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On April 14th, the regularly scheduled Long-Term Storage and course deletion processes will occur in Canvas. On May 20, 2025, the course Archiving process will occur, affecting LionPATH courses offered prior to and including Spring 2024 courses. To comply...
The review and opt-out period for the Kaltura: Retention Policy has been extended to April 14th, 2025. This extension provides owners and co-editors of flagged media with extra time to review and opt out, after which the media will be moved to your Kaltura recycle...
Canvas Release Notes are posted to highlight new, updated features, and bug fixes. Full details are available at: Canvas Release Notes for 3/15 New Features Import Content: The Import Content page has been updated to the latest version of InstUI, Instructure's...
On Tuesday, February 25, 2025, Penn State IT will apply an update to the Official Photo Roster in Canvas. This update will add sorting and filtering options to the “Print View” tool within LionPATH courses. Penn State IT performs regular enhancements and updates...
An issue was discovered with the form in Canvas to request a Master or Manually Enrolled Course. Any requests sent through the form between Monday February 3, 2025 at Noon ET and Thursday February 6, 2025 at Noon ET will need to be resubmitted. For additional...
An issue was discovered with Canvas that causes the To Do List in the course sidebar and the List View of the Dashboard to not display all assigned work. In some cases, the list may be incomplete while in other cases it may be accurate. As an alternative,...
An issue was discovered with Kaltura Video Quizzes used in Canvas assignments that caused some scores to fail to be sent back to Canvas successfully. This issue arose due to the update made on January 7, 2025, which upgraded all Kaltura content embedded in Canvas...
Anthology Ally is now available and enabled in all Canvas courses. Ally provides students with alternative formats for course content and helps faculty and instructional designers audit and make digital course content more accessible. Anthology Ally is available...
On January 7, 2025, all Kaltura content embedded in Canvas through LTI will be converted to the new v7 interface. No action is required on your part. This transition will be automatic. For more details about the new player interface, please refer to the following...
Service packs are updates to Canvas released on a regular basis. The next Service Pack deployment will be on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. ET. This update will not affect core Canvas functionality; however, Penn State customizations (items...