Email is an important part of my communications, and I am very happy with the ability to receive Canvas notifications via email. Whether questions from students, comments attached to assignment submissions, or replies to discussions, it makes my use ...

I find instructors struggling with how to balance the length of content pages and the length of the Modules page. If a page is too long, students might feel overwhelmed with contemplating how long it will take to read all that material (a point for b...

When you add images to questions in a quiz the rich content editor browser is available so the process is fairly simple; however, the process of adding images to questions in question banks requires several more steps. Also, it is important to keep i...

This video is currently being processed. Please try again in a few minutes.(view in My Videos)Image Map link:Image Map Tool - On-line Image Map Creator - HTML & CSS | Image-Maps.com Attached below are some files to toy with before building your own i...

A New PerspectiveDemoWhat You Will NeedCreating a 360° Image with Street ViewSetupTaking Your 360° PhotoModifying the Photo for Mobile Device CompatabilityResizing Your PhotoUploading the Photo to imgurUsing Pannellum & Embedding in Canvas ContentFin...

A dedicated minority of  students will always try to take shortcuts no matter what an instructor does, but some of the more cautious cheaters avoid plagiarizing on major assignments like papers and exams precisely because they know such assignments r...

Learner Interaction promotes engagement, cognitive presence and retention in online courses. Research into the effectiveness of interaction with classmates is described on pages 13-14 of Learning Effectiveness Online: What the Research Tells Us. Out ...

Our Nursing Faculty are starting to use Canvas Rubrics to grade students in real-time on their mobile devices. They use the SpeedGrader app on their smartphones during clinicals, which even allows them to use speech to text when adding comments for s...

In the question User Creation Report ,  @lecia_sims1  askedIs there a report I can run that will show when a user was added and how? Ex. I want to know who was added by SIS and who was added manually. In addition, if manually, which individual with a...

This post has information on how to use our new service for plagiarism detection (VeriCite).For Canvas:VeriCite is integrated seamlessly with the Assignment tool inside Canvas. Step-by-step instructions are available online: How do I add a VeriCite a...

Instructure has created a new tool called DocViewer, which serves the purposes now met by the Box and Crocodoc tools. These are the tools that allow documents to be embedded within Canvas pages (Box) and for instructors to provide inline comments and...

I came up with this idea of a website that will help my canvas users to Create Simple Buttons. I also wanted to integrate it somehow with canvas. I was able to build the site and then I used the IFrame function to pin it to my canvas page. Here is wh...

Before I start with my blog, I want to give credit to Huston Hall from Eastern Washington University. His online post inspired me to do this. I wanted to create this blog because I did a lot of online research and could not find everything I needed i...

We are frequently asked how various institutions choose to nest their sections inside of courses. In other words, what are the most popular nesting methods used to populate enrollments into sections, and place those sections into courses within Canva...

This morning Phil Hill posted a new blog on the "State of Higher Ed LMS Market for US and Canada: Spring 2017 Edition." The main focal point of this is the "squid graphic" he puts together showing LMS providers and their growth (in terms of number of...

HI Everyone,As a relatively new user (under 12 months) we are constantly discovering things that Canvas can do and how we can match it to the needs of our students. I am sure people have already discovered this, but I thought it was worthy to share. ...

Recently I've been working with a few different faculty to move their first classes from traditional to strictly online. Its been a great learning experience for them and me both — they get to start digging into topics like accessibility, I get to st...

Students have a lot to think about and remember, especially if they are taking multiple classes. This can easily lead to not viewing course content or missing assignments. What I've done to help my students keep track of what they've done and haven't...

A Ph.D. student at Northwestern developed "Nebula" discussions for Canvas. Rather than a traditional discussion format, Nebula utilizes interactive graphs that resemble a concept map...New App Shows Online Discussions as Interactive Graphs | News | N...

The ChallengeCanvas does a pretty good job of handling responsive design via the Rich Content Editor, but, if there is one thing that I have found I am not the biggest fan of, it is the video thumbnails. Dropping a video into a course and having it s...

September 2018 Update: I was informed by the sales rep that there is no longer a free version of dropthought. Since that stops me from using it, I thought it might prevent others from trying it out. Teachers are always looking for ways to obtain feed...

I'd love to get people's ideas and feedback on this Canvas professional development program that we're working on. We're finding that our faculty are moving to Canvas with some ease, but most are not taking the opportunity to really improve their tea...

This document will show how to move the current course to the top of the "Find a Rubric" dialog and optionally sort and filter the information to make it easier to find rubrics.The before list on the left has 30 items in a mostly random order. The af...

You may already provide students with your static PowerPoint presentations in the File section of your course. To make this content more engaging, you could take that same PowerPoint file and narrate the slides. It may be best to break up long slide ...

Multimedia is great way to provide students with additional modalities. Below are some of the ways you can get audio/visual content in your course. It is important to note that content should be optimized for the web before adding it your course and ...

ContextWe use publicly visible courses for three primary reasons: To allow us to use Canvas for training and/or professional learning purposes with a variety of audiences while not requiring a user account or login in our Canvas instance.To host publ...

This is a document on Dropout Detective that I provide for my faculty. It covers the different features and some best practices.

In order to save you time and maximize the resources your institution has paid for, we have created a guide for you to follow when Canvas questions arise and what avenue of assistance you should use.   When to file a ticket/reach out to SupportWhen t...

 Please Read the Following before using this guide This document is for a legacy implementation of Google Analytics on a deprecated version of Google Analytics no longer offered by Google. Do not attempt to use it. Instructure no longer uses Google ...

ContextAnyone supporting Canvas users for awhile has discovered the need to frequently troubleshoot issues in response to vague statements like, "Things don't look right" or "I can't see it." Therefore, less experienced Canvas admins might find this ...