Attention Canvas Instructors,

As we launch the first term delivered fully on Canvas, we have a number of important updates across the Digital Learning Environment for instructors to be aware of.

A number of important new features are now available in Canvas:

• Differentiation Tags: Instructors can now group their students into functional units that can be used to filter the gradebook, student lists, and provide a mechanism to provide different due dates

Attention ExamLock Users,

Please be advised that the ExamLock service will be decommissioned on December 31st, 2025.

With the transition to Canvas, the UofA has selected Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor as our new remote exam security and monitoring application to replace ExamLock. Instructors using Canvas will need to switch to this new application when delivering remote exams. 

Since eClass has entered a read-only state, there should be no active exams being delivered on eClass

UPDATE: This outage has been rescheduled to Saturday, August 23rd from 2:00AM - 3:00AM.


Attention eClass users,

There will be a brief maintenance outage for eClass on Thursday, August 21st 2025 from 10:00PM - 11:00PM (1 hour). This outage is required to apply infrastructure changes to eClass.

eClass will be unavailable for the duration of the maintenance window. If you have any questions about this outage, please contact us at eclass@ualberta.ca.

Regards,
IST eClass

Attention ePoll Users,

Please be advised that the ePoll service will be decommissioned on December 31st, 2025.

The UofA has selected Wooclap as our new polling and student response system to replace ePoll. All ePoll users are encouraged to transition to this new platform. Unfortunately, there is no mechanism to migrate existing questions from ePoll into Wooclap but the new service does have the ability to automatically generate questions from a number of sources including the ability to

Attention eClass and Canvas Users,

This news post contains important information for a number of Digital Learning Environment improvements that will be introduced over the summer. 

eClass End of Life

eClass received its final update prior to Summer 2025, the final term for active credit courses on the system. At the end of the summer 2025 term, a number of changes will be made to the service as it enters a read-only state:

• Course creation for eClass will no longer be available.
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