Be The Hero - New Training Course for Canvas Admins! IMPORTANT NOTE: ALL FUTURE UPDATES ABOUT THIS RESOURCE WILL BE LOCATED HERE: Be The Hero Updates. PLEASE FOLLOW THAT BLOG SPACE! Knowing where to begin as a brand new Canvas Admin can be a huge task. You probabl... 
Canvas Student Scholarship Contest You to the power of education As the makers of Canvas, Instructure believes education is one of the world's most powerful forces for change. This spring we're asking students, "How will a college educatio... 
Managing LTI Course Navigation Visibility The Story A common frustration of teachers using Canvas at an institution is when their course navigation gets messed up by an admin. A teacher may have been teaching their courses for a couple of weeks and then all o... 
Custom Browser Search Engines for Canvas This guide will help you setup searching shortcuts in Chrome and Firefox for finding Canvas users and courses or going directly to them using the canvas ID. Both browsers allow you to use a keyword entered into the ad... 
Batch Uploading Quiz Questions with Respondus Updated: March 1, 2019 Clarified the formatting of "Matching" question types. If you currently create quizzes in Canvas manually (question by question), there is a quicker solution: Respondus 4.0: Exam A... 
Administrative guidelines for managing Inherited Developer Keys There have been some important changes to developer keys (see the 14 Jul 2018 and 10 Oct. 2017 release notes) since my last blog post about what administrators should consider when issuing developer keys. Th... 
Proctoring Partnership Survey The Instructure Partnerships Team is in the process of gathering data that could help guide future partner integration strategy for our proctoring service partners and we'd love to hear from you! If you’r... 
Preparing Your Canvas: Tying it all up This is the eleventh (and final!) post in my Preparing Your Canvas series, documenting NKU's transition from Blackboard to Canvas. If you want to start from the beginning, here's the rest in chronological or... Canvas Wants to Know What You Think | Survey At some point in your experience with Canvas, you, your colleagues, or your students may have seen an announcement in Canvas with an invitation to participate in a survey. If you followed the link you were asked to an... 
Why You Should Consider PreCon This Year This will be my fifth InstructureCon this year. I went once as a customer; the rest as an employee. No matter what role I was in, or where the conference was held, I always felt the same about InstructureCon - I ... Using JS to Add Accessibility Features to Canvas When I first started using Canvas I surprised about the lack of accessibility features available to users, so i decided to create my own and to share them with the wonderful community. Below I have attached so... 
Quick Module Navigation In our instance of Canvas we include all of the course modules as buttons on the course homepage. We wanted to make this buttons a little bit more accessible so I wrote some JS which scrolls to the module when they cl... Override / Adjust the Final Grade Background Recently a department asked me for a solution to their grading scheme. In this case the department has multiple criteria for passing a course. The first criteria is that you must have a passing ... 
Content Security Policy Project Update Last October we outlined a new security project for Canvas that gives institutions more control over the javascript that is allowed to run in their instance of Canvas through an updated Content Security Policy (CSP). ... Administrative guidelines for issuing Canvas Developer Keys 24 Jan 2019 Update: This guide is still relevant, but you should also learn more about some new features that have been released since this was posted. Thanks for all the comments and feedback that helped me unde... Course Storage Report and Quotas I hadn't found anything in the community that aggregated the information, so I thought I'd share some details from an interaction I had with Canvas Support while researching which content applies to whi... 
Our Custom "Viewer" Role for "Master" Courses In this blog, I'll explain how our College uses a custom "Viewer" role in conjunction with "master" courses. This blog expands on part of a Twitter chat conversation I hosted on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 called #Canv... Flickr Removing Images: We Got This ***Please note updated Flickr Removal Dates, due to Flickr Clarification***Thank you to Ian Linkletter for pointing out the clarification. Flickr is Removing Millions of ImagesOn November 1, 2018, Flickr announced a p... Introduction to Hour of Code Course UPDATE: Introduction to Hour of Code will now close at 10:00 P.M. M.S.T. on January 2. The extension in the deadline is meant to give participants additional time to work through the content. Please note that response... 
Canvas driven check for space in Physical Classrooms Recently two courses had actual enrollments that exceeded the physical capacity of the classrooms where they were scheduled. I am thinking about writing a tool that would use the student registration data for each Can... 
