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The U.S. Department of Justice released a new rule that updates regulations for Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The updates set and, as of April 24 2026, require public universities of our size to meet, accessibility standards for digital content including course content regardless of whether the content is behind a login or a student with disabilities is enrolled in the course.
Faculty can leverage several tools within Canvas to assess the accessibility of their course content and find guidance on how to fix common issues. For more difficult questions or issues, connect with the OSU Digital Accessibility Community on Microsoft Teams.
There have been several significant updates to Canvas over the summer. Here are the highlights:
New “Assign To” functionality for Modules and Pages! Instructors can now assign modules and pages to specific sections or students.
Discussions: the Canvas Discussion interface has a new look and added functionality including:
Learn more about these new features, the updated interface, and more through Canvas Discussions documentation.
Some things to check as you set up your new discussions for fall term:
Announcements: Canvas Announcements are a special type of ‘discussion’ in Canvas and some aspects of Canvas Announcements were updated alongside Discussions. Some notable Announcement changes:
Learn more about these new features, the updated interface, and more through Canvas Announcements documentation.
SpeedGrader screen recording: While using SpeedGrader, instructors now have the option to record the browser tab, window, or entire screen when creating a feedback video for the student’s submitted work. Learn more about Canvas SpeedGrader video recordings.
The OSU “Studio site” tool has been updated and renamed “Sandbox site” tool. The updated tool has all original functionality and now also allows a Sandbox site owner to update the Sandbox site name, bulk delete Sandbox sites, and view details about Sandbox sites. For more information and instructions review the following articles:
Perusall has been updated! Whether you've used Perusall previously in Canvas or are new to Perusall, learn more about getting started with the updated Perusall integration in Canvas.
OSU’s enterprise student response system in AY 2024-25
Top Hat now offers instructors Student View for question polling. The new Student View feature allows instructors to launch a presentation (or a question) in a new tab in student view. They can run their questions and presentation in the instructor tab in the browser while observing what students would see in the student tab. Please note that using Student View will make the question polling/presentation live, so students can respond to questions if they happened to be in the Top Hat course.
Do your students give presentations in your course? Consider introducing them to Microsoft Speaker Coach in PowerPoint. Speaker Coach allows anyone to practice a presentation and get AI-generated feedback on pace, pitch, filler words and more.
Kaltura video and audio players are getting an upgrade! Items of note include new transcript functionality including the ability to search transcript text to locate specific sections of the video/audio, new captioning settings including the ability for users to customize caption settings to meet their own needs, and updated player selections to allow content owners to select the player that best fits their needs. The following is a list of player selections for content owners:
Additionally, people can now select “Record Screen” when using the Kaltura Web Recorder tool.
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