IT Professionals,
On November 19, between 8am and 12pm ET, Instructure (Canvas) will be performing a regularly scheduled monthly release to the IU Canvas instance.
Updates in this release include:
- Calendar: Account Calendar
- Admin and Sub-account admins can create an account calendar with events and important dates. In Canvas Calendars, there is the option to subscribe to Account Calendars in the Other Calendars section.
- Outcomes: Outcome Alignment Summary Tab
- Instructors can quickly view a summary of alignments to the Outcomes in their course. Additionally, instructors can use a filter to view all Outcomes, view only those with alignments or view those without alignments.
View the full release notes.
In addition, the Playposit tool now has support for peer review using Canvas Groups.
Lastly, there will be a new user-facing role added to Canvas on November 18 just prior to the Canvas release on November 19. The title of this role will be ‘Peer Tutor’. Its intended purpose is to give Supplemental Instructors for a course all the same permissions as the ‘Student’ role with the following additional permissions:
- Conversations -> send messages to entire class
- Course Calendar -> add/edit/delete
- Discussions -> moderate
- Groups -> view all student groups
- Manage Course files -> add
- Manage Course files -> edit
- Manage Pages -> add
- Manage Pages -> edit
If you have questions, please contact ithelp@iu.edu.
As always, we will continue to provide timely communications concerning future updates.
–IT Community Partnerships on behalf of the eLearning Services team