Inspired by Deactivated user​'s awesome post Welcome Back - Start of School 2015-2016!​ I sought to create a visual guide or presentation that could be used by anyone that needed to give an update to their staff or students on some of the new changes...

Update: August 26, 2017This was one of my early works and before I learned how to package it to make it easy for people to use. I've repackaged it and made it act more like the other Canvancements I've written. The script still worked after these two...

Quick InstallMake sure a user script manager such as Tampermonkey is installed and enabled.Install the sort-rubric.users.js fileMore information is available on my Sort a Rubric Canvancement page.Update: October 24, 2019With the October 23, 2019, dep...

SynopsisThis will show how you can execute two lines of JavaScript code inside your browser that will add drag and drop functionality to a rubric and allow you change the order of the criteria.IntroductionBack in April,  @Chris_Hofer ​ created a feat...

If you have recently purchased HMH Common Cartridge text books, you may have found that they are extremely large and import into Canvas as one GIANT module that is extremely time consuming to break apart.  We have discovered a (completely unsupported...

If any of you have practicums in your embedded in your courses and/or if you are a public school teacher, can you please add one objective/skill  you would want pre-service teachers to have when they join the teaching field. Please feel free to add t...

(I originally posted this as a comment to but figured it was worth having here for others)I thought it might be helpful to share my strategies for locating the page and offending link when I am troubleshooting a broken link issue. In this example le...

At Instructurecon this year, I presented a session on badges. While there are several solutions for badging that integrate with Canvas and more being developed, my current favorite is Canvabadges. More than platform and how to make badges, I think it...

In this episode, recorded on July 2,  @kona ​ joined me to talk about instcon 2015 and the Canvas community. Episode 0.5 by The Canvas Podcast

Updated 9/16/16 with new screen shots to reflect changes in user interface and rich content editor. I anticipate that this could be a problem on our campus as most of our courses are converted WebCT 6 courses.  One of our instructors gracious allowed...

    Official Canvas DocumentCanvas PagesCanvas ModulesHome PageCollaboration/Wiki PageContent PageResource PageStructure of your CourseControl Access to Content (by date, Pre-Requisite or/and Order)Set Completion CriteriaThings to Consider:What type ...

Guest Host:Kent Gruber and Sam BachertTopics of Discussion:Beta Release Notes https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-4170Recurring calendar feature (big one that people have really wanted)Submit and Re-Submit button placementRename Course Catalog t...

I have a few Chrome browser settings and extensions that I thought might be useful to other admins, and would bet that many others in the community have developed other shortcuts to save time. Please share yours in the comments!Easily search for a us...

I've been working with one of our instructors for several months and helping him with Groups he's got set up in his course.  One of the challenges he's had is there isn't an easy way to find the student groups links from an instructor's point of view...

Animated GifsWe've all seen animated gifs on the internet. They are nice because it's a short animation without the need of hosting a video file somewhere like YouTube. I've been using them in some of my Technology Training courses when a felt like a...

End of Year GuideAuthored by  @clong This guide is a collaborative effort to help you end your school year or terms smoothly. By carefully considering these  recommendations you should have the information you need to take the right actions for your ...

Deactivated user​ requested that I post this here. Honestly, it feels sort of odd to write an entire blog post about a single API endpoint, but here goes.When installing External Tools (aka Apps, aka LTI tools), especially from commercial publishers,...

 @kedgecomb ​ created these helpful resources for inserting grid lines into tables that have been copied and pasted from Excel and Word tables:Add Gridlines to a copied table from Microsoft ExcelAdd Gridlines to a copied table from Microsoft Word

Please note that Instructure is no longer using jQuery in their designs or development. jQuery is presently part of Canvas and Instructure currently has no plans to change this. jQueryUI is a separate library that has historically been available in C...

I had seen this in Any way to annotate a Page in Canvas?​ where  @Chris_Hofer ​ and stefaniesanders​ explained how to use this to "annotate a page" in Canvas, but forgot about it until this morning when it came up again in the office. Here is a quick...

I’m sure many course designers would agree that the need to quickly create a structure or repeat action should be able to be achieved with as few clicks as possible. That does not quite align with the official response to the feature request to “Copy...

Time / DateFriday, June 26th, 3pm MST, 6pm EDT, 10pm UTC.Pre-Show DiscussionDiscuss first two episode postingsFollow-Up on logo and intro/outro musicaudio check to make sure recording is functioningTopics of Discussion:Stuff we didn't get to from Jun...

Let's get together and talk about the conference. Here are the details.The Canvas Podcast - InstructureCon 2015 EditionTime / Date / PlaceThursday, June 18th, 3:45pm - Whenever (Park City Time)Red Tail Restaurant in the Grand Summit HotelPre-Show Dis...

All,Deactivated user​ chided me for not sharing this idea/resource so I am trying to be a good monkey (panda?) and share! So here is my now archived training and resource aggregation Canvas site I created: https://sjsu.instructure.com/courses/1077576...

Hello all,The second session of The Canvas Podcast will be this Friday, June 12th at 3pm MST, 6pm EDT, 10pm UTC.As always, anyone is welcome to participate. You will need a Google account for connecting to the Hangout.Main goal for this session is to...

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With the new calendar feature I thought it would be good to create a list of great resources for finding or creating your own hex colors to use with the calendar. What is Hex Color?From the Wikipedia it states:A hex triplet is a six-digit, three-byte...

Most publishers need to do certain things like see the list of users, manage assignments and quizzes, manage content, and edit grades but shouldn't have access to things like becoming other users or creating new courses.  Other vendors need a more li...

We've given our faculty the option to put a widget on their homepage that populates all the Announcements that are made in the course so it's a streamlined list for students.  It's been a helpful addition, so I wanted to share the code so others can ...

I WISH I could take credit for discovering this, but my colleague  @sgraff ​ told me about this.If you want to copy something in your course, assignment, quiz, rubric, etc, there IS a way!Go to settings>import content>copy canvas course.   Then do a ...