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New Feature: Course Archiving
In order to improve the management of courses and the functionality of Canvas, Penn State has developed a process to archive completed courses. NOTE: The suggested method for retaining course material for future use is to keep such material in a Master Course rather...
Canvas Archive Policy
Compliance with the General Retention Schedule To improve the management of Penn State's Learning Management System, Canvas, and to comply with the University's gradebook retention policy, Penn State IT has established an archiving policy affecting all users of...
Enhancements Page
Improving Canvas for Penn State Below is a list of enhncements proposed by faculty, staff and students at Penn State. These enhancements are improvements to existing Penn State built/supported tools in Canvas. This is not a list of enhancements shared with...
Embedded librarian role added to Canvas to support research, instruction
Faculty can now add an embedded librarian into a Canvas course. This is a new role in Canvas that has replaced the former librarian role, and offers added functionality. To learn more about the permissions the embedded librarian role includes, please see Canvas:...
Logout Page
Please Note: Canvas uses Shibboleth and WebAccess to authenticate users and manage sessions. Therefore, the only way to be logged out of Canvas is to terminate your user session by completely quitting your web browser application. This is not unique to Canvas, it is...
