IT Professionals,
The eLearning Services team (eLS) wants to inform you of three upcoming changes.
Beginning on Thursday, June 18 at 5:30am, users will be able to restrict access to their Zoom at IU [1] meeting rooms so that only users who are logged into a Zoom account provided by Indiana University may join a given meeting [2]. Note: this feature must be enabled on a per-meeting basis.
Additionally, there is a scheduled vendor update [3] for the following Pearson applications [4] on Saturday, June 20 between 1:00 am and 9:00 am EST:
- Mastering, MyLabs and Mastering, MyLabsPlus: Students and instructors will be unable to access courses via the integration or standalone website. Grade Sync functionality will be queued so that no data is lost.
Next, there is a Canvas [5] update scheduled for Saturday, June 20 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:
- Assignments: edit and apply assignment dates for multiple assignments at once
- Notifications: specify which notifications you wish to receive from a given course
- Fixed Bugs
- API updates
See the release notes [6] for a full list updates and fixes, including a short (~5 minutes) screencast reviewing this release.
Finally, the ability to email content to a specified folder in Box will be disabled on July 1st as part of the Box retirement [7].
As always, we will continue to provide timely communication/additional information concerning future updates.
– IT Community Partnerships on behalf of The eLearning Services team
[1] About Zoom at IU https://kb.iu.edu/d/bfqu
[2] Prevent Zoombombing using Zoom privacy and security features https://kb.iu.edu/d/ativ
- Note: instructions for enabling this feature will not be available in this KB document until 5:30am on Thursday, June 18.
[3] Messages will also be posted to Twitter, @PearsonSupport, and on: https://support.pearson.com/getsupport/s/
[4] Get started with Pearson MyLab and Mastering and Pearson MyLabsPlus in Canvas: https://kb.iu.edu/d/bfak
[5] About Canvas at IU https://kb.iu.edu/d/bcll
[6] Canvas Release Notes 06-20-2020 https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-26857
- Alternatively, log in to Canvas. Click “Help”, “Ask the Community”, “Releases”, “Release Notes by Product”, “Canvas”, and “View Full Release Notes Document”.