Welcome to Summer 2026!

Posted: 2026-05-18 11:31:56 Expiration: 2026-09-01 11:31:56

Summer 2026 first-session courses are now available in Canvas. Classes beginning in a later session will be available 50 days before the class start date.

If you’re new to teaching in our Canvas system, please review our Teacher’s Beginning of Course Checklist. Complete these steps before your course begins. (And remember to review our Teacher’s End of Course Checklist later on!)

Digital Accessibility

Thank you for ensuring your courses are digitally accessible!

Please scan your course with UDOIT to identify and correct accessibility issues. Enroll in our Digital Accessibility Training for Instructors for more information.

screenshot of digital accessibility — Our Digital Accessibility Training for Instructors course will teach you about digital accessibility, our compliance requirements, and how to create accessible content for Canvas.

Updates This Semester

There are also some changes in Canvas you should know about.

Enhanced Rubrics

We’ve enabled a new version of the Rubrics tool in Canvas that includes:

Updated design, including a Create New Rubric button, replacing the Add Rubric button, and multiple rubric preview and SpeedGrader views (Traditional, Horizontal, Vertical).
New rubric creation and management features, so instructors can create draft rubrics, duplicate or archive rubrics, and copy rubrics to other courses. You can also easily export and import rubrics using CSV spreadsheets.
Improved responsive views in SpeedGrader to make grading easier on smaller screens.
New rubric editing features, including drag-and-drop functionality to more easily reorder criteria.

Remember to check the “use this rubric for assignment grading” checkbox if you want student scores to be calculated automatically.

screenshot of Enhanced Rubrics — Enhanced Rubrics tool in Canvas

Canvas Portfolio

We’ve enabled the new Canvas Portfolio tool, which replaces ePortfolio (which will be permanently disabled on June 30, 2026). If you need to preserve any data in ePortfolio, please download it now, and add it into the new Canvas Portfolios tool:

How do I download the contents of my Canvas native ePortfolio?

Canvas Portfolios features a new design as well as features like:

evidence and skills tagging
external portfolio sharing and more export options
two different types of portfolios:
- Evaluation Portfolios, to support structured assessment, including templated portfolio requirements used in multiple courses
- Showcase Portfolios, managed by students so they can highlight aspects of their learning experience

For more information, visit the Canvas Showcase Portfolio Guide.

Canvas Outcomes

Do you teach courses that are part of a Graduate program? The Graduate Learning Goals are now available in the Canvas Outcomes tool, if you'd like to use them in your course rubrics. For more information, visit How to Use Canvas Outcomes to Assess Student Learning.

screenshot of the Find Outcomes window in Canvas — You can import institutional outcomes into your course.

Need Help?

Please email canvas@uwsuper.edu.

-- UW Superior: Michael Merline