2D - Moving to the Canvas LMS - What You Need to Know - Spring 2021 IT Pro Forum
From ITPF Zoom4
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Our current LMS, Compass2g/Blackboard will be retired by June 30, 2022. A new system, Canvas, used by 12 (now 13) of the 15 schools in the Big Ten Academic Alliance is being deployed for use in Fall 2021. The project is a combined effort between Technology Services, CITL, and the colleges. The Canvas environment will be SaaS and include 24x7 Tier 1 support from Canvas for our students, faculty, and staff. In our session we will cover the components of the Canvas project, including details on training, migration, and support. We will also discuss how Canvas will be used as the foundation to build future online learning opportunities. We will include time to ask questions and cover how this change may impact you and your customers.
Learning Outcome: Attendees will understand the Canvas project and how it may impact them.
The morning of Wednesday 8 January, we updated the look and feel of Kaltura videos by moving from Player 2 to Player 7. The new player has a cleaner look, some improvements to controls, and a new transcript viewer. Also thanks to the upgrade we can now allow owners and co-editors of videos with two feeds to download *both* recordings from the mediaspace website.
As of the upgrade and going forward all videos play on mediaspace in the new player. Also since the upgrade any video you embed in Canvas or elsewhere, with the built-in tools in Canvas or the embed code from mediaspace, will play with the new player. However, any videos embedded anywhere before the update will continue to play in Player 2.
To take advantage of the new player, and use a fully-supported player, we urge you to re-embed videos in Canvas or elsewhere, retracing the steps you took the first time.
For more information on updating your links to take advantage of the new player: https://answers.uillinois.edu/illinois/146970 For more information on viewing media with the new player: https://answers.uillinois.edu/illinois/146972