by Cheryl Walker | Nov 16, 2018 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos
Did you know that you can now rotate the page view when viewing a file in Canvas’ DocViewer tool? This feature allows instructors and students to manually rotate images and documents in DocViewer to allow easier viewing of files that were uploaded with a...
by Mohammad Ahmed | Nov 5, 2018 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos
“How can Canvas help me analyze how my students are doing?” Analytics Beta is a new Canvas tool that provides better analytics for tracking student data. It has an interactive chart or table which allows you to customize views of data and filter for specific items. ...
by Thomas Keith | Oct 12, 2018 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos
Has the Canvas site for your course been divided into sections? If so, Canvas’ Discussions tool will now allow you to create discussions that will only be visible to specific sections. This can be very useful if you wish to keep discussion threads focused and...
by Cecilia Lo | Aug 30, 2018 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions
Canvas releases new features and bug fixes every three weeks. This means that faculty, instructors, and students can expect problems with the software to be fixed more quickly, but it also means that users have to learn to be flexible and expect that the interface may...
by Cheryl Walker | Jul 23, 2018 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos
Section-specific announcements are now available in Canvas! Instructors can now select whether to send announcements to all sections, a single section, or multiple sections. By default, the announcement will be sent to all sections of your course. However, to select...
