I was so excited by this month's blogging challenge - and now that the school year has ended, it feels like the right time for reflecting and cleaning up. Everyone has a few beliefs or assumptions as starting points for how they design, and those bel...

Here are some ideas for instructors to engage students in Canvas Groups:Collaborative Writing and Notetaking (Documents), Presentations, SpreadsheetsAsk students to use the Collaborations feature in their Groups to collaborate on documents, presentat...

WHAT IS CHANGING The Learning Services Team has offered the Be The Hero, Quick Start Admin Guide, in CanvasNet and for import from the Canvas Commons. Some clients may have also received a course import file and added this resource directly to their ...

Assignments are the fundamental building blocks in a Canvas course. They are the milestones that students can achieve.

Share how you approach course design. How do you organize content so it’s efficient for both instructors and students? What tips and/or tools can you share?

Here in Australia we are four months into the school year, the weather is getting colder and the days are getting shorter. Courses are now settled and hitting that nice mid-year flow, the perfect time to sit back and review where our course is at. Fo...

Most of us would probably agree, students don't "need" a tutorial on using Canvas. Students are following the lead of their instructor in terms of course design. However, it may not hurt to provide options for our students, especially when it comes t...

I did this some time ago when running a workshop for academics and course designers. It may help people understand how to design a #Mastery Paths module. I set up each phase as a Canvas Module.  The orange items are generally a page or quiz. If usefu...

We have 1-1 Surface Pro devices so students and staff are big users of the stylus and OneNote. Increasingly noticing an either Canvas or OneNote situation happening when ideally it should using BOTH as and where the software best suits the purpose wi...

In my district our SIS enrollment processing for drops removes students' users from Canvas courses. I don't know the specific status that is applied, but I do know that dropped students do not appear on the Prior Users page. One of the challenges thi...

On March 15, Ventura College hosted the 4th Annual district-wide Distance Education Summit. The theme was, “Reaching Every Student: Accessibility and Equity in Online Learning”. The day included sessions, workshops, and a student panel addressing iss...

Attached Excel workbook is able to download details of the course sections and create a new groupset with groups of your choice. Details of the course sections will be displayed in the columns A to F (see green arrows) after downloading from Canvas ...

There have been times when students say they completed work on time but forgot to submit it or ran into some kind of technical problem that made it hard to submit on time. With a Google Cloud assignment I discovered a way for me to verify when the wo...

In our instance of Canvas we include all of the course modules as buttons on the course homepage. We wanted to make this buttons a little bit more accessible so I wrote some JS which scrolls to the module when they click the button and collapses all ...

When I first started using Canvas I surprised about the lack of accessibility features available to users, so i decided to create my own and to share them with the wonderful community.Below I have attached some JS and some CSS too which I highly reco...

Our campus piloted Canvas for 2 semesters and due to a number of reasons we decided "Not" to adopt the platform. We had about 40 classes and the instructors using Canvas now wanted to retrieve their materials and assessments from Canvas and put them ...

UNLV's Office of Online Education is looking for an Instructional Art Manager! Please share or apply using the link below if interested. https://www.higheredjobs.com/institution/details.cfm?JobCode=176882119&Title=%2AREVISED%2A%20Instructional%20Art%...

This guide will help you setup searching shortcuts in Chrome and Firefox for finding Canvas users and courses or going directly to them using the canvas ID. Both browsers allow you to use a keyword entered into the address bar followed by what you wa...

A long, long time ago, in an office somewhere in my building (I'm guessing), a conversation probably nothing like this took place:"Okay, it's time to implement the new LMS, Canvas.""Hooray! Anything special we need to do?""Well, we should probably de...

Canvas Community y comunidad española,There are many one-sheet guides out there, but just in case if you were looking for a single-sheet (dual sided) instructional PDF on Canvas...Attached are the same guides in English and in Spanish. Example in Eng...

There have been some important changes to developer keys (see the 14 Jul 2018 and 10 Oct. 2017 release notes) since my last blog post about what administrators should consider when issuing developer keys. Through feedback from the community and from ...

Hi everyone,Canvas has some great options for giving students feedback in the quizzes. However, like many people joining Canvas, I was particularly keen to have the option for students to get immediate feedback, after each question in a quiz (rather ...

It is now possible to connect Hypothesis, a free and open source collaborative annotation tool, with your Canvas course.  You could use this for activities in which your students collaboratively comment or annotate web sites, documents, and other ite...

Hi all, last month I hosted a webinar at my institution where I discussed some of my insights regarding infographic platforms that are on the market and how they integrate into Canvas. There are many options these days, and I've found that there are...

When our Technical College moved from Pearson eCollege's LearningStudio LMS to Canvas, much of the course content we migrated kept the same HTML code from eCollege.  Sometimes, this included <font> tags, <span> tags, and other HTML elements that made...

Almost exactly three years ago  @brueckert ‌ proposed the idea https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/4160-lti-external-tools-ability-to-add-rubric" modifiedtitle="true" title="LTI External Tools - Ability to Add Rubric. I am getting ready to use a Go...

I thought I would share the following CSS/JS files in case there is anyone else who wants to be able to do this. Here are some screenshots of how it will look:And here is the code that makes it possible - all you have to do it create the padded image...

To help with the transition from the current Canvas gradebook to the New Gradebook I created the following functionality comparison. This is a working document, so feel free to comment on if you think wording needs tweaked or if you think something n...