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Using Tabs in Your Canvas CourseVideo Link - http://screencast.com/t/y8kKgBuGOWT8 Utilizing tabs in your course may be a good idea for a variety or reasons.Aesthetics – Tabs can improve your course design by making your course more visually appealing...

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I'm working on a Canvas Gradebook hands-on, online training session for instructors. I'd like to provide each participant access to an individual,  populated Canvas Gradebook so they can experiment during the session.

Is this possible? Any advice is...

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We just completed our annual student (and faculty) tech survey. We do it each year, then look at trend analysis. It's based on the EDUCAUSE (ECAR) research instrument. It's pretty comprehensive. (The results are 85 pages.) n= 1,100. As it relates to ...

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If your institution opts to have a log-out period for security/privacy reasons there is currently no log-out session warning due to inactivity. This means that when a user is in the Canvas system, they are not alerted when their session expires or if...

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It's not clear to me what the difference is between sharing a private portfolio with the link, and making a portfolio public - both are shareable with a link to people outside of canvas ?thanks for any clarificationsue

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Hi Awesome Canvas people,With many people moving to the new Canvas UI and utilising the Canvas Theme Editor, I was wondering what cool things people have done with it and how they are leveraging CSS/JS with the new look and feel. I had an admin John....

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Hello everyone,I had the need to upload videos for a course but one of the requirements was to prevent the videos be downloaded. I found a workaround to achieve this:When you embed you videos activate the HTML editor.In the code look at this: class="...

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I am trying to make some interactive content in a page. Ideally, there would be a button that upon being pressed would yield some further information sort of analogous to the javascript alert method, except without the popup box and javascript. Inste...

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These ideas will close on  November 4 which is next week. Consider giving them some votes. Items that close on December 2Items that close on January 6

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All registered Canvas Engagement Strategies group members can "Edit" this doc and share their ideas!IMPORTANT: This is a collaborative doc so let's work together to keep this polished, full of fresh new ideas, and void of duplicates Follow these ins...

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How can I get a list/report of every file used in my course?Besides highlights all of the files in every folder to copy/paste....anyone know of a way to pull a report or get a list of every file in a course?Thanks!Stephanie

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Hi everyone!I'm an instructional designer at Emerson College and am working with faculty to create an online MFA in Creative Writing. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas or experience in conducting online writing workshops. In the face to face vers...

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Hi allIs there a way in which you can allow student groups to share their content (pages, discussions, assignments) with other student groups within a Course.  Allowing for group peer evaluation or student evaluation of other group activity as a lear...

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We are a high school in Sydney and have recently moved across from a moodle set-up to Canvas. On our moodle site, we had separate sections for overall Year Groups as well - ie, a space for Year Coordinators to communicate with the whole year group re...

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I'm working on a training course for faculty new to using Canvas at my institution, and I'm trying to come up with examples and pedagogically-sound reasons for choosing each setting in assignments, discussions, and quizzes.One setting I'm struggling ...

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I use modules and students must complete a module before going to the next module.However, in one case I have a student who was not able to complete module "a" before the due date. This means that the student can not take module "B". I would like to ...

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Hi all,For the past two years I've been revising and updating a course for online faculty called "Teaching Online Effectively" which is designed to teach new faculty how to teach online at our college as well as how to use Canvas and complete the ste...

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Hi All,My organization (a national non-profit that develops school leaders through professional development programs) is looking to extend the Canvas experience by using LTIs. We would LOVE your feedback regarding the LTIs you have used and your expe...

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I am looking to use Campus pack on canvas as it offers journals, wikis and blogs that I need to develop for reflective learning/ multi part assessments .Has anyone got any does and dont's re its installation and use in canvas?

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Did you know that there is a limit of 150 wiki pages that can be displayed in the Insert Content into the Page Menu?That means if you have more than 150 wiki pages in a course, the page you are trying to link to may not show up in the Insert Content ...

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It possible that a number of you will have seen this informational poster originally developed for Moodle (by Joyce Seitzinger, @catspyjamasnz / www.cats-pyjamas.net) and subsequently reworked for other platforms like D2L and Blackboard. We are start...

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Hello!In the Chronicle of Higher Education's ProfHacker blog, Anastasia Salter asks: "Do you have any strategies for grading large classes?"She poses "Five Tips" in the blog post. Check them and see if you agree or disagree, or if you can build on th...

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Hi guys,I'm working on a class and trying to use the accordion tool from the style guide.  Only issue I'm continuously running into is that I can't seem to get rid of the white space that's created automatically after each accordion set in the page.D...

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Hi everyone!  If I could get some advice, I'm working to completely re-develop a relatively new set of courses within our college that is desperately seeking some help!The courses are in a Positive Organizational Development (POD) program and the ass...

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The Online Learning Consortium and MERLOT are pleased to announce a new first-ever OLC Innovate 2016: Innovations in Blended and Online Learning. This conference will be held April 20-22, 2016 at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, Louisia...

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Hello,I facilitate a campus-wide "Teaching Online Series" for Indiana University. The series focuses on instructional design and best practice within the Canvas LMS. There has been some talk about creating a cohort for all faculty who go through the ...

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We are new to Canvas and our teachers are beginning to use it to take online submissions via Assignments. One issue that numerous teachers have emailed me about is that the students are confused by the "Submit Assignment" button. Specifically, they d...

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We are moving to using sharepoint next year and would like to integrate it with canvas. We would like to know if anyone has done the same.What are your thoughts/issues/any tips?

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Does anyone know how to embed a timer in a page? I'd like to have an embedded timer in a page that counts down from say 5 minutes to use during group discussion time. I've tried linking in a module to a particular website time. But the ones I'm findi...

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If you are working in the vocational education and training sector, you may want to vote in favour of a proposed Canvas Community group. The group will focus on aspects of designing, developing and delivering online courses that support the developme...

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