the tl;dr by canvas lms

A focus on MasteryConnect updates and stronger integration with Canvas, CanvasCon Online agenda and speaker updates, and Virtual Leadership Series August openings. Visit show notes at podcasts.canvaslms.com.

Events

Press Release: Learning Innovators LeVar Burton and Sal Khan to speak at CanvasCon Online

Speakers | CanvasCon Online 2020

Agenda | CanvasCon Online 2020

The Center for Leadership and Learning

Virtual Leadership Series

A broadcast-worthy declaration about course notifications, the Canvas Elementary Theme for elementary students, Modules functionality updates, Studio's new Collections functionality, and events updates. 

Canvas Release Notes

Canvas Elementary Theming Release Notes

Modules Enhancements Release Notes

Course Notifications Release Notes 

Events

K–12 Virtual Leadership Series

CanvasCon Online

Blog: Educator of the Year

Educator of the Year K–12 Nomination Form (deadline June 30)

Educator of the Year Higher Education Nomination Form (deadline June 30)

Student Scholarship Program Nominations (deadline June 30)

A review of what's coming up for MasteryConnect and item authoring, a celebration of teachers and a call for Educator of the Year award submissions, and updates about InstructureCon's online transition.

Products

MasteryConnect Website

Events

CanvasCon Website (Virtual InstructureCon)

Teacher of the Year Awards 2020 (Blog Post)

• K12 Nominations
• Higher Education Nominations

A discussion about all the features that have been created by Canvas engineering and product teams to help institutions respond to COVID-19. 

Features

• Ready Release Features
• Feature Options by Canvas Release & Associated Resources

COVID-19

• instructure.com/canvas
• Resources by Role

A Canvas engineering discussion about temporary release and deploy changes related to COVID-19. 

Ready Release

• Ready Release Features page
• Blog: COVID-19 Updates to Canvas Releases and Deploys
• Canvas Release Calendar

A discussion about the New Rich Content Editor Auto Save feature, the Adobe Creative Cloud introduction, an introduction to K12 Assessments with MasteryPaths, and resources to assist with COVID-19 and online education.


Canvas Release Notes

Canvas Release Notes (2020-03-21) 

Features

User Group: New Rich Content Editor

New Rich Content Editor Auto Save release notes

New Rich Content Editor: Auto Save video

How do I add and modify text in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor?

How do I add and modify text in the New Rich Content Editor as a student? 

Integrations

Adobe Creative Cloud press release

Platform

MasteryConnect Assessment website

Coronavirus

Tools for Online Learning When the Classroom Closes (Instructure website)

Our Commitment to You During Coronavirus (Instructure blog, Melissa Loble)

Canvas Community Contingency Planning

Tips for Using MasteryConnect During a School Closure

A review of upcoming Canvas events, New Quizzes progress, the release of Commons Favorites, and Portfolium’s Folio Network. 

Time Stamps:
[00:19] Events—Matt Goodwin and Ryan Lufkin
[04:58] Quizzes—Kevin Dougherty
[16:43] Commons Favorites—Zsofi Goreczky
[21:21] Portfolium—Peter D’Orsi

Events

• InstructureCon 2020 page
• InstructureCon Canvas Community site

Quizzes

• Quizzes release notes (2020-02-15)
• New Quizzes - Canvas Instructor Guide
• New Quizzes - Canvas Student Guide
• New Quizzes Community User Group

Commons Favorites

• Commons Favorites release notes (2020-02-15)
• How do I add and manage Favorites in Commons?
• How do I import Commons Favorites in the Rich Content Editor in Canvas?
• How do I import a favorite assignment from Commons to Canvas as an instructor?
• How do I import a favorite discussion from Commons to Canvas as an instructor?
• How do I import a favorite page from Commons to Canvas as an instructor?
• How do I import a favorite quiz from Commons to Canvas as an instructor?

Portfolium

• All Portfolium Guides
• Portfolium Network Guides
• Portfolium Community User Group

An introduction to tl;dr and an overview of Gradebook updates, Direct Share, and Parent app 3.1. 

Time Stamps:
[00:00] Introduction—Matt Goodwin and Ryan Lufkin
[03:00] Release Process—Matt Goodwin and Ryan Lufkin
[05:00] New Gradebook—Jon Fenton
[09:57] Direct Share—Lauren Williams and Jon Willesen
[16:02] Parent Mobile App Updates—Peyton Craighill


Release Process

• Release Notes: Canvas LMS 
• Canvas Release Calendar Overview 
• What is the Canvas release schedule for beta, production, and test environments? 

Parent Mobile App

• Mobile Guides - Canvas Parent 
• Release Notes: Mobile