In some cases an institution using Canvas may have users who authenticate to Canvas using more than one authentication mechanism each using a different page for the collection of authentication credentials (usernames and passwords usually).For exampl...

In response to a long-standing user need in the Canvas Community, I cobbled together the code snippet below. This page documents a fully-deployable end-user solution for anybody to test, tweak, and use to produce a plain-vanilla HTML version of a Can...

Deciding whether to use a Blueprint course, cross-list or commons can be overwhelming.This ridiculous flowchart (see attached for a pdf version) is a very late response post to Tracey DeLillo's reply on the Blueprint release notes back in August. Com...

Here's a rundown on documentation available for using various publisher materials in your Canvas course.  Feel free to edit/add to this page or comment below and I can make updates. If you are using a publisher website for materials and assessments i...

I recently researched the use of digital badges with a focus on using them for professional development. I’m posting some of the research in case it might be useful to anyone else in the Canvas community. Planning (Badge Planning Considerations)In Di...

We've created a module in Canvas Commons:  Using Badges (with Badgr) in your Canvas Courseto help faculty create and implement Badges [uses Canva and Badgr] in their course. There is also an Assignment, which has been shared via Canvas Commonthat tie...

Previously, I created a table in which I tried to clarify what settings within Canvas controlled access to a course site for students (Table: Control of Student Access to a Course). At the time it made sense to me, but even after I made it and then r...

Ho Ho Ho….. Merry Canvasmas!!!!! Christmas is upon us and we decided here at the College of Learning and Teaching at the University of Wolverhampton to do 24 day's of canvasmas . The Canvasmas advent calendar is bursting with tips and tricks, with on...

NB: This is the fourth post in a series on what we learned in our Fall 2017 Blueprint Course pilot. The previous posts provide an overview of our experience (Lessons Learned about Blueprint Courses: Introduction), address how we got buy-in from teach...

NB: This is the third post in a series on what we learned in our Fall 2017 Blueprint Course pilot. The previous posts provide an overview of our experience (Lessons Learned about Blueprint Courses: Introduction) and address how we got buy-in from tea...

VoiceThread allows teachers to upload, share, and discuss documents, presentations, images, audio files, and videos. Teachers and students can leave comments and use annotation tools to mark up the presented material. With VoiceThread, teachers and s...

NB: This is the second post in a series on what we learned in our Fall 2017 Blueprint Course pilot. The previous post provides an overview of our experience (Lessons Learned about Blueprint Courses: Introduction), and  later posts consider our "faile...

NB: This is the first post in a series on what we learned in our Fall 2017 Blueprint Course pilot. This post provides an overview of our experience, and later posts address how we got buy-in from teaching teams and administrative stakeholders for our...

Many instructors include YouTube and other internet videos in their Canvas courses. However, not all videos are captioned by the video creators. YouTube doesn’t allow captioning of videos unless we own them and 3PlayMedia charges a fee. We use Techsm...

The ProblemOur number one Canvas help issue the past several years revolves around student's submitting Google Docs, Slides or Sheets via the built-in Google Drive integrations. We switched to the new Google Drive LTI tool this year and that has prov...

PurposeThe purpose of this guide is to establish the available parent access options.Please select the preferred workflow from the list below:Provisioning Parent Accounts: your administration creates Canvas accounts for parents.Parent App: parents wi...

We know that plagiarism is not limited to the papers that students submit to Assignments and that copied words can be used for Discussion replies as well as answers to Quiz questions. One of the things that I like about the native integration of Veri...

I hadn't found anything in the community that aggregated the information, so I thought I'd share some details from an interaction I had with Canvas Support while researching which content applies to which quotas. The info is all out there in differen...

Universal Design for Learning is ultimately about disturbing tradition in education. In fact, it may be among the most disturbing things to happen in education in the 21st century. And that's a good thing. What is Universal Design for Learning?Univer...

I already posted a blog entry on Using Google Slides to Make an Image Rotator‌, and  @lumleysm ‌'s question on Video - Autoplay and Loop prompted me to see if the same thing could work for videos. It does!I begin in Google Slides:Add a YouTube video ...

[UPDATE: See this updated and expanded accessibility checklist: https://bit.ly/canvasaccessibility ]Sometimes I'll forget about one or more of these tools when building a course, so I thought I'd list them here as a reminder for others, too.  Use all...

It has been a slow and exciting week for me with Canvas. I had a session booked with David Norton from Instructure UK, to go over a handful of Canvas features. What I have learnt is that there really is a great team and a lot more support behind Canv...

I like to give one grade for group assignments, but I then run into a problem for students who do not participate at all in a given assignment (or for whatever reason need a score that differs from their teammates'). The embedded video demonstrates t...

Update August 9, 2018Canvas has provided their own, much more awesome, solution to this with the July 14, 2018, release. Documentation is available in the Canvas Admin Guide What user roles and permissions are available in Canvas? The Canvancement no...

I thought some of you might be interested in a presentation that I delivered earlier this week at Quality Matters 'Connect' conference in nearby Ft. Worth. The session focused on how we're using the Continuing Professional Education (CPE) standards a...

I work with an instructor who has her students take pictures of themselves doing course activities, and she wants to share those pictures with the rest of her class. Without a learning management system, she would create a PowerPoint presentation and...

It has been a busy week here at school and we still managed to find time for Canvas. More thinking time than action, equally important. Our Teaching and Learning lead has eployed Canvas as a platform for... learning about our teaching model and... le...

Overview: A method for minimizing the work involved in copying and creating courses by reusing content using php and a database.Time wasters:I have 14 different courses I teach and sometimes different versions of those courses (full-term, half-term, ...

For faculty development programs we're developing, we've been working at aligning UDL, Good Learning Principles (based on Gee's 13 principles), and Canvas Tools. I'm coming up with things like the following, but am interested in seeing what others ar...