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...

The Grade Detail Tray is a tool in the New Gradebook that makes it fast and easy to view and enter grades, submission status, and comments, both by individual assignment or student. In addition, the Grade Detail Tray provides a place to access Speedg...

Students benefit from formative assessments that allow them to check their understanding of terms/concepts throughout a course. According to instructors at our community college, regular formative assessments are especially helpful in identifying stu...

Thank you to  @mmoore1 ‌ for asking a question about how faculty can write comments on essay questions in quizzes. I wasn't sure whether the question was for Essay or File Upload questions and wanted some more experience with them so I made a video s...

Have you ever wished there was a resource you could reference when setting up a Canvas course? Well, good news...now there is one! The Training Services department shared all of their collective experiences working in education and training clients f...

A colleague asked me how to view the grades of a student who had been dropped from a class. Our SIS processing gives dropped students a status that prevents us from using the View Prior Enrollments link, so we have to be creative with our .beta insta...

At the end of each episode of This Week in Canvas, I ask viewers to make a suggestion for tip of the week. We began the series this semester and have only received a couple of suggestions, and the first one we used as the tip of the week in a subsequ...

I wasn't really sure how to title this blog...so rather than trying to hash out a fancy title, let's just get to the meat of this posting...I recently helped one of our full time faculty who had used the "Record/Upload Media" tool (How do I upload an...

Hi all, last week I hosted a webinar at my institution where I showcased Padlet and demonstrated how to integrate Padlet boards into Canvas.  Feel free to check if out if you have never explored the platform. Technology Spotlight: Padlet - YouTube Yo...

Recently two courses had actual enrollments that exceeded the physical capacity of the classrooms where they were scheduled. I am thinking about writing a tool that would use the student registration data for each Canvas course to compare against the...

Hi guys!Our higher education institution has been working with Canvas for just over a year. During this time, this community was very helpful in our doubts and so we would like to share our curated community links.Thanks to all of you who share your ...

Thanks to the inspiration of laurakgibbs‌ I have decided to try Grade Declarations for my fully online history class in the spring. One of the assignments I am going to use it with is the primary source analysis, which students do several times over ...

This is somewhat of a note to myself.  Up until recently, YouTube would allow sharing videos without related videos using an option on the Share:Embed popup.  I was updating some pages last night and noticed they no longer offer this option.  It is s...

In response to the Disappearing Graphics and related posts here, as well as related questions from my own faculty, here are some tips for what you might try doing if you run into a situation in which some or all of the images do not appear to load in...

Being at an institution with a number of experienced Canvas users as well as many just getting started, I have been giving thought to what activities within the Community should be included in initial certification and re-certification courses. I’m s...

I had a question to confirm that the mobile app respects the module prereq and requirement settings for students, and I made a demo video:I did the recording using the Student app on an iPhone, and I assume the same is true for the Android app.

    Official Canvas DocumentCanvas, as a SAML ServiceProvider, supports special values for RelayState to allow deep linking into Canvas for IdP initiated logins. An IdP can also modify the RelayState for an SP initiated login if it has outside knowle...

UPDATE 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 instance. ...

UPDATE 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 instance. ...

I recently attended a webinar called “Student Device Preferences for Online Course Access and Multimedia Learning”, and it tied in nicely to my presentation from this past summer about using mobile devices to increase student engagement in the online...

This is a quick demonstration of how to use the VLookup function in Excel to help combine and make sense of multiple Canvas reports (e.g: using the users.csv and user_observers.csv to create a list of observers and student they are observing) (view i...

FlipGrid is a free video discussion tool that allows for threaded video discussions in your Canvas course.  It's become very popular in both K-12 schools and college classes lately, possibly even more popular than Kahoot   And Microsoft recently boug...

The terms list on the account-level course page is sorted in ascending order. When I filter terms, I almost always want the current term or a recent term. Having to scroll to the bottom of our long list of terms is annoying, so I wrote some JavaScrip...

Ready-Made Template Suite The Instructional Design Team at Instructure is always looking for opportunities to assist teachers and admins in the creation of engaging Canvas courses. In the past, we have created and shared our Course Evaluation Checkli...

When my college started using Canvas a couple of semesters ago, I used the opportunity to change how I communicate with fellow faculty about upcoming training, tips and tricks, and other news related to our LMS. I started a weekly email, "This Week i...

I'm starting to lose track of all the different rubrics and checklists related to course design that I've come across, and some new ones have come out very recently, so I'd thought I'd list them here.  If you know of others, please comment below.  Th...

Measuring student achievement of course outcomes through a variety of assessments accommodates diverse learners, promotes critical thinking and encourages academic honesty (and helps meet QM Standard 3.4).In traditional assessments, such as quizzes a...

Discussions that engage students in course content and with each other promote student satisfaction and retention. Canvas discussions are commonly used for class discussions and group discussions, but can also be used to engage individual students wi...