Mastering Modules A Guide to Organizing Your Content in Canvas   Imagine having a magic wand that organizes all your course content, streamlines student navigation, and boosts engagement—all in one go. Well, in the world of Canvas, that magic wand ex...

Get a quick glimpse into the Smart Search feature, currently in experimental beta. 

In your experience with Canvas, you or your colleagues may have seen an announcement in Canvas with an invitation to participate in a survey. If you followed the link, you were asked to answer the following question: “How likely is it that you would ...

Elevating Student Success Through Metacognition Leveraging Canvas Tools to Foster Reflection, Self-Assessment, and Feedback in the Classroom Learn how you can use native Canvas tools to support metacognitive learning in your students. Use discussions...

Giving quizzes in Canvas is a pretty simple process, but the following tips and tricks will help ensure the smooth creation, distribution, and grading of quizzes 

As of today, instructors can randomize the order of students in SpeedGrader settings. This impactful update improves prevention of grading fatigue and biases when evaluating student deliverables.

I Have a Homepage Template! Now What? Setting up your homepage and beyond To celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week, Instructure’s Instructional Design team shared two free homepage templates that you can use in your courses! Now that you have the templ...

Brightening Classrooms with Confetti: Teacher Appreciation Week Canvas Templates Free Canvas templates to celebrate teachers! At Instructure, we want to celebrate your confetti moments by offering these free homepage templates from the Instructional ...

This tool was created to allow you to extract the data Canvas has on discussions in a class into a spreadsheet to allow analysis of the data to explore students' participation and engagement with discussions in a course.  Exploring this data could id...

In the dynamic landscape of education, the concept of personalized learning has gained significant traction. It recognizes that each learner has unique strengths, weaknesses, and preferences, and advocates for tailoring instruction to meet individual...

As an administrator of Canvas LMS, you'll be thrilled to hear about the latest offering from Instructure: Canvas Archiving. This innovative solution, developed in partnership with K16 Solutions, empowers you to seamlessly archive course content and s...

The Office of Academic Strategy's first whitepaper addresses outcomes assessment specifically, and how it connects to ongoing course, program, and institutional assessment. The whitepaper serves two purposes: one, to unpack how to connect student lea...

Curious to learn more about best practices and features/products to consider for onboarding courses? Look no further than this blog post!  Enjoy and please leave a comment with your thoughts!

Whee, I found a way to make an embedded YouTube video start and stop where I'd like it to. (1) Embed as usual, (2) make sure it works, (3) then go into the HTML editor by clicking </> at screen bottom. (4) Add the following immediately after the ques...

  New Year, New Canvas Three Resolutions To Improve Your Canvas Courses   Unlock the potential of your virtual classroom with three powerful resolutions, ensuring accessibility, inclusivity, and engaging interactions in your Canvas courses for the up...

Howdy from Houston! 鸞 Take a sneak peak into the world of Instructional Designer (ID) for a Education Service Center. If you're  not from Texas, then you've probably never heard of an ESC. Established in 1967 by the Texas legislature, regional educ...

  GenAI: Your Ultimate Teaching Assistant!     Say goodbye to the days of relying solely on student helpers for classroom tasks! Enter the era of Generative AI (GenAI), revolutionizing education by becoming your go-to assistant at any time. In this b...

Great news for our Canvas Field Admins who are also Mastery Connect users! We're excited to inform you that you can now seamlessly manage your support needs for both Canvas and Mastery Connect right from the Canvas Field Admin console.

As an instructor, have you ever wanted a quick way to see what assignments in a course were group assignments?  Or used peer reviews?  Or maybe students point out an assignment that doesn't allow submissions, and you wonder how many other assignments...

Unlock the power to effortlessly convert Canvas course syllabi into PDFs and check if a course lacks syllabus content with this Canvas API and Python solution!

Are you an instructor/teacher looking to be more efficient inside of Canvas? Look no further than this blog post for ideas on how to make the most of your time so you can spend more time with students and those you love. 

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology and innovation, staying up-to-date with the latest tools, platforms, and methodologies is crucial for personal and professional growth. New users in any field often find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer...

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology and innovation, staying up-to-date with the latest tools, platforms, and methodologies is crucial for personal and professional growth. New users in any field often find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer...

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology and innovation, staying up-to-date with the latest tools, platforms, and methodologies is crucial for personal and professional growth. New users in any field often find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer...

Learn how to efficiently generate Canvas pairing codes on-demand using Google Apps Script and the Canvas API, especially useful for administrators. Ensure you have the necessary permissions to create observer codes in your Canvas instance for seamles...

Have you ever wondered about features that could help save students time and be more efficient inside of Canvas? Look no further than this blog post! 

We are a K12 district and, especially at the start of the school year, there are a lot of changes made in Synergy SIS, for example: teachers might get reassigned to teach a different class, or perhaps the course code needs correcting in Synergy.    (...

Struggling with editing users or courses lacking SIS IDs in Canvas? Discover an ingenious solution using Google Apps Script, enabling effortless bulk assignment of SIS IDs to streamline your administrative tasks.

Looking for real-world applications of the new Bulk Publish/Unpublish feature? Look no further than this new blog post! 

I used Google Apps Script and the Canvas API to create a solution for addressing frustrations caused by SIS Import issues, including failures, accidental deletions, and lack of notifications for hanging imports or changes in Canvas.