What's New With Canvas
The Teaching and Learning Centre team is here to keep you up to date on new features and enhancements in Canvas.
New Quizzes
Canvas has transitioned to a new quizzing engine called New Quizzes, which replaced the original quizzing tool (now known as Classic Quizzes). New Quizzes offers a variety of features including more question types, the ability to add course-wide time accommodations, enhanced item analysis, and improved workflow options for building and moderating assessments.
Discussion Checkpoints
When creating a graded discussion, you can set multiple due dates or checkpoints to accommodate different stages of the discussion process, such as the initial post and follow-up replies.
This feature allows for more structured participation, ensuring students meet deadlines for each required step in the discussion.
Enhanced Rubrics
Enhanced rubrics make it easier for instructors to create and reuse rubrics, offer more precise feedback, and speed up grading.
The new Rubric Criteria Builder streamlines the rubric creation process, leveraging features like drag-and-drop functionality, rating order customization, and the ability to save rubrics as draft
The SpeedGrader interface has also been refined to offer vertical, horizontal, and traditional views, enhancing the grading experience on smaller devices.
Self-Assessment
Self Assessments encourage students to take ownership of their learning by actively reviewing and evaluating their own work based on the same criteria used by their instructors.
Once enabled for the assignment, students have access to a Self Assessment Rubric, allowing them to review and score their work, if enabled by their instructor.