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 ...

Lately I've been busy as a bee, cross pollinating between the tips stefaniesanders shared in Creating an inviting course home page and the HTML Snippets  @G_Petruzella  shared in Columns Without Tables: code-snippet. Back and forth I went until I fin...

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This might be of interest to those using Panopto in their Canvas courses.With this release there will be a new Groups page for Admins in Panopto, this may be significant to us Canvas users as the Canvas /Panopto integration we use here at Birmingham ...

I am not sure if this is the correct place to share this... Meh, let's see how it works.Evidently my popularity has been growing over the years with this specific topic. I have helped many with integrating Adobe Connect into Canvas. At least in tryin...

Ok, so your an Admin that has the fortune to have Adobe Connect integrated into Canvas. If you have not done it yet, here are some destructions: Canvas Integration with Adobe Connect (Once the blog postings are approved, I'll update the links. )Let's...

Hopefully this is the better location for this information. Evidently my popularity has been growing over the years with this specific topic. I have helped many with integrating Adobe Connect into Canvas. At least in trying to get it to work.Hopefull...

[Credit to  @John_Lowe , who first shared this solution to a question posed by  @stevebudd .]Use case: I want to give students a series of related videos, and would like to keep them on the same Page/etc. yet not build a table of video frames or link...

Despite my efforts to persuade them otherwise, often times we are asked for something physical regarding steps to do things in Canvas. We found an old "cheat sheet" on the web and updated it and removed some stuff to make it fit on one page (front an...

This tutorial will go over how to embed videos, lessons and other information, from sources such as YouTube, Quizlet, and Khan Academy into your course from the Public Resources LTI. While you can get an LTI for each of these sources individually, th...

I maintain a "Lab" course to demo various tools and other cool things as I encounter them. (And to remind myself too.  I find it's a pretty good place for faculty to browse - and potentially discover something they'll want to try out. The course has...

 @kona ​ created this awesome document in CanvasLIVE : it provides extensive guidance on how best to utilize Canvas quiz settings to maximize the integrity and security of assessing students with quizzes. The document explains how to randomize questi...

In case your institution doesn’t have any connections to a Student Information System (SIS) and you have to manage enrolments manually, than the SIS import feature could be your best friend. Same goes for creating users when university authentication...

OneDrive is Microsoft's answer to Google Drive and is tightly integrated in Office 2013. This makes it super easy to save files in Word and PowerPoint directly to your OneDrive account. From OneDrive you can embed documents into Canvas. I like this o...

Yeah, I know - who uses drop-caps anymore? But I like their panache. And it's a win when you can build an elegant - and accessible - drop-caps styled paragraph with a tiny tweak.To add a fancy, elegant visual style to your paragraphs (while keeping y...

If you create a document in Google Drive, you can click on File > Publish to the Web > Publish to generate a link or embed code. The embed code can be used anywhere in Canvas where the Rich Content Editor is available to you (switching views to the H...

I'm sure over 90% of people know some of these tricks but I always like to share stuff just in case someone doesn't know some ways to get things back in Canvas.Recovering things in a courseAs a former Blackabord admin I always got that cold feeling i...

The following document was created to help our faculty better understand quiz settings and how they can be used to enhance quiz security. In many cases locking down a quiz as much as possible (ex: not allowing students to review what they got wrong o...

New link to Quiz Settings to Maximize Security

UPDATED ON 6/9/2015 DUE TO BETTER FILE BROWSING TURNED ON FOR ALL CANVAS USERS AS OF 6/6/2015.In order to embed a Flash file (*.swf) in a Canvas course, you'll need to paste the following line of code into the WYSIWYG editor (the HTML side) of a Canv...

Outcome: make a single image with multiple clickable regions to point to multiple URIs.General overview:Upload the base image ("map") into the course Files.Create an *.html document (in Notepad or similar), in which you'll specify the coordinates on ...

Tables - I really don't like them. I find them unwieldy to manipulate and style, plus they're really not accessibility-friendly as commonly employed. But they've always seemed the only way to solve certain visual alignment problems: for example, crea...

IntroductionWhat is "Feedback Studio"?Does Feedback Studio alter any functionality?As a local Canvas Administrator, how do I configure the Turnitin LTI?Can my institution enable both the API version and the LTI version as we transition to the LTI?Wha...

The course home page is a critical navigation waypoint for students. As course designers, we can choose from numerous style ideas to make the course home page inviting and intuitive for our students.This is a stripped-down version of a course home pa...