https://spark.adobe.com/sp/design/page/687d0071-c042-410e-bf65-5dc89eeeae62Online LearningTeaching in the throes of a pandemicCan be tricky, because classes are all onlineStudents reactions ranged from the academic to the eccentricTo suddenly find th...

Dear Teachers,  Canvas has a great (new) feature that can make is much easier to share your content with your colleagues.  It's called DIRECT SHARE. You can directly share assignments, discussions, quizzes, and content pages with a colleague AND you ...

If your course is in a term that has closed grading periods, hope is not lost. We'll show you how to cope with this.Creating Assignments (& New Quizzes) Outside of Grading PeriodsThis is somewhat tricky. For example, you have the following grading pe...

What they are and how to use them.

Many teachers have now moved to teaching entirely online with the current COVID-19 situation. We've already discussed the idea of "Maintaining a Connection of the Classroom". What about our teachers who are on a rapid learning curve in the use of tec...

Ok this is a really short post but might be helpful for some of you who have multiple adults and/or kids all doing Zoom meetings in the house and you keep hearing and being distracted by all of the other conversations.  Turn on some White NoiseWhite ...

You can start and join Zoom meetings in Canvas.   Notes: You must have accounts for both Canvas and Zoom.For more information about using Zoom in Canvas, visit the Zoom in Canvas document.For help with Zoom, visit the Zoom Help Center.   Using Zoomwi...

You may have read my previous blog around maintaining the connection with your classroom. This was written as teachers moved from a classroom situation to teaching online.Maintaining the Connection of the ClassroomI wanted to write this post as the c...

When you archive your comments from your canvas inbox, where do they go? How can I find them again if I need them/

How many of you have seen the show "Bob the Builder"?  One of Bob's mantras is to use the right tool for the job.  This holds true for so many things in life and is not just limited to building things.  It's something we should definitely try to do a...

With the education landscape rapidly changing, many of us are exploring ways to enable online teaching and learning opportunities to an increasing cohort of students.  This blog will explore best practices to consider when teaching large Courses with...

I've been making some recordings recently on the theme of dealing with with coronavirus shutdowns that so many schools have been experiencing.  I posted one of my episodes earlier dealing specifically with using Zoom to remote proctor a written exam ...

Earlier today, Phil Hill said in a blog post that as teachers respond to mass school closures the initial phase we are seeing is a lot of people wanting to move from synchronous face to face education to synchronous online video conferencing.  Phil t...

During COVID-19, all online educational platforms have a responsibility to our teachers and students. I co-founded Instructure in 2008, and I recently co-founded the Derivita online math system with Ryan Brown. As you can imagine, the education commu...

This write up is based on a webinar I provided to my institution today.  I am sharing it with the Canvas Community for anyone who would find it useful.  My target audience is traditional faculty who are transitioning from brick classrooms to online c...

Like many of you out there, here at Utah State University, we are struggling to move all of our classes online in an absurdly short period of time in response to COVID-19.To help speed up the process, I have created some JavaScript to facilitate rapi...

If you would like to connect with students using Zoom as your conferencing tool, you have the ability to add a Zoom Meeting to your Canvas Course, Course Announcement, Module, or via Calendar. The Zoom sessions will start when you join, and will run ...

If you would like to connect with students using Zoom as your conferencing tool, you have the ability to add a Zoom Meeting to your Canvas Course, Course Announcement, Module, or via Calendar. 

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Blueprint Courses are courses that are used as template courses. Course content can be locked and then synced to associated courses. As an instructor, you can manage unlocked blueprint course content, lock course content, sync associated courses, and...

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...