I was a lucky guesser in the partnertrivia and won some fun swag during #CanvasTrivia: Partner Day Edition (2017-08-24) . It was a good idea from panda because it makes us curious about the partner services. tl;dr: partners should send all Canvas use...

In my previous life, I taught English, and one of my favorite texts to teach was Margaret Atwood's novel, The Handmaid's Tale.  I am working with two faculty members (one here at Union and one at Montclair State) this semester to build a student-writ...

I just created instructions for a faculty member who uses Quizlet so that she can integrate the flashcards within Canvas. There were resources in the Canvas Community about Quizlet along with other LTI's, but nothing (that I could find) that provided...

It has been a relatively positive pre-teaching week as far as Canvas is concerned. Beyond making the course look attractive, it is about thinking, learning, and the learning with can orchestrate for our students. I have tended to readily design my ow...

I posted a couple of questions regarding grading MyLab content in Canvas the other day to a thread called What are your experiences with Pearson MyLab LTI?:Can I change the points to 0 points after the grade sync, so that the assignment is extra cred...

Our instructors use the cross-listing tool to put multiple classes into the same Canvas course. One has a group activity where her students who pick the same topic work together to submit a group assignment. Since she has cross-listed two face-to-fac...

Good Grief! Wait, can grief be good? Can struggle and toil produce something good? Absolutely. This is the story of my current good grief.Many semesters ago, in a previous LMS, I had a faculty member introduce me to the concept of Team Based Learning...

As everyone probably knows, Canvas will slowly be getting rid of enhanceable_content/jQuery UI, including the pop-up dialogs (accordions are already gone). Below is way to get the effect of a dialog, but using the "element_toggler" ability instead. I...

Over at KristianStill – BELONG – RESPECT – ASPIRE – ACHIEVE  I posted this early exploration into making Canvas courses appear more enticing. Now I find myself review the Canvas Instructional Designers pages.This week, on the back of the InstructureC...

Update 1/1/2020. The new rich content editor is available in beta and will be available in production in the January 2020 release. See my new post about the new rich content editor for the latest updates. January 18, 2020 Release NotesCanvas Release:...

 ** This content is out of date and will not be updated as of 8/22/17 **First things first: Unplag is pro-nounced "un-PLAH-g"  Took us a while to figure that out too. IntroductionOur School had been previously using Turnitin as our main Plagiarism t...

An instructor came to my department with a question and that was how to share the same content with students who are taking multiple classes across a multi-year program. The particular example in this case is a set of protocols covering the steps tha...

This is the pdf of the survey we send out to students once a year via Survey Monkey.

How to support new instructorsThis is of course my own perspective, based on first using Bb (boo hiss) and then migrating to Canvas.Get them into the institution's Canvas training ASAP.  Do this even if the user believes he/she won't need it.Be compl...

Agents,I recently received transmission that chronicles event from our latest gathering,InstructureCon 2017. It appears that many agents may be compromised in the video. I was able to identify myself at the 00:57 mark as shown in the image below.Fort...

Greetings, fellow Canvas Designers!I have been a lurker here for quite a few years, but am trying to participate more in the community.  I am wondering if anyone else is using commercial video games (Fallout, Mass Effects, GTA, etc.) to teach, and, i...

So the other night I was perusing the Twitter-verse and came across this gem (tweet by lccarrillo, re-tweeted by  @teraulbert ). To say it caught my attention would be an understatement. My response was where do I get this & could it really work? Wha...

Blueprint Courses were introduced with the June 24, 2017 release and are one of the coolest features introduced by Canvas, in this writer's humble opinion.  As an administrator, I thought it was a no-brainer to turn it on immediately on our campus. (...

For admins who do dozens of searches per day on Canvas, here are a couple of tips that save a few clicks (and a few seconds) each time. I use these many times a day. (This post is an adaptation of the "Customer Lightning Round" 10-minute presentation...

This video is currently being processed. Please try again in a few minutes.(view in My Videos)EDU App Center: http://www.eduappcenter.com/tools/xml_builder#/new Please note: You will need to first create an account and then use the link above to buil...

Some of my colleagues and I were fortunate enough to attend InstructureCon 2015 and InstructureCon 2016, but our budget is grounding us during InstructureCon 2017. So, I’m very glad that the Trivia quizzes  #IC17Trivia: Field Agent (7-26-2017) will b...

24 Jan 2019 Update: This guide is still relevant, but you should also learn more about some new features that have been released since this was posted. Thanks for all the comments and feedback that helped me understand where the knowledge gaps and co...

For the last several years I’ve been developing a library of Python code that makes my life as Samuel Merritt University’s Canvas admin easier and enables me to turn institutional ideas into reality. Though I’ve always intended to share this code wit...

The rich content editor is a useful tool in Canvas but often students lose content when they accidentally hit a wrong key that wipes out their almost written post. This can be extremely frustrating for students and those who support them. Update: The...

Permissions are always an interesting thing to discuss. Everyone has a slightly different take on what "permissions" mean and what to associate with this project. I'm going to use this space to hopefully house the thoughts from the breakout session f...

Until this week, I had little experience with Canvas, other than using it in Professional Development, basically as a student myself. I took a step outside of my comfort zone and signed up for a Canvas Expert course. This course pushed me to explore ...

According to Canvas documentation on using video embed code on Pages, designers are instructed to use the HTML Editor. While many designers are probably versed in finding the right spot for embeds, I'm guessing there have been occasions where code ge...

ChallengePros to embedding an html document in an iframeCons & Complications to embedding an html document in an iframeSolutionVideo TutorialStep-by-step TutorialWhat We Will NeedGetting the .htmlFile Readyfor UploadCreating the <iframe>ConclusionCha...

Within my PLC we have effectively used Canvas modules to re-loop skills after students take a common assessment.  Each test item was linked to a standard and we set up Mastery Paths based on students' performance on each standard.  Using this method ...