Canvas News - Export/Import Tutorial, the Brand New iPad App and Speed Grader on your iPad!

1. For your Canvas site, our refreshing rosters, the ongoing updates in the background, and the Sept. 1 date, I thought it best to show you how to backup your Canvas site.  To do this, I've created this PDF as a guide through the export process.  It will also get you through most of the import process (I grew tentative as I did not want it to override the content already on my site).  This will backup all your content, including assignments and quizzes, and allow you to upload/import it at any time.

2. Canvas released today their new iPhone app (not iPad - it works on the iPad, but it is not native to it so appears as if on an iPhone).  It is an incredible improvement over the previous version.  The problem is you need to go this iTunes link and it will download the app (as if it is a completely different app).  It will use the information from the old app (so you won't have to sign in again), but you will want to delete the old one after you've downloaded version 2.0.  Here are some photos of the icons so you know the difference:

Old version =   New version =     

3. If you want to use the Speed Grader feature from Instructure on your iPad, click here to download the iPad app (I do not know, as I just downloaded tonight version 2.0 of the Canvas app, if the updated app includes the Speed Grader features).