IT Professionals:
The eLearning Services team (eLS) want to inform you of two upcoming changes in Canvas and Zoom.
There is a Canvas [1] update scheduled for Saturday, November 16 between 8:00am and 12:00pm EST. Canvas will receive feature updates and bug fixes managed by the vendor (Instructure). Highlights in this update include:
- Updated Features:
- Dashboard: Unfavorite Canvas sites via corresponding course card
- Quizzes.Next: Manually submit in-progress/outstanding quiz attempts
- Fixed Bugs
- API updates
See the release notes [2] for a full list of expected updates and fixes, including a short (~5 minutes) screencast reviewing this release.
Next, Top Hat [3] will undergo scheduled system maintenance on Sunday, November 17 between 10:00am and 1:00pm EST. During this time, the Top Hat gradebook will be inaccessible.
Finally, on Saturday November 23, between 1:00am-9:00am EST, Pearson will be conducting vendor-scheduled maintenance [4] on the following DLT tools, all of which will be completely inaccessible both via the web interface and Canvas integration [5]: My Lab, MyLabs Plus, Mastering, and Modified Mastering.
–IT Community Partnerships on behalf of the eLearning Services Team
[1] About Canvas at IU https://kb.iu.edu/d/bcll
[2] Canvas Release Notes 09-21-2019 https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-17625
Alternatively, log in to Canvas. Click “Help”, “Ask the Community”, “Releases”, “Release Notes by Product”, “Canvas”, and “View Full Release Notes Document”.
[3] Top Hat at IU https://kb.iu.edu/d/aove
[4] Messages will also be posted to Twitter, @PearsonSupport, and on: https://support.pearson.com/getsupport/s/
[5] Get started with Pearson MyLab and Mastering and Pearson MyLabsPlus in Canvas: https://kb.iu.edu/d/bfak
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