New Year, New Course Goals Are you struggling to set achievable goals for your courses?   Have you ever made a promise to yourself you didn't keep? I've spent so many years making new year's resolutions, only to break them within two weeks of setting...

Careful planning and regular evaluation of your Canvas course is essential for creating and maintaining positive and effective teaching and learning experiences for all stakeholders. A well thought out and efficiently designed course minimizes confus...

  Consider adding some color to your page background, because black text on a white background can be a boring presentation.  

If you're like me, you have quizzes with dozens of mixed multiple-choice, true/false, matching, short answer, and essay questions. This method allows you to easily review the quiz questions that need reviewing by letting you skip straight to the ques...

  Design Tips for Pages in Canvas Are you looking for some design tips for your Canvas Pages?   Ever see a super inviting and well-thought-out page in Canvas and think, “OoooOoOo! I want to be able to do that!” but then wonder how? Or maybe you have ...

The complete custom javascript code used at Oregon State University to add an item to the Global Navigation menu.

Why Serve? Humanitarian Expedition Reflections Want to know more about the culture of our design team?   Deonne Johnson, the manager of the Instructional Design Team, shares her reflections on the relationship between service and self care, and in do...

It’s a wonderful thing to be able to pursue your passions in both your career and your personal life. It’s been almost a decade since I’ve joined the CHOICE Humanitarian family (as both a participant and Trip Leader) and, coincidentally, I’ve been at...

Today my heart is overflowing with gratitude for the incredible Instructional Design team at Instructure. A few years ago, I envisioned creating a course focused on accessibility, a topic that is near and dear to my heart. I wanted to share the knowl...

  There are three ways to make lists on a Canvas page: unordered lists (bullet), ordered lists (numeric), and definition lists (dictionary or glossary). In this tutorial we will explore each approach.

You can create a custom announcement or "Did you know??" box on any page in your Canvas course by using some simple HTML code.

Due to an unexpected service incident, users of Turnitin solutions may have experienced an unexpected service disruption. Our team encountered the incident between the following times: PDT September 14th 14:10 to September 14th 16:44BST September 14t...

This is a fun little interaction that is pretty easy to execute. Add interactive hover effects to buttons and other elements on your Canvas page. Level up!

Turnitin will take a 2 hour maintenance window on August 14, 2021 from 08:00-10:00 PDT, 16:00-18:00 BST, 01:00-03:00 AEST (Aug 15th) [go to https://tinyurl.com/ew59uty2 for local time].  

Although the copy/paste function on computers is a useful tool, there are better approaches for copying, duplicating, and sharing content within Canvas.

On behalf of our product team, I'm enlisting your help to find out what you think about Canvas release resources. Please see the full post in our Product Blog. Thanks, Erin

On behalf of our product team, I'm enlisting your help to find out what you think about Canvas release resources. Please see the full post in our Product Blog. Thanks, Erin

Hi, I developed a button generator for Canvas LMS. https://pablogguizar.github.io/button_maker/. 

Classroom debates offer a unique educational benefit in that they leverage communication skills, collaboration, and deep critical thinking. 

Here is our article about using Canvas group pages for Wiki projects: https://itsupport.umd.edu/itsupport/itsupport?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0015206  

Here is our article about creating Canvas Groups for Large Enrollment Courses: https://itsupport.umd.edu/itsupport/itsupport?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0015840

You will learn how to create a group in Canvas for students.

Canvas allows instructors to give individual students extra time or attempts on quizzes, however, extending time on quizzes for specific students will only work if the instructor has not put an availability restriction on the quiz that does not allow...

Users may experience blank or missing content when accessing Zoom or other tools from within Canvas if their third-party cookies are blocked. To resolve this issue, follow the instructions below or see the enable third-party cookies in your browser P...

We wanted to share the following article about Developing Program Level Assessment in Canvas: https://itsupport.umd.edu/itsupport?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0013527 Enjoy!  

We love the AWESOME new feature “Canvas for Elementary.” In our desire to support any and all users who have enabled this interface, we’re providing a free resource you can find in Canvas Commons, Canvas for Elementary | Course Card/Banners. Simply i...

It is a monthly update from the Turnitin Team. Below you can find the most up-to-date information about training sessions, teachers' and students' resources for remote and distant learning/teaching, and a quiz to test your awareness of academic integ...

So here's a recipe: Your PowerPoints + Your Blackboard Course(s) + Camtasia (or any other screen capture software with audio capability) + a Tablet or TabletPC

Turnitin is back to deliver our latest teaching resources and product updates for making the teaching process both quicker and easier. Below you may also find the webinars and user summit conducted by our team in collaboration with educational techno...

Explore how to create colorful, stylized tabbed content on your Canvas page.