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Canvas deadline will hurt students’ school-life balance

Canvas deadline will hurt students’ school-life balance

Nate Hunt, Opinion Editor November 14, 2024

Murray State wants to help us by changing our due date times but didn’t consider asking faculty or students how they felt about this. By the winter...

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The default due date will change to 5 p.m. on Canvas for the winter term, but professors can edit the time in the ‘assign access’ box.

Assignment due times may move to 5 p.m.

Ania Boutin, News Editor November 14, 2024

Students’ Canvas assignments could soon be due at 5 p.m., rather than 11:59 p.m. While midnight has been the default due time for assignments since 2013,...

Canvas adds feature to include pronouns

Canvas adds feature to include pronouns

October 14, 2020

Sarah Mead Staff Writer [email protected] Canvas now allows students and faculty to select personal pronouns on their user accounts to promote inclusion. “It...

MyGate password requirements updated

MyGate password requirements updated

October 7, 2020

Sarah Mead Staff Writer [email protected] Beginning Oct. 19, new password requirements are mandatory for all Murray State myGate accounts. The...

Canvas chaos: some professors refrain from putting in grades

Canvas chaos: some professors refrain from putting in grades

December 11, 2019

Many professors do not use Canvas, and it creates unnecessary stress for students. As the semester draws to a close, finals week isn’t the only disaster...

New Canvas feature coming in spring

New Canvas feature coming in spring

November 6, 2016

Story by Matthew Parks, Staff writer Next semester, Murray State will be unveiling a new function on Canvas known as SIPX, coordinated through the University...

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