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Canvas Release Notes for Jun 21, 2025

Canvas Release Notes are posted to highlight new, updated features, and bug fixes. Full details are available at: Canvas Release Notes for 6/21 Upcoming New Features Files: The files page has been redesigned to offer a cleaner, more intuitive interface that...

Canvas: Attention McGraw Hill Connect Users

On June 24th, the McGraw Hill Connect tool in Canvas will be renamed to “McGraw Hill Integration”. The tool will now feature the GO and SIMnet tools. Mcgraw Hill is changing the name to reflect that it now encompasses all 3 tools.  Current users of McGraw Hill...

Important Canvas Accessibility Update

On Wednesday, May 28, 2025 the Canvas team adjusted the Canvas theme colors to improve accessibility.  The team identified an enhancement to the contrast ratio of the current "Primary Brand Color", Link Color", and "Primary Button" colors within Canvas. The current...

Zoom: Maintenance planned Tuesday, May 13th 6am-7am

The Penn State Zoom team will be performing preventive maintenance on Tuesday, May 13th, between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m ET.   There may be a short interruption(<1 min) interruption in authentication during this time.   For additional help, please reach out to the IT...

Prepare final grades to pull from Canvas to LionPATH  

As we approach the end of the spring semester, check out these helpful resources to prepare your final grades for LionPATH:  Create a Penn State compatible grading scheme    Prepare final grades for LionPATH   Import your Canvas Gradebook into LionPATH   Manually...