February 2024 Canvas Deploy Notes

Created by Maria Shimel
Aug 13, 2024
3 min read

WHAT IS THIS? This Blog is made up of curated notes taken from the official Canvas Deploy Notes; the goal is to highlight upcoming changes and improvements to Canvas at Boise State University.

  • To do a deeper dive on any of these topics, please follow the provided link to the full list of Canvas Deploy Notes.

  • Boise State University does not subscribe to all functionalities that might be included in the Canvas Deploy Notes official webpage. If you have questions about the Boise State Canvas instance, please email LTS@boisestate.edu.

WHO IS THE AUDIENCE? Boise State Faculty and Staff.

  • Occasionally some small changes will impact Students in Canvas, these changes should be communicated by Faculty to their impacted Students.

  • Large changes in the user interface will be communicated to all Boise State Users in advance.

WHY SHOULD I READ THIS? This Blog provides a running list of changes/improvements that have been made in Canvas. Users who work on a rotating contractual basis could find the listed updates helpful in “catching up” with any changes in Canvas during their time away from teaching.

WHEN WILL THE NEXT BLOG BE RELEASED? LTS plans to update this Blog on a monthly basis.

Canvas Deploy Notes (2024-02-14)

  • TOOL: New Analytics

  • IMPACTED: Faculty

  • CHANGE: User Interface Update

Screenshot of the admin analytics page, meant to demonstrate a smooth layout.

Canvas Release Notes (2024-02-17)

TOOL: Calendar

IMPACTED: Faculty must turn on this setting in their course in order to use it; “Observers” who the Faculty have manually enrolled in their Canvas Courses can now do this

CHANGED and ADDED: Allow Observers to Sign up for Appointment Groups

 

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Canvas Deploy Notes (2024-02-28)

  • TOOL: Assignments

  • IMPACTED: Faculty

  • ADDED: When Mastery Paths is enabled, module items display the Mastery Paths icon. This update allows instructors to easily identify Mastery Path module items.

 

  • TOOL: Rich Content Editor

  • IMPACTED: All Users

  • CHANGE: Removal of Non-Web Safe Font Options to ensure all users view the same font.

The Rich Content Editor font options are updated to only include web-safe fonts available on all systems. This update removes the following fonts from the RCE:

  • Andale Mono

  • Book Antiqua

  • Comic Sans MS

  • Helvetica

  • Impact

  • Symbol

  • Terminal

  • Webdings

  • Wingdings

  • Change Benefit