Meeting with Canvas Customer Success Manager
The Canvas University of Auckland team recently met with Avi Hanner the Customer success Manager for Canvas.The meeting helped clarify Canvas’s current priorities and direction, as well as providing an opportunity for the UoA team to clarify current Canvas issues and...New Canvas feature: Course Link Validator design enhancements
Did you know there is a quick and easy way to check for broken or invalid links in your Canvas courses?In any course – from the Settings link, select the Validate Links in Content button, then Start Link ValidationOnce the link validation process has completed...New feature: Docviewer document rotation
You, and your students, can now manually rotate a single page of content from the DocViewer Toolbar using the Rotate button. The Rotate button rotates the current page clockwise by 90 degrees. Read more on Canvas Community: Canvas Release Notes (2018-10-06) Document...Options in anonymising assignments in Canvas
In Canvas, there are different options in anonymising assignments and feedback. To mark assignments in Canvas without identifying who submitted them, enable the option to Hide Student Names in Speedgrader. This is applied as a view-only, per-assignment basis.
New Feature: download submission comments in Speedgrader
In Speedgrader, a quick and easy way to leave feedback for your students is by adding text comments to the assignments. Now, you can export these comments as a single PDF file (per submission) by simply clicking on the download submission comments link from the Speedgrade sidebar.