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...

It seems that my original post has disappeared with the launch of the much more awesome community site, so if it is somewhere already my apologies for the double post.One of the things my team at Rowan University is getting into is Analytics, not nec...

Here's some HTML code that will allow you to use the Rich Content Editor to wrap text around an image on a Canvas page.Using a Flicker link (this image will appear to the right of the text):<p><img style="padding: 0 15px; float: right;" src="https://...

Thanks to Neal Johnson for developing this quiz question creation process.Many teachers like to create quiz questions in which their students are asked to match images with identifying text. The multiple dropdown quiz question type will easily accomm...

At the University of Delaware, we support two Learning Management Systems. We have been running Sakai ever since Blackboard bought out WebCT, and now we have added Canvas. Migration to Canvas is entirely optional. We really are not pressuring people ...

BackgroundDue to Financial Aid Federal Regulations our College must show the last date of attendance for dropped students. For online students we define attendance as the last date the student submitted any type of assignment in Canvas. The Business ...

BackgroundAt Richland Community College all students must complete an online student orientation before they are able to access their courses in Canvas. For more information on our Orientation itself see the following article - http://files.eric.ed.g...

Many institutions create the same type of account-level roles. This document talks about the most commonly used account-level roles in Canvas and their permissions. If you need help customizing your account-level roles, please contact your Customer S...