I'll be honest. Our distance education courses are on rolling enrollment so while I've understood the concept of differentiated assignments, I've never given them much thought because there is no real use for differentiated assignments when on rollin...

In a studio art classroom, it is difficult to be 100% paperless. Projects and sketches aside, I have been operating my classes digitally for three years. I initially started with another LMS, and after my school adopted Canvas in 2014, I’ve happily b...

Canvas can be a great tool to support teaching and learning in face-to-face environments. Used appropriately, Canvas can help manage your class by delivering course-related activities and resources in a streamlined fashion. Unfortunately, there are a...

Many thanks go out to  @kenneth_larsen  and the CIDI team at Utah State University, who built a fantastic Canvas Template Engine that make course creation a breeze!   However, there are many moving parts to get KennethWare 2.0 working inside of your ...

Thanks to everyone who posted ideas for the Student Canvas Tips.I've created a .pdf file out of these wonderful suggestions so that people can download and share/use this file as desired.Here is an updated version. I hope this is helpful.Cheers!Leona...

While it's awesome that Canvas can import SCORM files (thank you!), it can be frustrating if you want to see the learners' responses and not just a final score. Here's a pretty cool work around. It requires jQuery and a Google spreadsheet, but I'm no...

I had an instructor ask me recently whether it was possible to create an assignment in the Grade Book via an Excel upload. I couldn't find an answer by searching the community, so I tested it out myself. I figured that I should share the results of m...

Disclaimer: This is really silly and you probably shouldn't do it but it's fun to know what's possible.Did you know you can grade with emoji in Canvas? It's true!  All you have to do is create a grading scheme like you normally would (How do I create...

If you are the type of teacher who spent hours building out beautiful PowerPoints with lots of transitions and things, you may have noticed that the Canvas document viewer strips all of that out. A solution is to upload your PowerPoint to Google Driv...

A lot of teachers want students to turn in a Google Doc as a homework assignment. This document will show you how to let student turn in an Google doc assignment (so you can annotate) without having to download the Google Doc as a Word Document befor...

This is one of the most useful tricks that I've learned about using Google docs and Canvas. This is especially useful for distributing documents that you want students to turn back into you. Be aware that in order for you to have access to each stude...

This is a great way for students to participate on the same document without having to leave Canvas. Note: This is not the best way to distribute documents that students need to make individual edits on.1. Open up the Google Doc in Google Drive2. Cli...

Some people for some reason really don't like the Canvas Files manager. So I'm just going to show that if you'd rather use Google Drive to Manage your files you can. I'd still recommend using Canvas Files to make things easier for your students. Howe...

UPDATE - January 2017If you haven't already taken a look at the new Google LTI integration, it does a pretty good job at replacing a lot of the things below. So before you check out the below links, I'd recommend seeing if the integration will suit y...

I've written a user script that will add the Login ID and SIS User ID (if you're using them) to the User Search from the Admin page in Canvas.Quick InstallFor those power users who are impatient, here are the quick install steps.Install a browser add...

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Embedded Folder (List View)Embedded Folder (Grid View)My district has heavy Google Drive users.  Using the publish to the web feature of Docs and Slides has really helped promote the use of Canvas.  However, Google doesn't give that option for folde...

BackgroundI'm sure that we all have horror stories about people changing settings and chaos ensuing!  Thus, In Permissions, Separate Manage (add/edit/delete) courses into 3 permissions posted by Susan Hicks (UCF-CDL)Need and RationaleAs admins, we ne...

New! July 9, 2018 Posted by Erin Hallmark: Permissions Name Updates (2018-07-14 Canvas Release) - the Permissions page includes updates to permissions names, which have also been grouped according to function. No permissions functionality has been af...

I spent my morning learning about infographics from the person behind Cool Infographics, a site that shares infographics the site creator finds interesting or useful. I am new to the world of infographic creation, but have been experimenting with the...

The scenarioLet’s say that you have created your eLearning modules using an author tool such as Adobe Captivate and now you need to track students’ progress. As Canvas is not scorm compliant you have to think of other ways to achieve that.Possible so...

Several people have asked for my code that I've used to mess around with the new UI.Here's a screenshot of what some of the code affects based on the code below:Here’s a copy and paste of most of my important CSS tweaks related to the new UI.  Anythi...

On our current LMS we are able to use as much external CSS and JavaScript as we dare to use, which has enabled us to do some nice things that haven't converted so well to Canvas. In transitioning to Canvas we decided to ditch the HTML and go with Pag...

Are you thinking of ways to gamify your eLearning modules? Are those modules created with Articulate, Captivate or Lectora?If you have answered yes to both questions, then these posts will be useful for you. I found them in elearningbrothers.com blog...

The purpose of this blog is to collect strategies from the schools that are using Canvas Commons as a master course repository and to attempt to centralize already-existing Community resources in a single easily-accessible place.Since the launch of C...

Today I added an on-screen protractor for measuring angles in quiz questions. It can be toggled on and off from any question, and can be dragged around and rotated into position to overlay an image in order to measure an angle. This is the first of a...

I've been playing with ways to leverage the available jQuery elements in Canvas and when I came across the pop-up dialogs, it seemed like a great way to create a simple vocabulary study sheet.  The purpose of this is different than using a quiz.  A q...

SynopsisThis Google Sheet will allow teachers to bulk publish, unpublish, or delete their wiki pages from a single spreadsheet page.Canvas has created their own solution to bulk deleting pages that will be available in the August 15, 2020, release. M...

At Eastern Washington University we've built an LTI called Threadz that is open sourse and available for anyone to install at their own institution.  Threadz is a discussion visualization tool that adds graphs and statistics to Canvas discussions.Onl...