We write to inform you that our May 2023 Canvas Admin meeting has changed format to email rather than our regular scheduled Zoom meeting. We will resume the Canvas Admin meetings over Zoom for our August 2023 meeting time.
External Application News
In exciting assessment news, we are happy to announce our FeedbackFruits pilot will begin in Summer 2023 and run through Spring 2024. FeedbackFruits is a suite of fifteen tools that are focused on improving peer-to-peer, instructor-to-student, and student-to-content feedback and assessment. We invite faculty to participate in leveraging the full available tool suite. If you are aware of a faculty member, course series, or specific population that may benefit from using the tools that FeedbackFruits provides, please reach out to us at askpoorvucenter@yale.edu or share our resources with them!We would also like to share that we have successfully updated LinkedIn Learning to LTI 1.3, which now has a vastly improved integration workflow for bringing LinkedIn Learning content into a Canvas course and is able to track / tell if a student has watched the assigned video or video series. For the time being both the LTI 1.1 and LTI 1.3 versions are installed and visible in Canvas, but we will be depreciating the LTI 1.1 version at the end of the Spring 2023 semester.
Canvas Operational News
As many of you are aware, we have turned on the course creation stream for Fall 2023 FAS courses, meaning that many Yale College and GSAS courses have already been created. We are currently working with the URO and Professional Schools to find a time when all other Canvas courses will be enabled for creation.We are also happy to announce that we have worked with the URO to determine that September 25, 2023 will be the visitor purge date for the Fall 2023 semester. For more information the visitor purge, please check out our Understanding the Canvas @ Yale Visitor Purge article.
Select Canvas Release / Deploy Notes
Canvas has also released several updates that we would like to share with you that expand functionality of pre-existing tools as well as other quality of life improvements:- Emails sent from Announcements will now have an added warning message to recipients letting them know that replies will be public to the rest of the class.
- Sort / alphabetize students by first name in the Canvas Gradebook when their names are split.
- When File notifications are enabled and multiple files are added to a course, the file titles are included in the notification summary.
- New Quizzes activities can select to grade by individual questions in the SpeedGrader.
- New Quizzes allows you to share a new question Item Bank with your course when creating it.
- Upcoming 5/20/2023: Added Speedgrader direct link in the three-dot menus for assignments, graded discussions, modules, classic quizzes, and new quizzes.
Thank you for another successful semester of using and supporting Canvas for the Yale community. We look forward to continuing to work and collaborate with you all!
All the best,
Canvas @ Yale
The Educational Technology Team, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
Pilar Abuin
Senior Director, Educational Technology
Kristina Sánchez
Associate Director, Educational Technology
Clare Ankawi
Assistant Director, Educational Technology
Micah Nellums
Assitant Director, Educational Technology
Ryan Sobeck
Assistant Director, Educational Technology