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10/18/2014 Canvas Release Notes

In this production release (10/18), students can rest assured when a quiz score is not complete, especially when a quiz contains a manually graded question. All users can set notifications to copy messages in Conversations, and instructors receive a session expiration warning in Crocodoc before they lose all their annotated hard work. Several other feature areas in Canvas have been improved with usability and cosmetic enhancements.

The production notes also include updates to existing Canvas features and fixed bugs.

View the 10/18/14 Canvas Production Release Notes & Screencast

Bug Report: Not all lines visible of .doc's

It has been brought to our attention that Crocodoc (the software Canvas uses to display file submissions) does not display the last line of files of the type (dot)doc. This means when inside the Speedgrader you may not see all of your students answers. We have reported this bug but meanwhile we are recommending that you disallow (dot)doc's from being submitted or that you advise your students to put a blank line at the end of their documents. This only applies to assignments that you are allowing students to upload their own files for submissions.

Here are the steps for disallowing doc's from being submitted.

1. Log in to Canvas and navigate to the course
2. Click on “Assignments" on the left-hand side of the screen
3. Choose the assignment you would like to modify by clicking its title
4. Click “Edit” in the top-right corner
5. Scroll down until you see “Submission Type”
6. If "File Uploads" is selected make sure "Restrict Upload File Types" is also checked
7. Remove “doc” from the list of file types acceptable for this assignment.
8. Scroll down and click “Update Assignment” to save your changes

If you are interested in learning more about the difference between doc and docx file types, there is a good article here.

New TLC Lab Assistants!

Thanks to the TACCT grant funds, the TLC was able to bring on two new individuals to help faculty.

Ariel is a Computer Science major here at CCC.  She joins us with a strong background of helping customers with computers and other office-related tasks.  She’s looking forward to the new opportunities working in the TLC.

Adam is also a student in Computer Science with a strong interest in ed. tech.  Most recently at the CCC Help Desk, Adam joins us in the Teaching and Learning Center.  He has a strong background in computing and is excited about working with faculty in this new role

 

InstructureCON 2014

Every year the team at Instructure have a big conference for Canvas. There are keynote talks from the CEO and other major figures within Canvas community and then there are break-out sessions with either Canvas community members or Instructure team members giving shorter talks on specific subject matter. Everything is recorded and put on their website so if you are interested in viewing any of these videos click here.

Videos from the 2013 conference can be viewed as a YouTube playlist here.

We found this video to be particularly engaging:
 

937 - CanvasLIVE 2014 - Best of InstructureCon 2014 from Instructure on Vimeo.