Hello everyone, and happy summer! I was recently talking with some colleagues about some non-standard uses of Canvas at their universities, from departmental testing to first-year readiness programs. I'm curious: what's the most unconventional way yo...

Hi Canvas Users, I am a Success Advisor at a University using Canvas for the first time. Are there any tips you think are particularly helpful you can share? Any favorite actions or shortcuts that make your life easier you think we should all know an...

Hi! So our college started a new program a few years ago so we're still trying to get a footing on what we're doing, specifically with tracking our students' work in the program. We serve about 80 students in the program. At the end of each quarter, ...

We are preparing to adopt a syllabus management tool and wanted to know if anyone else is willing to share what tools/processes they are using to manage syllabi across their college/university and/or feedback about your experience with the tools/proc...

Hi, Canvas users! At my institution, the writing center director has set up a Canvas page for use by writing tutors.  It serves mostly as a communication hub for the writing center, with active discussions, a calendar, and some resources for sharing ...

Hi everyone,We are currently using the standard Canvas RCE code highlighting for program code.  Our ed designers and academicians want more syntax highlighting than is currently available.So we are considering the use of prism.js as an add-on to our ...

Hi everyone,   We have recently moved to Canvas after using printed workbooks and PowerPoint presentations for many years.  The feedback from students is that they love Canvas but miss the printed workbooks, because they like to add notes to the info...

My institution is reviewing the way in which we manage enrolment into our VLE, Canvas.  We cannot drive this from SITS as this does not track students involved in teaching, but rather assessment.  Instead on a course by course basis we enrol groups o...

Canvas Credentials users who will be attending the UPCEA / AACRAO Convergence: Credential Innovation in Higher Education event in DC this November: Let me know if you'd like to meet up to talk shop over lunch or during a networking break!

Hello! If this is not the appropriate group to ask this question, please direct me otherwise! I am assisting with the implementation of Canvas into my employer's institution, which is a healthcare organization. I am curious how others in similar sett...

At our institution we have a variety of "Peer Mentor" (PM)-type roles: students who are placed in undergraduate classes as advisors/mentors/tutors to the enrolled students. The PM is a fellow matriculated undergrad, but not enrolled in the course (in...

Hey folks, this is tangentially related to Canvas, hope that's ok.  I work at a small medical college with about 50 faculty and 600 students.  I am interested in the ratios at other colleges/universities (of any size) between Instructional Designers ...

My team is working towards a retention policy for Canvas courses. We just switched to Canvas a few years ago, and as such haven't had to think about old courses much before. My questions is: what is the retention policy at your campus? How long do yo...

Personally, I have been using Canvas since 2018 in the K-12 world. I am now in Higher Ed (Technical College) and I am responsible for assisting/training our faculty on Canvas.  My big hurdle now is how to convince others to make the leap.  The site u...

There have been several posts asking questions about test logs and cheating. The standard Canvas support answer seems to be that the analytics are not intended to be used to detect cheating. My question is why not!!!! As an example I had a student en...

Greetings, Fellow HIED LMS admins, do you just delete unused and/or empty Canvas shells at some point in the semester? We currently have hundreds every semester. We load in Canvas courses very early, often months before the start date, which means th...

Is it possible to make templates available for instructors to self apply to their courses via Course Copy or something like that? We currently share templates via Commons, but this is a pain because we need to replace the package there every time the...

hello  Trying to see if there's a way for Groups can view each others' posts in a Discussion. I understand this goes against some of the setting of Groups, but is there a way? Many thanks,   J

We are a group of Learning Designers and EdTech colleagues who have been building our own platform called Stackle over the last 2 years. We've evolved into a set of Canvas integrated features focusing on simple and easy to use Learner Portfolios, Lea...

How Aims Community College Provides Secure and Accessible AssessmentsMay 11, 2023 2:00 PMBy utilizing Respondus and ReadSpeaker, Aims Community College has been able to provide their learners a way to have their assessments provided in a secure, acce...

Hi everyone!I'm struggling with the Canvas Padlet Assignment. I can:Create a single Padlet Assignment, in which all users enrolled in Canvas can contributeCreate a Padlet Assignment per user, in which each user gets a blank template Padlet to complet...

Hello, has anyone used Canvas for things other than academics and learning? Our Student Affairs and Engagement department are wanting to replace some of the processes/tools they have now. For example, our students use the Ready Education app to track...

Hello,You can use Commons for yourself and for groups. I am trying to share with our faculty the pros and cons of using Commons vs. other methods of sharing content. Why would they use Commons for themselves and not simply Copy to from one course to ...

We are working on a pilot project to use eBooks/eTextbooks and possible use of publisher content for select courses at WCU during the Spring 2023 semester.  If anyone is using the LTI to integrate the use of these eBooks and publisher content through...

So, Turnitin has purchased a competitor to remove it from the field once again.  Unicheck will be discontinued.   Are there any other Unicheck users out there?  What are your plans moving forward?  Are there new plagiarism checkers out there?   Is an...

We are considering standardizing some of the job titles for members of our Learning Systems team. Right now, we have a Project Managers, Application Programmer Analysts, and Academic Consultants. Yet, all three positions are really the systems admini...