Archive: News
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Chrome Update Impacts Zoom Conferencing and Photo Roster Tool
Google Chrome version 142, updated on October 28, 2025, added a new permission prompt for sites that make connections to a user's local network as part of the Local Network Access specification. W
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Letter Grades in your Canvas Courses
Instructors can use customizable grading schemes in their courses to convert points or percentages into letter grades, which can be displayed instead of or in addition to numeric scores. Grading
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New Quizzes planned outage on November 13th
Canvas will be performing maintenance on New Quizzes on November 13, 2025 at 3:00am Eastern Time. Maintenance work is expected to last up to one hour during the event. You may not be able to access N
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Educational Technologies for Fall 2025
As many of us begin the traditional start for the academic year, we invite you to take a look at the new developments in educational technologies and training opportunities at Georgetown. Digital
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Redesigned Course Files Page
The course Files page has been redesigned. This update offers a cleaner, more intuitive interface that simplifies file organization and management. Improvements like pagination, sorting, and streamli
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Canvas Commons
What is Canvas Commons? Canvas Commons is a place where faculty, program coordinators, and instructional designers can easily share assignments, templates, modules, and even full courses. Jus
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Discussion Checkpoints Now Available
What are Discussion Checkpoints and why would an instructor want to use them? Commonly referred to as “multiple discussion due dates,” Discussion Checkpoints allow instructors to create more stru
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Spring 2025 Canvas Changes and Updates
Canvas regularly releases updates to their system, and on this page you will find a number of important updates that have happened over the past several months. Search for Courses (formerly Smart
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Educational Technologies for Spring 2025
Welcome back! As we start a new semester, we invite you to take a look at the new developments in educational technologies and training opportunities at Georgetown. Digital Learning Days Launc
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Update: Dropped Course Enrollments Now Processing
During the winter break the sync between GU Experience and Canvas had a brief incident that dropped all Fall 2025 enrollments in Canvas. Those dropped enrollments have been restored, but we paused fu
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