IT Professionals,
Pearson will be conducting maintenance [1] this Saturday, June 19 between 1:00am and 9:00am ET on the following products used at IU: MyLab IT [2] and Modified Mastering Microbiology. During this time, instructors and students will be unable to access their courses.
Later that day, Instructure will be conducting its monthly Canvas release between 8:00am-12:00pm ET. Highlights of the release include:
- Discussions: The Discussions tool has been redesigned for improved usability and responsiveness.
- Note: instructors who would like to use the redesign must enable it on a course-by-course basis.
- New Quizzes: Quiz banks may be shared with other courses as well as an entire account within Canvas.
- Note: you must have administrative permissions [3] in order to share a bank with an account.
- SpeedGrader: Instructors can save and use their comments for future assignments and students.
See the release notes [4] for a full list of expected updates and fixes, including a short (~5 minutes) screencast reviewing this release.
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] Messages will also be posted to Twitter, @PearsonSupport, and on: https://support.pearson.com/getsupport/s/
[2] Get started with Pearson MyLab and Mastering and Pearson MyLabsPlus in Canvas: https://kb.iu.edu/d/bfak
[3] Administrative access to Canvas at IU https://kb.iu.edu/d/ajem
[4] Canvas release notes https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Releases/Canvas-Release-Notes-2021-06-19/ta-p/464086