All Webex meetings scheduled after June 2, 2019 will have some exciting new features available including unlimited recording storage and unlimited toll conference calls!

Turnitin is experiencing issues with viewing similarity reports and accepting submissions at this time. Turnitin engineers are actively looking into the problem.

Update: this issue has been resolved.

There was a brief Canvas outage on April 28 beginning at 7:55 p.m. through 8:10 p.m. During this time, Canvas was slow or non-responsive while technicians from Instructure worked to resolve this problem.

On Monday, May 20, Instructure released a new gradebook for Canvas that will have many new features. Although many of the core gradebook features will remain the same, some functions will move to a different location or change the look of the icons.

Please note that users of Turnitin may have been unable to make/view submissions and experienced delays to Similarity Report generation, as a result of a service outage that lasted from 4/7/2019 at 10:00pm until 4/8/2019 at 5:20am. The situation has been resolved.

Canvas now includes an option to view all course tasks in a List View for students. In addition to displaying automatically populated items from assignments, the List View allows instructors and students to add non-graded items to the To-Do list.

Turnitin is currently experiencing a service outage. We will provide an update once things are back to normal.

Update: The Turnitin outage has been resolved. It lasted from 9:50am on 2/15/2019 until 1:10am on 2/16/2019.

New features are added to Respondus Monitor almost monthly. Features added in February include facial detection before the exam, facial detection alerts during an exam, and pre-exam tips for a successful exam session.

Kaltura Capture is the newest product for personal video capture at Baylor, and is available now in Canvas and MediaSpace. To get started, visit the My Media page and click Add New then Create Media.

We have a new tool available for use within Canvas called Bongo. Curious? Read all about it and see examples!

The WebEx interface in Canvas will be updated on December 30, 2018. There may be some downtime to the platform as it updates.

Turnitin is currently experiencing a service degradation which is being investigated. We will post an update once it has been resolved.

Resolved at 11:33am on 12/7/18.

Some Canvas users in the US region are seeing page errors while trying to submit assignments.

Users are receiving page errors when trying to submit or upload files.

Turnitin users are continuing to experiencing slow submission/report generation times and some users may be unable to submit larger files. Turnitin engineers are working hard to resolve this for all our users.

Turnitin will be performing maintenance on their systems and will have an outage on Saturday, 9/22/18. It will begin at 10:00am and last until 6:30pm.

Users will be unable to submit and grade during this maintenance window, so please ensure that any submission deadlines are adjusted to fall outside of the window.

Users at Baylor were unable to access Canvas between 6:52pm and 7:13pm CST on 8/28/18.

In addition, Turnitin experienced a service disruption throughout the evening of 8/28/18.

All issues have been resolved.

Users of the Turnitin service may encounter intermittent issues getting reports and accessing existing submissions. Turnitin is investigating this issue as a priority.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Thanks for your patience.

Maintenance will be performed on the network during the window of 6:00pm - 10:00pm on Thursday, August 23. During this time access to Baylor's datacenter may experience a brief disruption (projected at 5 minutes or less) and users may be unable to login to Canvas.

Baylor's single sign-on system was unavailable for roughly 45 minutes on the evening of 8/20/18. This caused Canvas and many other campus systems to be unreachable.

Read about several major enhancements to the Respondus Monitor dashboard that will become available on July 31st.

Meet your new Webex Meetings desktop app and user experience inspired by how people collaborate. Experience modern meetings that are more intuitive, more personal, and offer more control.

Cidi Labs Design Tools was developed to take away the heavy lifting of making your Canvas course look great in the fraction of the time. With Design Tools, you can easily customize the visual appeal and organizational elements of content presented on your homepage, content pages, assignments, the course syllabus, discussion board descriptions, and quiz descriptions.

Turnitin services will be unavailable on July 10, 2018.

Maintenance will be performed on Thursday, June 28 from 6:30 p.m. until midnight to upgrade network connections to one of Baylor’s internet providers. During this time access to Baylor's datacenter may experience a brief disruption and users may be unable to login to Canvas.

On June 19, Canvas will begin using a new plagiarism framework for TurnItIn. The Canvas Plagiarism Framework allows third-party plagiarism services to integrate with Canvas in the most seamless way possible. Existing assignments may need to be modified or recreated if TurnItIn is to be used.