Canvas and Redshelf Maintenance – July 20 & 24

IT colleagues, 

On Saturday July 20, between 8am and 12pm EST, Instructure (Canvas) will be performing a regularly scheduled monthly release in the IU Canvas instance. There is no downtime expected for this maintenance.

Included in this release are:

• New Features

• • Discussions: Ungraded Discussions Assign To

• • Navigation: Analytics Hub 

• • Inbox (Faculty and Admins only) 

• • • Add Signature to Messages 

• • • Add Auto Response to Messages 

• • Intelligent Insights: Analytics and AI 

• • Modules: Module and Assignment Differentiation 

• • Pages: Assign To Feature Available 

• Updated Features 

• • Assignments: Assign To Interface Update 

• Feature Options 

• • Admin Analytics: Navigation Updates 

• • Navigation: Top Navigation LTI Button 

• Other Updates 

• • Announcements and Discussions: Enforcement of Discussion/Announcement Redesign Feature Option 

• • Discussions: Create and Edit Page is updated to InstUI 

• • Navigation: Removal of Legacy Account Analytics 

Full release notes may be found here. 

In addition, on Wednesday July 24, between 11-12pm, Redshelf (Unizin Engage eReader) will be down for normally scheduled maintenance. 

–IT Community Partnerships on behalf of the eLearning Services team