It’s that time again, and Jay Hsiao has summarized cool new things and/or fixes that were added to CarmenCanvas in the past month. If something catches your eye, feel free to come talk to the Office of Teaching & Learning’s instructional designers.
For a complete list, check out the release notes from 3/11 and 4/1.
For Instructors and Students
- In Discussions, it is now possible to remove a file attached to a reply.
- In the Dashboard, the “Coming Up” list no longer shows items from unpublished courses
- The Chat tool is getting a facelift! This particular tool is especially helpful if you have out-of-class synchronous activities, or if you a mix of in-person and online students in the same class. Specifically, the update includes changes to the interface, chat management, and chat history.
Instructors Only
- In the Rich Content Editor, you can now add placeholder links for new pages using the sidebar; notice that the new pages will not be actually created until you visit them, add content, and then save/publish.
- SpeedGrader now warns you about unmuting an assignment (i.e. to release feedback and grades).
- SpeedGrader now shows playback controls for media comments.
Odds and Ends
- In the Rich Content Editor, it is now possible to add abbreviations for screen readers using the addr HTML tag.
- In the Rich Content Editor, it is now possible to set videos to play inline by default using the playsinline HTML tag.
- The delete button in Calendar now works correctly.
- Import of D2L text entry questions now works correctly.
- Graded surveys now retain the manually assigned total score rather than sum of individual questions.