to existing Canvas features, other Canvas updates, and fixed bugs. Gradebook updates Instructors can now excuse assignments by entering “EX” as the assignment score. Excused assignments…

6/6 Canvas Release Product Notes

In this Canvas release (June 6), all users benefit from new customization and assignment management features, and instructors receive several small changes that generate big results for keeping track of assignments and grades at a granular level. Multiple feature areas display enhanced design changes, which includes incorporating the New Files interface as a standard feature…