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12/6/2023 – Calendar and New Quizzes

Calendar – Instructors can create and edit duplicate events for different sections of a course. This feature allows duplicating single events; not creating recurring events. New Quizzes – When a course with New Quizzes is copied, the item bank is automatically shared with the new course. View the Canvas Release Notes for more update details.

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11/15/2023 – New Quizzes

New Quizzes – Instructors can: New Quizzes – Instructors can: Enable Anonymous Grading, helping to reduce the perception of bias for manually-graded questions. Duplicate Item banks, which allows for sharing Item banks and modifications that will not impact the original. View the Canvas Release Notes for more update details.

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Faculty – Simple Syllabus Now in Webcourses!

Beginning Friday, November 24th for the Spring 2024 semester, faculty teaching a (black diamond) GEP Core course will be required to have their syllabus posted and marked for “General Public” visibility in Webcourses@UCF using Simple Syllabus. To help facilitate this change, the (black diamond) GEP Core courses will be auto-selected to be sent to Webcourses@UCF on Thursday, November 9th to provide faculty of these courses …

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Webcourses@UCF (Canvas) Mobile Apps Survey

Canvas wants to know what you would like to see in future releases of the Student and Teacher mobile apps. UCF’s students and teachers have been invited to take part in a short, anonymous survey to help the Canvas Mobile Team with feature prioritization for upcoming releases to the mobile apps. >> Take the Survey <<

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9/16/2023 – Pages, Outcomes, Gradebook, and New Quizzes

The September 16th Canvas update includes several new features worth sharing: 1. Pages – When you change the title to a page, all links to that page are automatically updated in the course 2. Outcomes – The Decaying Average calculation has been updated. The original Decaying Average calculation has been renamed Weighted Average. 3. Gradebook – …

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8/19/2023 – Cutomizable Gradebook Filters, New Quizzes Bulk Migration, and More

1. Improved Outcomes Management – This new feature allows instructors to view outcome alignments quickly and easily from the Options icon. 2. Enhanced Gradebook Filter – This updated feature allows instructors to create custom filter presets, for a more efficient way to organize and sort their gradebook. 3. Edit Course Link Sidebar – When editing a course …

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Students – Webcourses’ Grades Page May Help You with Your Withdrawal Deadline Decisions

The withdrawal deadline for Fall 2023 is Friday, October 27th at 11:59 PM The “Grades” link located in most of your courses can assist you with an at-a-glance overview of your assignments and grades to date. With the “What if” feature you can estimate a possible score for your course. For more information on the “What if” feature, …

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Webcourses@UCF Support Satisfaction Survey

The Center for Distributed Learning continuously strives to improve the quality of services provided by the Webcourses@UCF Support team. With this short survey, our goal is to evaluate and improve the quality of our support services. Your responses to this survey on what worked well and what needs improvement can help us determine how we can …

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