With some slight modification to your Canvas instance Theme Editor, you can create some subtle (or fancy) drop shadow effects for your Canvas pictures.

There is plenty of content on what to do in Canvas -- how to do this and how to do that. But sometimes we Check or Uncheck an option or setting in Canvas, or turn something On or Off, not knowing what it is or what it does -- and then something doesn...

Canvas seems overwhelming for those that are just getting started but the best advice to to choose one feature at a time to add to your course and try out.  Check out my article on Conquering Canvas, one feature at a time.

With just a little code, tables that lack pizzazz can come to life.

Congratulations on making it to the end of what has likely been one of the most challenging years in education! As the CSM team begins to get questions from Canvas Admin about what they need to be doing to prepare for the end of the year, we decided ...

With the return to somewhat normalcy, I would like to be able to have the submission be open to both on line and physical.  I have had some students that print out the assignment and then want to physically turn in that assignment.  I can go to grade...

Designing and delivering assessments is an important part of student learning and teaching efficacy. In any environment, but especially in online learning, academic integrity is key to an accurate assessment of student knowledge. When developing your...

Learn how to extract the context id within a course and create the csv file needed for the Zoom LTI integration.

Hello everyone, It is a monthly update from Turnitin Team. Learn about upcoming webinars and training sessions, discover the most useful resources for remote and distant learning/teaching, and the latest company news.

Hello everyone, It is a monthly update from Turnitin Team. Learn about upcoming webinars and training sessions, discover the most useful resources and latest company news.

As educators, we want our students to have the best learning experience possible! What creates the optimal Canvas experience? I like to think of a Canvas course as an experience, similar to an experience you might have when visiting a hotel. Your exp...

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From Covid-19 to Canvas Admin: Building Courses, No Problem! Maintaining the Instance via API-Pushes and Backend Development, Problems Galore!

We at Turnitin support education and learning around the globe. To ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes we produce huge amounts of valuable information and resources for instructors and students. Webinar...

When we go into the moderate on the new quizzes it would be really nice if somehow there could be a sign that we have already adjusted a score.  Either a color change on the attempt or a little symbol somewhere.  It is very time consuming to go throu...

When I try to open zoom in one of my  canvas courses, an error message appears saying I am an unrecorgnized user. I have a valid zoom account. I have checked to see if I am signed in. I pulled zoom into my navigation area according to the directions ...

I am a special education co-teacher. I have 6 canvas courses I am a teacher in with the general education teacher and in 5 I can add observer teachers of record for special education students and the observer automatically is added to my people in th...

We’ve all experienced that feeling of being lost...like when we step onto a college campus for the first time, enter a new shopping mall, or exit an airplane into a new airport. We have that uneasy feeling of not knowing where to go or what to do. Ou...

New account level role created but cannot assign an individual to that role.This article is a request to help or directions to an article I could not locate.

Outcomes are the cornerstones of teaching and learning as they lay the foundation for what is to be learned within a specific time in a student’s learning journey. Is your institution using outcomes? We'd love to hear your thoughts.

In the beginning of becoming a Canvas Admin, I was very adamant about not forcing templates on my teachers.  I firmly believed that having teachers use templates in their courses would take away from the creativity and the individualism that comes fr...

Canvas DESPERATELY needs the board shortcut for "save" and "edit"!! This is especially needed in Assignments. Please deliver ASAP. Thank you!

I love inspirational Ted Talks and thought I’d share a few of my top educational ones with you as well as Canvas features that support some pretty great ideas… “Ideas worth spreading.”

What can be done with a grading scale?

Due to new staff, we will be moving teachers around.  Course number, section and students will stay the same, just changing the teacher of record.  Once this task is completed in PowerSchool, what happens in CANVAS? Where do the student assignments g...

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Sometimes, it's difficult to know where to start with something new, especially when everything around you is constantly changing. It's okay though. The Canvas Community has your back. We'll take care of you. Here, you'll find some tips and official ...

New students are joining every day I do not want to reteach material.

For many educators, 2020 has brought a shift in delivering content from face-to-face to using a Learning Manage System (LMS) such as Canvas. Some find the change exciting and exhilarating. Some find it scary and frustrating. Regardless of how you’re ...