Notable changes to Canvas @ Yale environment, last updated 5/5/2026.
Also check out Canvas Updates for Spring 2026 and Canvas Updates for Fall 2026.
Table of Contents
This article will address the following information:
Canvas Updates
- The course navigation menu settings page is updated to better support keyboard navigation for accessibilty. Changes include:
- Dragged items are highlighted with a blue fill and border instead of gray, consistent with keyboard-based reordering.
- Items can be reordered using the keyboard: select an item, press Space to start moving it, use the Up/Down arrows to reposition, and press Space again to drop it or Esc to cancel.
- In SpeedGrader, the student drop-down menu includes an indicator showing which student is currently being viewed. This helps instructors quickly identify the currently selected student in SpeedGrader, making it easier to navigate submissions and reducing confusion when switching between students.
- The quiz accommodation tray in New Quizzes has been redesigned for clarity and ease of use. Instructors can apply time adjustments and reopen a student's quiz attempt in a single action. The tray also shows a real-time breakdown of all time sources, the base quiz time, any course-level accommodations, and the quiz-level adjustment, so instructors always know what the student's total allowed time will be before saving.
External Tool Updates
Qulatrics LTI Tool Removal Reminder
The Qualtrics LTI, which supports the direct integration, distribution, and collection of Qualtrics Surveys in a Canvas course site, will be removed from all Yale Canvas instances on May 19, 2026. For more information, please reference our news article on this topic.
Box LTI Retirement
As part of the University's move away from Box @ Yale as an optional cloud storage solution, we will be de-emphasizing the Box LTI option in the Canvas App Center, and making it unavailable for users to add to their Canvas course site by the end of May 2026.