Canvas instructors,
Here are a few new items to pass along:
1. Canvas has a new Accessibility Checker in the Rich Content Editor. It will check common accessibility errors within the editor so your content will be ADA-compliant. It also provides explanations of errors and allows you to fix those errors. It will NOT check your Word or PowerPoint files, nor will it check that videos are captioned. Learn more about the Accessibility Checker.
2. Canvas is supposed to add a new LPC faculty support phone number in the Help menu. The current number will remain, but it will just be for students.
3. Canvas is working on fixing a couple of minor errors in the Rich Content Editor:
a. When users embed a file in a Canvas object (e.g. a page, the description of an assignment or quiz, etc.) and selected the 'auto-open inline preview' or 'disable inline preview' options, these are not working as they should. When users click on the link that is created to the file, they are taken to their personal Files page to preview the file. This means they must navigate back to their course after they close the preview. Also, there is no icon next to the file name to indicate that a preview is available.
b. A separate issue affects images uploaded from the content selector on the right side of the page when editing content in the Rich Content Editor. When a user adds an image using the "Images" tab in the content selector, no thumbnail of the image is embedded, nor does it appear in the content selector as having been uploaded and available for selection. Only the title of the image appears. Users must upload images via the "Insert Image" icon, directly within the Rich Content Editor or refresh the page after uploading from the content selector for the images to embed properly.
Scott
Keep up with new Canvas features and tools by reading the Canvas Release Notes at https://community.canvaslms.com/community/answers/releases/
