March 28, 2020 Canvas Ready Release Updates

March 27, 2020

Starting March 28, 2020, Instructure will deploy a set of “Ready Releases” to Canvas. To provide more immediate support for instructors teaching online, Ready Releases introduce new and updated features or adjusted user functionality every week. This is temporary and in-response to COVID-19 so instructors and institutions can receive changes faster than regularly-scheduled monthly updates from Instructure.

Upcoming Changes 

  • Mobile App QR Log-In for Students
  • Blueprint Association Course Publishing (Administrators Only)

Mobile App QR Log-In for Students

Summary

Students can use a QR code to log in to the Canvas Student App.

Change Benefit

This change helps students more easily log in to the Canvas Student App without having to know their institution’s Canvas URL.

To take advantage of this feature, students will need to use the latest Canvas Student app for Android and the Canvas Student app for iPhone/iPad.

Blueprint Association Course Publishing (Administrators Only)

Summary

Courses associated with a Blueprint course can be published as part of the initial Blueprint sync.

Change Benefit

This change allows admins to choose if they want to publish all associated courses as part of the sync process.

Additional changes

A number of language changes and bug fixes are also being released in this update. Review the Canvas deploy notes to learn more about these changes.

Learn more 

To learn more about this Canvas update, and to see how the changes may affect instructors’ and students’ work, refer to the audience-specific release note links.