Canvas Updates May 2021
May 26, 2021
Assignments
Student Annotation Submissions
New Quizzes
Save and Build Button Workflow
Summary
The New Quiz creation page includes both a Save button and a Build button.
Change Benefit
This change aligns the Save button behavior with other areas of Canvas, and the Build button distinctively separates the workflow for building a quiz.
Affected User Roles
Instructors
When an instructor creates and enters details for a quiz, the page displays both a Save and a Build button. Previously the page only included the Save button, which counterintuitively launched the New Quiz editor.
The Save button saves the content in the existing page and returns the user to the area where the quiz was accessed. . This change to the Save button mimics similar behavior located throughout Canvas regarding saving page content.
The Build button saves the existing page and launches the New Quiz editor.
User Settings
Auto-Show Closed Captioning
Summary
Users can enable captions to show by default in all Canvas videos.
Change Benefit
This change allows users to view captions added to videos by default without having to manually enable captions for each individual video.
Affected User Roles
All Users
Users can access the User Settings page to enable the Auto-Show Closed Captioning feature. This functionality is supported for captions added to recorded Canvas videos or uploaded videos in a course.
Captions can be added to a video when uploading a video, or they can be added any time by clicking the video in the Rich Content Editor and accessing the video options sidebar.
Note: Videos embedded from third-party tools, such as YouTube, are not supported. Additionally, videos embedded from Canvas Studio videos are not yet supported but will be in a future release.
