Canvas Feature Updates – October 2024
New Quizzes – Submitted Date Displays in Moderate Log
Production Environment Availability: 10/10/2024
In the Moderate Log, the date of submission displays for instructors. This update allows instructors to track student progress, ensure transparency, and resolve grading disputes by providing clear submission records. When viewing the Moderate Log, instructors can view the date of submission.
New Quizzes – Attempt Log Stopped Viewing the Canvas Quiz Page
Production Environment Availability: 10/10/2024
On the Moderate page, instructors can track when students leave the New Quiz page, whether they navigate to another Canvas page or switch browsers, and when they return to resume the quiz. This update allows instructors to monitor student engagement and time management during the quiz. On the Moderate Page, the Event detail Stopped viewing the quiz-taking page indicates when a student has left the Quiz page [1]. When a student returns, the Event Details show Resumed [2].
New Quizzes – Manage Student Result View
Production Environment Availability: 10/19/2024
In the New Quizzes Settings, instructors can select the timing and visibility of feedback and correct answers for students. This feature helps instructors enhance learning by timing feedback to reinforce understanding, encourage independent learning, and prevent cheating. It also allows for better alignment with review sessions and ensures fairness by standardizing the feedback process for all students. On the Settings page in New Quizzes, a Hide results from Students setting is available. This option is disabled by default.
When the Hide results from students setting is enabled, instructors have the option to selectively display some or all of the following: Show Questions [1], Show Points Possible [2], and Show Points Awarded [3].
When the Show Questions option is enabled, instructors have the options to Show Student responses [1] and Show feedback [2].
When the Show student responses option is enabled, instructors can choose when results are displayed after a specific attempt [1] and set specific Show on [2] and Hide on [3] dates and times. Additionally, they can display correct and incorrect responses using the Indicate response as correct or incorrect option, and decide whether to show the correct answer [4], either immediately or only after the student’s final attempt [6]. These settings can also be configured to Show on [7] or Hide on [8] particular dates.
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Assignments – Assign To Interface Update
Production Environment Availability: 10/23/2024
An additional “Add” button has been added to the top of the Assign To tray and the top of the Assign To list for Assignments, Discussions, Pages and Quizzes Edit/Create pages. This update streamlines instructor workflow, especially for larger courses, by eliminating the need to scroll down to the bottom of the tray or list in order to add a new Assign To card. If an educator has added more than three Assign To cards, the +Add button will appear at the top.
Announcements – Announcements Timestamp
Production Environment Availability: 10/23/2024
On the Timestamps for Announcements, the Created date is not visible to students and the Last edited date is only visible if the edit happened after publishing. Additionally, the Posted date now shows the date when the announcement became available. This update helps prevent students from misunderstanding the Posted and Last edited date.
Discussions – @mentions in Discussions uses Display Name
Production Environment Availability: 10/23/2024
When users type ‘@’ to mention someone, display names show. Before this change, when a user typed ‘@’ to mention someone, the populated list used Full names instead of Display names. Now it shows display names. This update prevents full names from being displayed and users will be mentioned by their display name only. Start typing @ in a Discussion reply. You’ll see the list of names are Display names.
Discussions – Edit button added to Discussions Index Page
On the Discussions Index page, the edit button has been added to the kebab menu. This update allows users to navigate to the edit page directly from the Discussions index page. On the Discussions page, click on the kebab menu. Then click the Edit link.
New Quizzes – Add Time to Existing Quiz Sessions
Production Environment Availability: 10/30/2024
While a New Quiz attempt is ongoing, instructors can moderate a quiz and extend the time allotted for the quiz. Additionally, the student course-level accommodation modal link is moved to the Student column. Previously, this was linked in the Accommodations column. This feature allows instructors to accommodate students who may need extra time due to various circumstances by providing additional time during an active quiz session. On the Moderate page, the course-level accommodation modal is linked to the student’s name.
Note: Extending the time of an ongoing quiz does not affect the instructor’s interface.
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