Earlier this year I proposed the idea https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/11306-arc-recognize-captioned-youtube-videos?sr=search&searchId=ab54e5b2-dcc5-4e64-be49-9e802ded4f39&searchIndex=1‌, but it has not happened yet. So I did some poking and sea...

UPDATE: Here are the slides from a webinar on this topic.  I and my colleagues will also be presenting about this at OLC Accelerate 2019.    I've shared a resource in Canvas Commons with some examples of brief, research-based teaching strategies impl...

We were initially told that the new "Add to Student To-Do List" checkboxes/functionality available to instructors in the latest release notes would be behind a feature flag, but it's not.  Until we can get some training out to faculty for the best wa...

In my recent efforts to migrate data into Canvas from another reporting system one of the things that I found useful was to enroll all the users into the course and set their state as active, but for students who should not have access to the course ...

As with Conversations‌, email can also be used to reply to messages in Discussions. In my classes I like to respond to each student's introduction to help them feel welcome, and doing it via email means I can take care of that task when out and about...

Have you ever wanted the ability to know which files from the Canvas Files section are being used in course content or where they are being used? How about the ability to identify and delete unused, irrelevant files?  Read below about a tool we have ...

Want students’ handwritten work, like diagrams, calculations, and drawing to appear directly in Canvas like it does with typed work? Check out our demo and learn about our exclusive early adopters program during our webinar on June 12th and noon East...

In conjunction with migrating users from one source to another (such asMigrating grades from one Canvas course to another ). I found it useful to be able add users based on their SIS ID and to be able set them to inactive or reactivate them.The resul...

My recent attempt to migrate users' grades for assignments from a pre-Canvas course to Canvas starts by adding the users to a Canvas course, then adding the assignments, and then finally adding each student's grade for each assignment.Of course such ...

** UPDATE JANUARY 2020** Our Canvas Course Evaluation Checklist v2.0 is Now Available! Please visit our Course Evaluation Checklist v2.0 Blog Post to learn more about v2.0 and create your own copy of the checklist. We hope you enjoy!    When Shauna...

Thanks for the likes, tweets, and feedback regarding the Course Evaluation Checklist! Members of the Content Services team collaborated with Canvas mobile app guru,  @rseilham , to create another go-to resource to help you understand mobile app desig...

In the first several year of using Canvas I spent a lot of time moving content (especially quizzes) from the prior LMSs, but this is my first major attempt to move state information for students. Has anyone else addressed such a migration?In this mig...

From: Our Instructional Design Team  To: Our Amazing Teachers We feel that a well-designed course home page can inspire students to engage more deeply and quickly with learning materials. In appreciation for all that you do, we have created two custo...

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I will edit and develop this post to make a more structured reply but my excitement has got the better of me.This tweet popped up in my timeline yesterday:If you are at all interested in the use of digital badges and their use in teaching and learnin...

At my college our exam bluebooks (actually they're green*) include our CRC Honor Code printed on the inside cover. That is part of a college-wide effort to build a culture of academic integrity. We are encouraged share the code with our students in v...

A colleague asked me about a teaching challenge and whether there was a way to do what he wanted in Canvas. He teaches a science lab class and wants to turn the experience of writing a lab report into something more like a scientific paper. This give...

Thank you everyone who read this blog entry. I discovered a way to import YouTube captions into Arc and wrote another entry about it: YouTube Captions to Arc‌.It is awesome that YouTube videos can be played inside the Arc media player and thereby all...

I never know when I should be doing a blog post, document, discussion, etc. but this just felt like a blog ( I think ). While the Clark County School District is pretty massive (over 44,000 employees and 318,000 students) our core group of Canvas peo...

California's community colleges are fortunate to have supporting programs like 3C Media Solutions, which among other things hosts and streams videos for our faculty. The service has a connection the Distance Education Captioning and Transcription gra...

The StoryA common frustration of teachers using Canvas at an institution is when their course navigation gets messed up by an admin. A teacher may have been teaching their courses for a couple of weeks and then all of a sudden, their institution adds...

Sonia Parada from Pasadena City College shared an awesome icebreaker she uses in a face-to-face class and wondered if it could be done online. In person, each student draws an image or series of images that correspond to the syllables in their name. ...

Someone posted this HTML snippet some time back, and we used it all the time. With the new course and people search tools, it broke.  @gogasj  made some quick edits and updated it to work with the new course and people search tools. Just thought we w...

Sub-Accounts are a way to organize. They are a way to pull data by a distinct group (in the picture above it could be used to pull information for all the course in "History"). They are a way to give restricted admin rights to different areas. They h...

The California Community Colleges Online Education Initiative created a series of Online Readiness Tutorials that help prospective online students decide whether they should take classes in this mode. The tutorials have been available for a few years...

One of the most difficult things online educators have is to keep up with the changes in technology, especially mobile. One of the biggest challenges that my team and I have had to overcome is making sure that whatever we design for our faculty and s...

Canvas privileges continuing student access to information once released. For example, an assignment cannot be unpublished once students have made submissions. Since the assignment instructions are visible on the page, this means that students can al...

Have you ever wondered how teachers create beautiful courses with graphic buttons that link to places within their course and even to external resources? Well, now you too can make your course not only appealing to the eye but also functional for you...

From the University that brought you the Merry Canvasmas!!!" and canvasmas we decided to show our love for all things Canvas! As it’s the most romantic day of the year (Valentines Day in case you've forgotten) we are using the #WeLoVeCanvas to share ...

The start of the semester is always hectic. No matter how much you plan. But for a while now the poor Support Team at my University has had to deal with the same issue over and over, day in and day out. It starts a few days before the semester starts...