November 2, 2023

Overview

Changes to the Account Settings feature

On December 7, 2023, the limit access by User ID, course ID, course format, and user role settings will be deprecated from the Account Settings tool. Please visit our Admin Guide to learn more.

You may notice that our release for November is smaller than a typical release. This is because we are introducing some fairly significant changes to the sidebar loading process starting in December. Due to the important nature of these changes, we are currently focused on testing and reviewing code before implementation and therefore we are only releasing a few small bug fixes this month. The updated loading process will resolve reliability and performance issues we've seen with new sidebar access.

Other updates and bug fixes we've been working on are bypassing this release; they will be included in a large release in December.

New Resources

DesignPLUS Customization pages added to Canvas Commons - This set of pages shared to Canvas Commons allows DesignPLUS users to import the customization pages necessary to create course-level customizations.
Moving Customizations from Legacy to New Sidebar - Cidi Labs now has a short video series documenting how to move customizations from legacy to new sidebar.

New Features

No new features in the November release.

Updated or Modified Features

No updated or modified features in the November release.

Bug Fixes

External Assets: Identify course files, prevent empty link previews, and equation images

This bug fix updates the External Assets tool in three ways:

Better distinguish between different course links and different course files,
Set the links for all external assets that are flagged in the External Assets tool scan, preventing empty links from rendering in the sidebar.
Stop flagging equation images from the user's own instance in the External Assets tool. Equation image previews will also load properly in the External Assets tool.

Tabs: Mobile layout for vertical tabs

This update provides a fix that allows vertical tabs to consolidate into horizontal tabs when the window size is equivalent to tablet or lower.

Theme & Callout: Color variable corrections

This bug fix addresses a contrast issue with heading icons in the Colored Headings 1 and Colored Headings (Box Left) 1 themes. Also, this addresses a color contrast issue with callout headings for light primary colors as defined in the institutional DesignPLUS CSS.