What's New in Canvas for March 2021

 Canvas is continually making updates to keep up with the demands of eLearning and an upsurge of use.  Some people have expressed concern that Canvas's updates have been overwhelming.  To help assist with that, this week's blog focuses on new updates in Canvas.  

Click here for the information on the new Rich Content Editor or RCE.  This is the window/screen that opens up when you want to add content to your Canvas page, assignment, or etc.  These changes became visible in Canvas back in January.

Below you will find links and information about new features you can find or expect to encounter soon in Canvas.  

• New Resources and Webinars:

• New Partnerships Page

• Instructure Shop

• It’s Due - Free Self Paced Course - Exploring Submission Types as a Student

• Canvas for Littles: Teaching Online Kindergarten with Canvas LMS - Livestream

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu1-kHKzOCk

• Highlighting how Canvas was adopted and leveraged during the pandemic

                                       to help elementary students thrive

• Mark Boothe, our Senior Director of Digital, and Melissa Loble,

                                       our Chief Customer Experience Officer will be joined by the amazing Canvas
                                       admins, Carie Jacobs and Abby Cunningham, of West Des Moines Community

                                       School District and their star teacher, Lisa Deatrick, who adopted Canvas

                                       during the pandemic and excelled in making online learning thrive with her

                                       kindergarten kiddos.

• Updated Roadmap - March has Assignment and Elementary Friendlier Features

• March 9 K12 Enhancements Webinar Registration

• Modules Support Adding New Quizzes & Release Timing - Can also leave feedback

                         here in the comments or request a 15 min call!

• Product Podcast for January - A good one with the Canvas vision for this year,

                          product roadmap and attendance reporting discussed

• Upcoming Releases: Canvas gradebook releases that went into beta and will be in production

                          next month:

• View Ungraded as Zero now has the modal now added. Users will have to confirm

                           they've read it the first time that the setting is enabled.

• Grading Period in CSV Headers - When grading periods are used in the Gradebook, the

                          Gradebook CSV exporter will append the title of the selected grading period to column

                           headers whose values vary based on grading period. This change helps instructors

                           see which columns in the CSV are specific to the grading period. And, it also helps

                           them to ensure they are entering values into the correct cell for re-import.

• Import Override Scores in Gradebook - The Gradebook importer recognizes and

                          can apply changes for override scores. These imported overrides are reflected in the

                          gradebook history long with those done in the UI.

• 2/3/21 Deploy Notes

• 2/20/21 Release Notes

• Release Notes Page (to Subscribe)