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Faculty Drop-in Sessions for Canvas, Cidilabs, & Digital Accessibility

January 09, 2026

With two weeks till spring term, we are offering a series of course prep drop-in sessions over Zoom. Canvas and more: getting the most out of Canvas and our suite of instructional tools. Tuesday, January 13: 1 PM Wednesday, January 21: 11 AM Cidilabs...

New UDOIT accessibility scoring system

December 04, 2025

After discussion within the digital accessibility working group, we have arrived at new scoring settings for the accessibility tool UDOIT on residential Canvas. The UDOIT tool provides Canvas sites with a percentage score rating digital accessibility...

Updated Canvas Course Conclusion Policy

October 21, 2025

The Canvas Course Conclusion Policy has been updated! FAQs have been added to address some common questions we have received since releasing the policy in April. This should hopefully help clarify the effect of the policy. The conclusion date for an...

New Canvas Feature: Differentiation Tags

September 12, 2025

A powerful new Canvas feature is available as an alternative means of creating sets of students: Differentiation Tags. This new feature sits alongside Sections and Groups with its most unique feature being that the created sets are hidden from students...

Resource: Canvas, Course Materials, and Digital Accessibility Training Video

August 25, 2025

A new resource has been posted: Canvas, Course Materials, and Digital Accessibility Training Video. This is aimed at TA/TFs but is entirely applicable and useful for all faculty and staff using Canvas. Highly recommended!

Harmonize releases Peer Review feature

August 22, 2025

Harmonize, a tool preinstalled in all of our Canvas sites, has released an excellent peer review assignment feature. We recommend using this instead of Canvas's own peer review feature. Find out more here: Create a Peer Review Assignment – Harmonize And...

Resource: Email Accessibility

August 07, 2025

A short guide to creating accessible emails in Outlook has been uploaded to the resource section: Email Accessibility in Outlook | Instructional Technology @ GSE IT

Canvas Course Conclusion Policy

April 09, 2025

Effective now, we operate a widely used Canvas feature that changes degree program course sites to a read-only status for staff and students at the end of the academic year. This process is called "course conclusion". Please refer to the policy document...

HGSE Guide to Digitally Accessible Live Events

March 27, 2025

A new resource has been uploaded: a guide to accessible live events created by Harvard Digital Accessibility Services.

Digital Accessibility Working Group - First Meeting

March 24, 2025

The new HGSE Digital Accessibility Working Group met on March 3. The working group will drive the school's efforts to comply with Harvard and federal digital accessibility policies. If you would like a copy of the meeting minutes, or would like more...

New Login Procedure for Harvard Guest (formerly HarvardKey Light) users

March 04, 2025

Harvard Guest (formerly HarvardKey Light) users are no longer able to log into the default HarvardKey login screen at https://canvas.harvard.edu. Harvard Guests must go to this specific URL to log in: https://guest.canvas.harvard.edu/.

New Support Site Launched!

February 16, 2025

Welcome to our completely refreshed instructional technology support site! We will be updating this site regularly with more support articles, FAQs, updates on new or altered functionality (in our "Announcements'). We'd love to hear your thoughts and...