Archive: News

  • November 2021 Canvas Changes and Updates

    Assignment Submission Feedback Indicator For students, in the Assignment Details page, the 'Show Rubric' and 'View Feedback' links indicate when new comments have been added. A "blue dot" will app

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  • October 2021 Canvas Changes and Updates

    Sticky Course Navigation Menu The course navigation menu now floats when scrolling up and down on pages and remains visible at all times. Also, the course navigation menu now has its own scroll ba

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  • Course Analytics

    The "New Analytics" tool has been rebranded to "Course Analytics" and is available by default on the course menu for all courses in Canvas. Learn how to use Course Analytics in your Canvas course

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  • August 2021 Canvas Changes and Updates

    Canvas Release Notes now appear on the Help menu The Canvas Help Menu displays a number indicator when a release note has been published for your role in Canvas (Student, Teacher, Admin). Release

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  • Summer 2021 Canvas Changes and Updates

    SpeedGrader: Comment Library Comments can be added and saved for reuse within the SpeedGrader. This change allows graders to save frequently used comments in SpeedGrader, which can be reused acros

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  • New Canvas Assignment Type: Student Annotation

    On the assignment creation page, instructors can select the option to create an online assignment and select the Student Annotation assignment type. Instructors provide the file that should be ann

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  • Spring 2021 Canvas Changes and Updates

    Assignments: Webcam Submissions Students can use their webcam to take a photo for an assignment submission. Instructors can view uploaded images submitted via a student’s webcam as they see other

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  • The New Georgetown Canvas Support Site

    All the same resources from the old site are here on the new site! They have been reorganized and the site has been updated to match the university's branding. The biggest changes can be found on the

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  • Upcoming Canvas Changes

    Periodically functionality will be added, changed, or removed in Canvas. For a summary of all upcoming and past changes that may affect Georgetown's Canvas instance, check out the Canvas Release Arch

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  • Fall 2020 Canvas Changes and Updates

    Direct Share/Copy: Assignments, Quizzes, Discussions, and Pages Teachers can copy individual content to another course and share content items with individual users in Canvas. Assignment Due an

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