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On July 9, 2024 the Canvas Master/Manual course request form was updated. A new field, Business Area, has been added to the Manual/Master course request form to start capturing unit information in order to better understand Canvas usage. Additionally, users will...
Service packs are updates to Canvas released on a regular basis. The next Service Pack deployment will be on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. ET. This update will fix a bug that caused issues with the bulk enrollment process that is utilized by...
Service packs are updates to Canvas released on a regular basis. The next Service Pack deployment will be on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. ET. The update will affect the Archive Management page to now allow a fixed sorting of data and to now...
Some internet search engines including Bing and DuckDuckGo have recently provided the Canvas test server as the top result when searching for Canvas at Penn State. This has caused some Canvas users to access and use the test server instead of the production server...
Penn State will continue to only support the creation of quizzes (built from scratch) using Canvas’s New Quizzes tool. New Quizzes is the updated Canvas quiz engine which may eventually replace the existing Classic Quiz engine. The use of New Quizzes is not...
**UPDATE** Kaltura Media Player Upgrade rescheduled for Wednesday, May 15th, 2024. On May 15th the V7 Player will automatically replace the player shown in several areas: MediaSpace: Users will encounter the V7 player when viewing MediaSpace pages. Canvas: My...
Service packs are updates to Canvas released on a regular basis. The next Service Pack deployment will be on Tuesday, February 20, 2023, from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. ET. This update will not affect core Canvas functionality; however, Penn State customizations (items...
Reminder: Penn State will now support the creation of quizzes (built from scratch) using Canvas’s New Quizzes tool. New Quizzes is the updated Canvas quiz engine which may eventually replace the existing Classic Quiz engine. The use of New Quizzes is not required...
Service packs are updates to Canvas released on a regular basis. The next Service Pack deployment will be on Tuesday, February 13, 2024, from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. ET. This update will not affect core Canvas functionality; however, Penn State customizations (items...
Penn State will now support the creation of quizzes (built from scratch) using Canvas’s New Quizzes tool. The training schedule and additional resources are provided below. Please note, several features will not initially be supported, including the migration of...