The Center for Distributed Learning frequently releases significant updates and announcement within Webcourses@UCF for both faculty and students.
Announcements are focused on enhancing the teaching and learning experience, as well as optimizing the tools available within the system.
Additionally, we offer a roadmap that outlines both past and upcoming features and updates planned for the future. This roadmap enables both faculty and students to anticipate changes and prepare for them accordingly.
Retention of Alerts
Announcements and updates for Webcourses@UCF are only available for the current semester.
Webcourses@UCF Announcements
Stay up-to-date with the latest announcements posted within Webcourses@UCF. To make it easier for you to access these announcements, we have compiled an archive of them below. Additionally, you can always stay informed about the current status of Webcourses@UCF by visiting UCF’s Status Dashboard page.
Check back often to stay informed and get the most out of your time on Webcourses@UCF.
For Students
View All Student Announcements
Students – Important Things for Your Spring 2025 Classes in Webcourses@UCF
Urgent UCF Alert Update on Our Return to Normal Operations [Update: 10/11/2024]
Urgent UCF Alert Hurricane Milton: UCF Closed Today Through Friday [Updated: 10/8/2024]
Urgent UCF Alert – UCF to Close Tuesday Through Thursday Due to Hurricane Milton
UCF Alert – Classes and Operations to Resume Friday, Sept. 27
UCF Alert UCF to Suspend Operations and Classes Thursday in Anticipation of Tropical Storm Helene
UCF Cares About Your Well-Being
Students – Important Things for Your Fall 2024 Classes in Webcourses@UCF
For Faculty
View All Faculty Announcements
Attention Faculty: Some Students May Not Have Seen Assignments [Updated]
Attention Faculty: Some Students May Not Have Seen Assignments
Honorlock Service Outage
Faculty – Important Things for Your Spring 2025 Classes in Webcourses@UCF
Faculty – Simple Syllabus Changes Coming with the Spring 2025 Semester
Faculty Survey: Use of GenAI in Teaching and Research
Faculty – Get ahead of the Spring 2025 semester
UDOIT Scheduled Downtime
What’s Changed and What’s Coming in Webcourses@UCF
The posts below are significant updates that have been made to Webcourses@UCF over the past 12 months, and provides a glimpse into upcoming improvements planned for the next quarter.
Please note that upcoming changes are subject to modification as we perform testing. If there is a tool or feature that you would like to test once it becomes available, please reach out to us at webcourses@ucf.edu.
What’s New
01-14-2025 – New Quizzes, Discussions, Speedgrader
12-05-2024 – Announcements, Discussions, Rich Content Editor
10-23-2024 – Discussions, New Quizzes, Announcements
09-10-2024 – Assign To, Discussions, Gradebook
08-02-2024 – Calendar, New Quizzes, Files
07-09-2024 – Assign To’s, Discussions, Announcements
06-18-2024 – Gradebook, New Quizzes, Pronunciations
02/19/2024 – Calendar, Grades and New Quizzes
On the Roadmap
Q1 2025 Roadmap Objectives
Q4 2024 Roadmap Objectives
Q3 2024 Roadmap Objectives
Q2 2024 Roadmap Objectives
Q1 2024 Roadmap Objectives
Q1 2024 Roadmap Objectives
Q4 2023 Roadmap Objectives
Q3 2023 Roadmap Objectives
Impact Messages
Below is an archive of student and faculty Impact messages that have been posted within Canvas. Impact messages are set to run in Canvas for a specified period of time and are presented in one of three ways: hint (tied to an element), pop-up (overlay on the page), or systray (bottom right corner of the page). This section will serve as a long-term repository for Impact messages that are no longer accessible in Canvas.
For Students
View All Student Impact Messages
Students – Discussions/Announcements Redesign is Here
For Faculty
View All Faculty Impact Messages