Canvas Release Notes for October 6, 2018

Penn State is committed to continually enhancing the Canvas user experience. Every three weeks, we will post Canvas release notes, which include production notes on features and updates. These are some highlights of the new and updated features and bug fixes releasing on October 6.  

For full details, see the complete release note list by Instructure or watch the Canvas New Feature Screencast. Instructure will send the next set of Canvas release notes on October 22.   

Updated Features  

DocViewer 

Document Rotation 

This feature allows instructors and students to manually rotate images and documents to fix files uploaded with a different image orientation. 

Dashboard 

List View Dashboard Dismissed Alerts 

Students who have their dashboards set to list view now have a tab to view previously dismissed alerts.