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As of Monday, October 20, at 7:10 p.m., access to CarmenCanvas has been restored. The system was unavailable due to the global Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage. Thank you for your patience while the system was down. If you encounter any issues as you once again begin to use CarmenCanvas, please report them to the Learning Systems team at carmen@osu.edu or by calling 614-688-4357 (HELP).
Following an evaluation during summer 2025, the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) awarded the bid to Anthology for an accessibility scanning tool to be integrated with within the CarmenCanvas learning management system (LMS) and other Canvas instances.
OTDI will begin adding an “archived” label to CarmenCanvas courses from previous semesters to help instructors more easily identify current courses that must be made accessible. The “archived” label will be added during autumn break starting the evening of Oct. 15, 2025. All past courses should appear with the “archived” label by Oct. 17.
The Student Evaluation of Instruction (SEI) has been renamed to Survey of Student Learning Experience (SSLE). In keeping with this, the links in the CarmenCanvas course navigation have been updated.
Beginning September 22, YouTube videos embedded in your Canvas courses may begin to display ads. This is due to a change made by YouTube. In response, Instructure (the vendor for CarmenCanvas) will display an overlay message warning users that ads may appear. This message will appear before a video plays and must be clicked through by each user.
The Carmen Files page has been redesigned for greater accessibility, intuitiveness and streamlined usage. This change applies to course files and user files. A temporary toggle allows users to switch between the new and the old interface.
Key updates include:
In Discussions, each reply now includes a copyable permalink allowing users to share a direct link to that specific reply. If the reply is part of a thread, the thread will expand to reveal it.