Customizable Dashboard for Students

Students can now choose to enable the new Dashboard view and customize their dashboard with widgets. Widget options include:

1. Centralized Coursework Widget: View all assignments from every course in one list
2. Filtering: Sort tasks by course or status (e.g., “Missing” or “Upcoming”)
3. Direct-to-Task Access: Open assignments or quizzes directly from the dashboard
4. Updated To-Do List: See upcoming deadlines and required tasks
5. Instant Grades Widget: Check overall course grades at a glance
6. Recent Grades & Feedback: View teacher comments and scores without opening each course
7. People Widget: Find and message instructors quickly
8. Announcements Feed: New design for familiar announcements feature

Widgets can be added, removed, and rearranged.

If the video below isn’t playing correctly, click here to open it in a new window →

Automated Captions and Interactive Transcripts

Improvements to the Canvas Media experience include:

• Automatically generated captions for supported video and audio media
• Option to upload caption files
• Interactive rolling transcript that syncs with video playback
• Transcript editing within Canvas
• Player layout options to support different viewing and transcript display configurations
• Expanded full screen playback for media
• Viewer restriction to control transcript visibility
• Click-to-jump navigation to specific timestamps
• Search functionality within the transcript
• Support for multiple caption languages

Notable improvements for students:

• Search for key terms in the transcript.
• Click transcript text to jump to specific moments in the video.
• Follow along with highlighted text as the video plays.

If the video below isn’t playing correctly, click here to open it in a new window →

View our knowledge base (how-to's and FAQs) →

View all teaching and learning resources →

Canvas Resources for Instructors →