Parenting during uncertain times can be tough. I am always trying to stay positive, productive, and in a routine- especially now amongst the Coronavirus pandemic.   Not only am I an employee of Instructure for the past seven and a half years, but I a...

If you would like to connect with students using Google Hangouts Meet as your conferencing tool, you have the ability to add a Hangout to your Canvas Course, Course Announcement, Module or via Calendar. The Google Meet will start when you join and wi...

Hi Fellow Admins,Hope you are all making though this crisis. Have any of you come across this when using Respondus Lockdown Browser.I have been able to hack the browser and allow it to open new tabs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRBgN-1EbA8The ven...

Due to blogs being temporary resources, the information included in this blog will not be updated. For more information about managing and configuring keys for an account, visit:How do I manage developer keys for an account?How do I configure an LTI...

I've had a case come where an instructor wants to be able to remotely proctor exams for a calculus course.  Being Calculus, it doesn't lend itself so well being an online exam because they need to do things like draw and write things out to solve pro...

You need to move some of your schooling online quickly, but you’re not sure where to start with teachers to help them feel comfortable? The Learning Services Team at Instructure has created this list of 5 Things to Easily Get Your Canvas Class Going!...

Instructional designers and other learning professionals were quick to collaborate and share best practices. One awesome person (Daniel Stanford) started a Google Doc listing contingency plans, world-wide. Got so busy on the editable copy that he mov...

This is our school's Coronavirus (COVID-19) information page:Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources and Updates - Moraine Park Technical College    Contingency PlanningReview Other Contingency Planning Documents

As users migrate to a mostly online space, web conferences will be an integral part of student and faculty success.Institutions can use web conferencing in Canvas through the Canvas Conferences tool or through enabling an LTI that provides its own we...

This is a quick-and-dirty list of resources to maximize the information available. This list will be updated on the original WA ELC Contingency Site as more information becomes available.ELC: Sharing Instructional Emergency Preparedness Plans & Resou...

We are Instructure’s Instructional Design Team! Between the six of us, we have over 36 years of Canvas experience! Within Canvas, we have been students, teachers, admins, trainers, and instructional designers. We have created fully online, hybrid/ble...

I use a Google Form for assignments where I want students to have a choice on how to complete it and if I want more control over what students submit than is allowed with Canvas assessment options. The challenge I have with entering data into the Can...

So the classroom is a space where students can interact socially in a comfortable and predictable way. Situations such as with the Covid-19 virus arise and our learning platforms go some way to enable us to maintain teaching and learning outside of t...

A living document regarding business continuity for campuses that may need to quickly convert on-ground courses to online courses. Emergency Remote Teaching Guidelines Duke Kunshan's Coronavirus Response: Online learning Lessons learned 3/6 @ 12 pm E...

This template was designed to help unify the Contingency space within the Canvas Admins group. Start your document by changing the title above, and replacing this place holder text with your own ideas. Before publishing, add additional tags so your d...

This template was designed to help unify the Contingency space within the Canvas Admins group. Start your blog by changing the title above, and replacing this place holder text with your own ideas. Also, remember to create a  banner image. Before pub...

List View shows To Do information plus extrasHow students work and what they seeAs an instructor, sometimes it’s hard to know what students can do to view their current status in Canvas.  Because we do admin type stuff most of the time, even academic...

Thoughts on embedding digital worksheets like this one?One of the more clever Canvas / Google combinations, imho, is embedding documents. Besides saving paper, AdvantagesExpandable! Paper documents have a finite amount of space. Even with margins set...

2020 Course Design Essentials: Accessibility Clips, Tips, & Tricks... Oh My! Are you looking for more information on accessibility?   The Canvas Instructional Design Team continues our 2020 Course Design Essentials monthly event, including blog posts...

Grading, meetings, conferences, daily responsibilities, lesson planning and family leaves very little time for teachers to find opportunities to continue their learning.  We offer professional learning for our teachers on Wednesdays as an extended da...

There are some common misconceptions in New Quizzes that can be quite frustrating. Here are a few.Hot Spot Questions: Click, Not DrawThe Sky's the Limit (But with Exceptions, Though)Availability Dates: Not Just for Taking the Assessment, But Also for...

I'm really pleased with the functionality of newquizzes for  automated formative assessments.  Here's how I have done it and how it's making life easier for our tutors.First of all the sheer number of options that come with New Quizzes is amazing! Th...

My Canvas journey begin 6 years ago.  I was a middle school math teacher for twenty years teaching Pre-Algebra, Algebra and Geometry.  I have always been very interested in technology and how I could use it with my students.  I used the TI graphing c...

Surveys are possible in New Quizzes, although you may need some tweaking. There is an article here (FAQ: New Quizzes) mentioning that surveys do not exist in New Quizzes. However, this is not logically correct, since it's possible to create assessmen...

When I studied the comparison table between Old vs New Quizzes, I thought to myself: If quizzes can be exported, why not individual assignments? They should. Here is a viable solution to export/import a New Quiz.For this blog post, call the old cours...

The Google Chrome browser has a built in set of developer tools. Included is an emulator that shows what the current web page looks like on various mobile phone browsers. It even includes a button to show what happens when the device is rotated. This...

In the K - 12 virtual world, we have a lot of accommodations and modifications to provide our students. It isn't as easy as in the brick and mortar world where you just let a student sit with their test a little longer or you just let the student kee...

From time to time, we've held blogging challenges in the Canvas Community, and the contributed content has been amazing. Recently, it's been noticed that there's a need for content that focuses on student privacy and, more specifically, FERPA. Like a...

I figured this out myself when I was an account admin at a Canvas institution, and I have since seen it described in comments here on the community too, but I thought it might be good to formally commit this to words and pixels.Sometimes an instructo...

Hi,I am finding my way to Canvas and I would like to share this community this canvas template that I have built upon another template that some one shared to the Commons (I can't remember the author now, but thank you who ever you were).Canvas doesn...