New features are coming to Canvas on January 9th! You can watch the video about what's being updated, and added right here.

Faculty, Canvas created a new user interface and we would love for you to test it out and give us feedback! Take a look at the New Canvas UI here. 

Stream IPad To Projector

Faculty! Have you ever wanted to stream content from your IPad through the projector? Well, now you can! Take a look at our documentation on the process.

Fall 2015 Course Shells

Greetings Faculty,

We hope you're having a great summer! The eLearning department is happy to announce that Canvas course shells have arrived earlier than ever this year so you have as much time as possible to get that course content copied and ready for fall or start working on a brand new course design.

If you need help with Canvas check out our Resource Center for Faculty or contact the Teaching and Learning Center by phone at 928-226-4368, by email at eLearning@coconino.edu, or drop by room 458 on the Lone Tree campus.

Keep an eye out for our "Start of Semester" email describing all the changes to Canvas and the TLC this summer.

Stay cool!

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New Excuse an Assignment in Canvas

Instructure Released a new Canvas feature Saturday (6/27) and teachers now have the ability to excuse an assignment!

Excuse an Assignment

To excuse an assignment for a student, enter the value of ‘EX’ in the corresponding Gradebook cell. The Gradebook will reflect that the assignment is excused for the student. Excused assignments are not included in the calculation for a student’s total grade.

Students can also be excused from a Group Assignment; the other members of the group will still be able to view and submit the assignment.

Note: Currently, the Gradebook only accepts a standard Canvas-wide value of ‘EX’ for assignment exemptions. In phase two of this feature, instructors will be able to choose from a list of statuses for the excused assignment or for a graded assignment, such as late, missing, absent, etc.

When students have been excused from an assignment, they can view the excused status on the assignment submission page, or when they view the grades page. Students who are excused from an assignment will not be able to submit the assignment, though they can still view the assignment details.