Impact Release Notes (2024-10-08)

InstContentTeam

This Impact release includes new content for Canvas users and updated accessibility features for LTI Tools.

Impact helps institutions improve technology adoption and evaluate the impact of educational technology, while helping faculty and students seamlessly navigate new platforms. Learn more about Impact by Instructure.

New Content

 

Canvas

Campaigns: Mental Wellness

Template Preview	Empowering Students’ Emotional Intelligence with Canvas Mental Wellness Activities (Instructors) Mental Wellness Awareness (Students)
Blog	Using Impact to Improve Mental Wellness

In honor of the Instructor’s new Mental Wellness page, being released October 10th, Impact has a suite of Out of the Box campaigns to raise awareness about and support mental health and wellbeing in the learning experience.

 

Contexts

The following new contexts are created on the Assign To feature on the following pages:

• Pages page
• Assignment pages
• Modules page

 

Other Updates

 

Accessibility

LTI Tools

The following are accessibility improvements to LTI Tools:

• When toggling the LTI Group show/hide buttons, the page displays appropriately and the screen reader announces the button as intended.
• In the LTI Tools table, the Move selected and Edit selected menus in a disabled state until at least one checkbox is checked.

 

Fixed Bugs

 

• When creating a custom user group, after a selection is changed/done in the conditions dropdown, the screen reader focus remains in the dropdown until moved.
• The Conditions and Custom User Group Preview headings are labeled as H3s.