What's New In Canvas In-Person
What's New in Canvas
Stay up to date with the latest Canvas features designed to enhance teaching, improve student engagement, streamline grading, strengthen accessibility, and support student success. This session provides an overview of recent Canvas improvements and practical ways instructors can apply new tools and workflows in their courses.
Topics Covered
- Discussion Checkpoints for improved student participation
- Assignment submission and workflow enhancements
- SpeedGrader performance and feedback improvements
- New Quizzes updates and expanded feedback options
- Accessibility Reporting and remediation tools
- AI-powered translation enhancements for course communication
- Turnitin LTI 1.3 transition and new integration features
- Student experience improvements and course navigation updates
- Teaching efficiency tools and grading workflow enhancements
- Recent Canvas feature releases and best practices
Participants are encouraged to explore these updates in a Sandbox course and identify opportunities to apply them in their own teaching.
Please join your workshop or open lab here: Zoom Session Link
- Date:
- Friday, August 21, 2026
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 2:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Campus:
- Boca Raton
- Audience:
- Instructors Staff
- Categories:
- Online Canvas
Donnell is a Training Coordinator within the Office of Information Technology.
Specializing in LMS support for Canvas, he currently serves on the Instructional Technologies team, providing course migration assistance and collaborative training consultations to faculty and staff members of the FAU community.
One on One Appointments:
Booking a one on one appointment allows you to customize your training to fit your learning AND teaching styles, pace, and course needs. Please try to book your appointment 24-48 hour in advance if possible. Time slots fill up quickly! Group appointments are also available.
Things to Keep in Mind before your appointment:
*Please complete the registration form with as much detail as possible.
*If you will be adding materials to your Canvas course, please bring them with you on a USB drive.
*If you intend to work from your laptop, please make sure to bring it with you.
* RELAX. Don't Stress :) We LOVE questions here. Please feel free to provide Donnell with a list of questions or concerns prior to our meeting and he'll be happy to address them during your time together.
Appointment Locations:
Most one on one appointments can be held in Donnell's office, located in Building CM 22, Room 240. If necessary, other locations can be arranged.
Cancelations:
If you need to cancel please do so as soon as possible.
We are the Learning Management System Support and Training team. Our mission is to provide outstanding, accessible, and high quality information, service, hardware and software in support of Instructional Technologies such as FAU's Learning Management SYstem, virtual and physical learning space technologies, and collaboration services for faculty, staff, and students.
