Collaborative spreadsheets and presentations will be very useful in helping to promote learner interaction in our online courses! While waiting for a plumber at my house over the weekend, I decided to watch  and it was a very worthwhile video. I coul...

Priority: Quizzes.Next‌ Canvas Focus Group: Printing Quizzes‌I want to chime in (again) about the issue of question/quiz interoperability particularly as it relates to bulk import into Canvas.The original blog, Batch Uploading Quiz Questions with Res...

ContextIn our school district, I strive to limit global announcements to one-per-month and use them exclusively for Canvas-related tips, resources, and learning opportunities. Here's a recent example:These announcements auto-open and close using the ...

What can Canvas design strategies learn from game design? How can we use what Canvas allows (Mechanics) to structure what students can do (Dynamics) in ways that encourage them to learn effectively and contribute to a course culture (Aesthetics) that...

Within the state of Utah we have been hosting an Instructional Design Summit for the past few years. Our blog (Instructional Design Summit) has slides and recordings from previous summits. Our most recent summit was held at the University of Utah and...

This collaborative document was created to help organize Orientation and Training Courses that are available for other Institutions to use. All registered users can "Edit" this doc and add their information.IMPORTANT: this is a collaborative doc, so ...

On September 16, 2017, Canvas added an Admin CSV option to the Provisioning Report. It provides most of the information here and is built-into Canvas rather than being an external solution. It does require that you combine information from multiple t...

This is still something funky with the personal blog permissions, so I am posting this here, and, as always, its crossposted at my Teaching with Canvas blog, which is where you will find any updates. ~ ~ ~In my Twitter4Canvas workshop and in the Can...

Whoo-hoo! Up until now I had been blogging in Group spaces, but I was getting confused about what I had blogged where.Now I will blog... HERE! And then I can share to other spaces as appropriate.Thanks so much to  @biray ‌ for launching the new perso...

Students are filling out Canvas Surveys this week as part of my mid-semester evaluation process, and I'll be reporting back on that after Spring Break... one survey result popped up yesterday, though, that caught my attention because for the question...

I did this prompted by a conversation with  @scottdennis ‌ , and I've crossposted in my Teaching with Canvas blog; updates will appear there. Meanwhile, if you are interested in this kind of topic, I'm shamelessly asking people to vote up my request ...

CROSSPOSTED. Updates will appear at my CanvasLIVE Playground blog. This post explains how to embed Flickr in Canvas, and the same procedure can be used for Pinterest, as explained here:Pinterest in Canvas ~ ~ ~I've got a Flickr album with my Growth M...

I'm a huge fan of Pinterest, one of the ways I use it for my classes is to create a Board for each class each semester where I pin the stories in my students' projects. The projects are up and running now, so here are the Boards: Myth-Folklore and In...

I originally started participating in Canvas Community because our Canvas roll-out team set up a University of Oklahoma group, but I just recently learned that contributions made to that private group don't benefit the larger Community at all; they d...

CROSSPOSTED. Updates will appear at Teaching with Canvas blog.  ~ ~ ~ I teach General Education courses in the Humanities, and that means I welcome any opportunity to share with my students the wealth of literature, art, and music that is online. I c...

CROSSPOSTED. Updates will appear at Teaching with Canvas blog. I've posted this in the Instructional Designers group, but it would be the kind of post that I would otherwise put into a Connected Learning group if we can get something like that here a...

Last week I went to check to see if a student had completed some assignments from earlier in the semester, and when I clicked, I saw a new panel pop up; here's what it looks like for the Test Student:From  @Chris_Hofer  I learned that this is a new "...

CROSSPOSTED. Updates will appear at Teaching with Canvas blog.  And no, this is not really a post about Canvas per se... it's a post about a great tool to use to fill a gap in the Canvas tool ecosystem: if you want your students to create websites, a...

CROSSPOSTED. Updates will appear at Teaching with Canvas blog.  ~ ~ ~ One of my favorite motivational posters happened to pop up today when I checked something on my class calendar, and that prompted me to write up a post here about how I integrated ...

In this blog, I'll explain how our College uses a custom "Viewer" role in conjunction with "master" courses. This blog expands on part of a Twitter chat conversation I hosted on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 called #CanvasChat: Managing Masters. But fir...

How does one effectively train faculty on a new LMS?Training faculty, especially in a large organization with diverse faculty needs is challenging to say the least. I work at a community college with full-time, part-time, and adjunct faculty who teac...

I've written an Rubric Importer user script that will allow you to copy a rubric from a spreadsheet like Excel or Google Sheets and paste it into a textbox inside Canvas and then automatically turn it into a rubric within Canvas. Many feature request...

Each Monday I post a Global Announcement listing the up-coming CanvasLIVE sessions that are happening for that week.  I have noticed over the past few weeks that several CanvasLIVE events are being streamed over YouTube.  This got me thinking yesterd...

Highcharts are embeddable, interactive, JavaScript charts for your web pages.  Someone recently pointed me to the UTK web site which was displaying several demographic graphs on a page.  I found that the graphs were being generated by an application ...

I have seen several Canvas admins who love the "access dates" on terms, but are hesitant to use them because they have MANY terms that would need to be adjusted.  Currently, it must be done through the UI, one-at-a-time and can be quite time consumin...

BackgroundRecently a department asked me for a solution to their grading scheme.  In this case the department has multiple criteria for passing a course.  The first criteria is that you must have a passing grade for your course work, which the Canvas...

For faculty who give incomplete grades *and* expect students to complete their work within the learning management system, note that student data (assignment submissions, grades, discussion entries, access statistics) *is not included* in a D2L expor...

Thoughts from Ryan Craig, author of "College Disrupted".https://www.higheredjobs.com/blog/postDisplay.cfm?blog=15&post=730&Title=Smartphones%20and%20the%20Decline%20and%20Fall%…

Cleaning up files today and getting ready for our Spring Training schedule and I came across a Checklist that we created and handed out to faculty when we transitioned from Angel to Canvas a couple of years ago. I took out the Angel references and di...

A couple of months old, but Mastery Paths gets a Feldstein mention: http://mfeldstein.com/instructurecon-2016-company-still-formidable-misunderstood/