Highlights in this release:
– Embedded Image File Uploads
– Screen Reader and Browser Support Change
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Have you ever considered having students create their own podcasts, but want to avoid an added cost?
In case you missed them, here is a list highlighting some of the cool changes that have happened in Canvas over the past year.
Clicking Student View in Canvas creates a test student in your grade center. If you wish to remove the test student from a Canvas course, here are the steps.
There are special accessibility considerations when working with complex images, like infographics, images of text, and more.
The math equation editor within the Canvas rich content editor saves in an accessible format.
Checking for accessibility issues within Canvas can be done within Canvas either using the Accessibility Checker in the rich content editor or by using UDOIT.
Correcting color contrast issues within Canvas can be done with built-in tools.
A brief how-to for adding images via the Canvas visual text box content selector.
Canvas has features for accessible tables. You can add header rows and columns in the GUI.
You can edit each closed caption from the closed captioning screen by simply clicking the pencil icon.
This method is easy. After importing captions simply go line by line correcting each line.
A descriptive link allows a person to know what they are clicking on, and have an idea of where it will take them.
Sometimes an edit to a page can leave behind problematic code. Here’s how to fix it.
For Panopto web app on the captions edit screen simply click the pencil icon and you can edit the line of closed caption.
Canvas has added the ability to added color coded comments linked to annotations in the, DocViewer, document viewer. It has also provided a draw tool for annotations that offers three widths.
Canvas announced moving the Microsoft browser Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) to ‘Functional Support”. Which is tech speak meaning it will no longer be supported fully but still should work.
In this release:
Canvas Interface – Menu Design Updates
DocViewer – Free Text Annotation Backgrounds and Text Size
DocViewer – Pagination Links
Rich Content Editor – Decorative Image Checkbox
Easy table headers in Canvas.
The Canvas learning management system offers several features to improve the integrity of quizzes.