Feature Q&A: Canvas Release Notes (2024-06-15)

[CanvasDocTeam]

Looking to discuss these features from the 2024-06-15 Release Notes? Post a reply and start a conversation!

New Features

• Permissions: Item Bank Permission Addition
• SpeedGrader: Studio Media Comment Screen Capture and Auto Captioning

Feature Options

• New Quizzes: Default to New Quizzes Feature Option Renamed
• New Quizzes: Export New Quizzes Using Common Cartridge
• New Quizzes: Sub-Account Bank Sharing
• New Quizzes: Outcome Alignment Sub-Account Bank Sharing and Additional Context

Other Updates

• Assignments: Enforcement of LTI Deep Linking Line Items
• Developer Keys: Removal of Submission_Type_Selection
• New Quizzes: Enforcement of New Quizzes Migration During Course Import/Copy Feature Option [Delayed as of 2024-06-05]

Platform/Integration

• External Apps: Lucid Integration

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[Sylvia_Ami]

Could you please provide more details for: Enforcement of New Quizzes Migration During Course Import/Copy Feature Option?  The summary it says, "...enforced for all Canvas institutions when New Quizzes is enabled." Where is Canvas looking to determine "enabled?"

• If New Quizzes is enabled/unlocked at the account and subaccount levels, then disabled at the course level, what happens?
• If New Quizzes is disabled/unlocked at the account and subaccount levels, but enabled at the course level, what happens?

[Susan27]

Hi, I completely agree with your request for more details.

A colleague and I have different interpretations of the change: Does it migrate to New Quizzes (NQ) by default, or does the option "Import existing quizzes as New Quizzes" appear by default during a course import/copy?

Additionally, I do not fully understand why Instructure chose to merge the features "New Quizzes Migration During Course Import/Copy" with "New Quizzes" instead of merging it with the "Default to New Quizzes/Disable Classic Quiz Creation" option. An combination of the latter two features would have seemed more logical to me since turning off the creation of classic quizzes implies that you want to move fully to New Quizzes in the shorter term.

Finally, We can't see the "Default to New Quizzes/Disable Classic Quiz Creation" name change in our Beta-environment, even though the release notes state it should have been implemented there on May 10th.

[LizAllgood]

We are also looking for clarification on this so we can communicate out to our faculty.
Also I'm wondering if a sunset date has been announced for classic quizzes. I know previously it was announced for this summer and then lifted, but it seems as if this is moving toward sunsetting classic quizzes if we are being forced into migrating.

[LizAllgood]

Hello,

My colleague, Michael Kuznicki, figured out that they're meaning this feature option (image (4)) attached.

It just forces the option for new quizzes to be on the course import page. Like this on beta (screenshot) attached.

[venitk]

Thank you to you and your colleague. 

Canvas team, it would be far more convenient for the administrators of the University of Wisconsin System digital learning environment (in the meeting I was in, at least) if this checkbox was not an option for our faculty. We have that turned off intentionally, and we would like to retain the ability to have that button turned off. It's too late for us to disable NQ, but we don't want faculty to have the option to check that box. 

[Sylvia_Ami]

I was expecting to see Checkpoints for the Discussion Redesign in this new release. The 1st item in the Canvas Product Roadmap for Q2 2024 states, "Students engage in deeper, more meaningful discussion with classmates with clear checkpoints to guide their way." Is this delayed? If so, is there a new timeline?

I know several other people were expecting Checkpoints as well: @mwolfenstein @ProfessorBeyrer 

[ProfessorBeyrer]

Thanks @Sylvia_Ami for catching that. If the Q2 timeline is kept and it's not mentioned in the 06-15 release notes, maybe it will be a yet-to-be-announced deploy. According to the release calendar, there will be deploy notes published this Friday and twice in June (7 and 21).

[mwolfenstein]

Wow, thanks for catching this one. I'm hoping @ProfessorBeyrer's speculation about a Friday update will play out, and I know we've seen some product features slip through that haven't been in the regular release notes we've been accustomed to in the past. Speaking for my faculty here at El Camino, like most of the colleges in our system our summer sessions will already be underway so the utility of having the feature in late June will really be to start testing it out. If there's going to be a delay, we definitely need a definitive date on that and frankly, for us (and I think I speak for campuses across our system on this one) it absolutely needs to be in place before August so there's time for us to plan and effectively support faculty going into the Fall 2024 term.

[venitk]

What exactly does Enforcement of New Quizzes Migration During Course Import/Copy Feature Option do?

Will that make the box to migrate a course's quizzes to NQ appear by default when someone is copying a course? The University of Wisconsin System decided to keep this box turned off because New Quizzes is not working well for our courses/instructors/admin. If we are forced to have that box appear during the course copy process, it will not be more convenient for us. I'm having trouble seeing the possible upside of this feature for an institution that has decided to turn it off. Why are you enforcing this feature?

Please clarify what enforcing this feature does. We are currently in between CSMs, so I'm not sure who to bring my concerns to.

[stimme]

The way I am interpreting "The New Quizzes Migration During Course Import/Copy feature option is removed and enforced for all Canvas institutions when New Quizzes is enabled" is that the checkbox will appear in the course import tool if New Quizzes is enabled in the course. New Quizzes itself will still be a feature option with all the possibilities of enabling & locking, but there won't be a separate feature option for the checkbox.

Perhaps, @MPioRoda could confirm that this is what will occur and speak to the questions about aims raised above. Alternately, we could post these questions in the New Quizzes Hub.

[cdoherty]

How can New Quizzes Migration be enforced in any way when it's still so buggy and missing so many important functions? It still can't even import embedded media links.

[mbmacdonald]

I tested the screen capture media comments in beta and it worked! Once you click the "Start Recording" button, the recording controls pop-up window goes away, so you won't have the infinitely nested screen capture (well, you will for a moment at the very beginning of the recording). I did notice that the video quality was quite low. My use case was to narrate comments while annotating a student's submitted work (in the speedgrader window itself), but in the final recording video, the resolution was so low that the viewer would not be able to read the text  

[Karl_McGuirk]

Hi,

This is regarding SpeedGrader: Studio Media Comment Screen Capture and Auto Captioning. I've been testing this feature in beta for the last two weeks and the auto-captions have not been generating. When I hover over the closed captioning option in the media comment, the only options I see are 'None' and 'Upload subtitles'. I have been testing this in Chrome and Firefox, both with the same issue.

Kind regards,

Karl

[Daniel_OConnor]

As excited as our team is, for the release of Speedgrader's studio media screen capture and auto-captioning, we are curious about two things:

1. Will this feature be available to all Canvas clients, or will this require an additional add-on?

2. Can the screen capture feedback submitted for one student, be saved/archived with the intention of creating a library of tutorial videos for students?