Canvas's core functionality is continuously updated throughout the year. Here are some of the more notable changes you should be aware of.

• Users with the role of Instructor or Guest Instructor in a Canvas course can submit a document on behalf of a student for a Canvas Assignment activity.
• RCE now supports copy and pasting of media. Can also drag and drop files from your computer directly into the RCE. 
• Updated student Gradebook feedback view now makes it easier for students to identify new comments and feedback on activities from the Gradebook page. 
• In the Gradebook and SpeedGrader, the missing status of an assignment can be added by entering "MI" or "mi" in the assignment cell. 
• Rich Content Editor quick action buttons (like adding a file or embedding an image) have changed functionality so that when you click on them, their respective drop-down menus open for further selection. 

We are excited to announce that we are facilitating a year-long pilot with FeedbackFruits, a tool suite that supports a variety of peer-to-peer, instructor-to-student, and student-to-course content feedback activities. FeedbackFruits is integrated and available through Canvas Assignments.

Some of the available tools include:

• Peer Review - peer-to-peer evaluation of a submitted assignment
• Skill Review - instructor-to-student evaluation of a student's skills (such as an oral exam or presentation)
• Group Member Evaluation - peer-to-peer evaluation of their group member's performance / skills
• Interactive Document / Video / Audio - student-to-course content engagement with uploaded materials through annotations and embedded discussion questions / quizzes
• Discussion on Topic / Work - peer-to-peer discussion on a specific topic or student-uploaded work

To learn more, please check out our FeedbackFruits: Overview support article.

Through collaboration with the the FAS Dean's Office and the Poorvu Center, the FAS Canvas Expanded Course Description template has been updated to include an Academic Integrity section.

The Academic Integrity section allows instructors a space to provide a statement that defines what academic integrity means for their course, tailored in part to the course assignments and what constitutes appropriate collaboration outside of class.

The Poorvu Center has additional guidance on writing academic integrity statements which instructors may find valuable.

The default storage for all courses in Canvas has increased from 1000MB (1GB) to 1500MB (1.5GB). All academic and non-academic course sites will reflect this increased default storage amount.

To learn more about file storage in Canvas, please check our our Understanding Files and File Storage Quotas in Canvas article.

All Canvas @ Yale sites now have a Course Accessibility Report from Blackboard Ally in their Course Navigation menu. This Course Accessibility Report acts as a complement to the existing accessibility indicators found throughout a Canvas course site and provides an accessibility summary / overview at the course level for Instructors, TAs, and academic support staff.

To learn more about this new report and how it can help you improve the accessibility of your course and course content, please check out our Blackboard Ally: Viewing and Using the Course Accessibility Report article.

The Zoom integration in Canvas @ Yale was updated  from LTI 1.1 to LTI 1.3 on June 5^th, 2023. Summer and Fall Canvas courses created after this date were created with the updated Zoom enabled automatically.

Zoom LTI 1.1 was removed from our Canvas instance at the end of the Summer 2023 semester on August 7^th, and the LTI 1.3 version was turned on for all Fall 23 courses automatically.

Any Fall 2023 courses that previously disabled their Zoom tool or will not be utilizing the Zoom integration in their courses can disable the tool within their Course Navigation.

The Courses list, found in the Global Navigation menu, now supports filters at the top of each column to make it easier to sort and find specific courses you may be looking for. You can click on each column header to sort your courses, or use the text boxes below each column header to filter to specific key words related to a given column.