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In an effort to continually improve Canvas, Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, releases Canvas upgrades every third Saturday of the month along with Release Notes. Pertinent features and upgrades are listed below. In this Canvas release, assignment menus in the Gradebook include a link to SpeedGrader. Feature Options The Mute Notifications by Course feature … Read More
Rutgers Canvas is pleased to announce the pilot of Hypothesis, an integrated social annotation tool. The Hypothesis LMS app brings discussion directly to course content by enabling students and teachers to add comments and start conversations in the margins of their texts. Collaborative annotation engages students more deeply in course readings and gives teachers a … Read More
Rutgers Canvas is pleased to announce the integration of Sage Vantage, an intuitive digital platform that blends trusted SAGE content with auto-graded assignments, all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. Built with instructors and students in mind, it offers easy course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class. With … Read More
Rutgers Canvas is pleased to announce the integration of Microsoft Teams Meetings for Rutgers Connect and Canvas users. Microsoft Teams has partnered with Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, to ensure that students and instructors stay connected in more ways — you can now easily create online meetings directly from Canvas so that classes can … Read More
We are aware of continuing issues related to Kaltura, an integrated streaming media service. This is impacting uploading, video processing, and the Media Gallery integrated in Canvas. Kaltura is aware of the issue. Kaltura is actively working to increase capacity. Thank you for your patience as we work with Kaltura to resolve this issue. Once the … Read More
Rutgers and Verificient, the parent company of Proctortrack, is pleased to announce two changes to the user workflow which will address issues arising from the surge of exams as institutions across the world move courses online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, Proctortrack is a passive remote online proctoring solution integrated in Canvas and … Read More
Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, will perform a maintenance event on Rutgers Canvas on Wednesday, March 25, 2020. This event will last up to 30 minutes and will start at 12:00 AM EST (4:00 AM UTC). In response to the rapid increase in online presence across the globe, Instructure will be performing database maintenance … Read More
In an effort to continually improve Canvas, Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, releases Canvas upgrades every third Saturday of the month along with Release Notes. Pertinent features and upgrades are listed below. In this Canvas release (March 21), the Gradebook export CSV file matches the order of assignments. In assignments, the status of re-uploaded … Read More
Blindside Networks, the parent company of Canvas Conferences, has informed Rutgers Canvas that the ability of viewers to see fellow participant web cameras has been disabled. Moderators will still be able to share their web cameras, see up to 20 participant web cameras, and viewers will be able to view the moderator web camera stream. … Read More
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many education technology partners have published or relayed to Rutgers Canvas information concerning emergency preparedness and contingency plans, as well as, additional resources and trainings that are available. Some of the tools listed below are supported by the Rutgers Canvas Help Desk. For those that are not supported, please … Read More