Canvas allows instructors to give individual students extra time or attempts on quizzes, however, extending time on quizzes for specific students will only work if the instructor has not put an availability restriction on the quiz that does not allow...

Users may experience blank or missing content when accessing Zoom or other tools from within Canvas if their third-party cookies are blocked. To resolve this issue, follow the instructions below or see the enable third-party cookies in your browser P...

We wanted to share the following article about Developing Program Level Assessment in Canvas: https://itsupport.umd.edu/itsupport?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0013527 Enjoy!  

We love the AWESOME new feature “Canvas for Elementary.” In our desire to support any and all users who have enabled this interface, we’re providing a free resource you can find in Canvas Commons, Canvas for Elementary | Course Card/Banners. Simply i...

It is a monthly update from the Turnitin Team. Below you can find the most up-to-date information about training sessions, teachers' and students' resources for remote and distant learning/teaching, and a quiz to test your awareness of academic integ...

So here's a recipe: Your PowerPoints + Your Blackboard Course(s) + Camtasia (or any other screen capture software with audio capability) + a Tablet or TabletPC

Turnitin is back to deliver our latest teaching resources and product updates for making the teaching process both quicker and easier. Below you may also find the webinars and user summit conducted by our team in collaboration with educational techno...

Explore how to create colorful, stylized tabbed content on your Canvas page.      

With some slight modification to your Canvas instance Theme Editor, you can create some subtle (or fancy) drop shadow effects for your Canvas pictures.

There is plenty of content on what to do in Canvas -- how to do this and how to do that. But sometimes we Check or Uncheck an option or setting in Canvas, or turn something On or Off, not knowing what it is or what it does -- and then something doesn...

Canvas seems overwhelming for those that are just getting started but the best advice to to choose one feature at a time to add to your course and try out.  Check out my article on Conquering Canvas, one feature at a time.

With just a little code, tables that lack pizzazz can come to life.

Congratulations on making it to the end of what has likely been one of the most challenging years in education! As the CSM team begins to get questions from Canvas Admin about what they need to be doing to prepare for the end of the year, we decided ...

With the return to somewhat normalcy, I would like to be able to have the submission be open to both on line and physical.  I have had some students that print out the assignment and then want to physically turn in that assignment.  I can go to grade...

Designing and delivering assessments is an important part of student learning and teaching efficacy. In any environment, but especially in online learning, academic integrity is key to an accurate assessment of student knowledge. When developing your...

Learn how to extract the context id within a course and create the csv file needed for the Zoom LTI integration.

Hello everyone, It is a monthly update from Turnitin Team. Learn about upcoming webinars and training sessions, discover the most useful resources for remote and distant learning/teaching, and the latest company news.

Hello everyone, It is a monthly update from Turnitin Team. Learn about upcoming webinars and training sessions, discover the most useful resources and latest company news.

As educators, we want our students to have the best learning experience possible! What creates the optimal Canvas experience? I like to think of a Canvas course as an experience, similar to an experience you might have when visiting a hotel. Your exp...

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From Covid-19 to Canvas Admin: Building Courses, No Problem! Maintaining the Instance via API-Pushes and Backend Development, Problems Galore!

We at Turnitin support education and learning around the globe. To ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes we produce huge amounts of valuable information and resources for instructors and students. Webinar...

When we go into the moderate on the new quizzes it would be really nice if somehow there could be a sign that we have already adjusted a score.  Either a color change on the attempt or a little symbol somewhere.  It is very time consuming to go throu...

When I try to open zoom in one of my  canvas courses, an error message appears saying I am an unrecorgnized user. I have a valid zoom account. I have checked to see if I am signed in. I pulled zoom into my navigation area according to the directions ...

I am a special education co-teacher. I have 6 canvas courses I am a teacher in with the general education teacher and in 5 I can add observer teachers of record for special education students and the observer automatically is added to my people in th...

We’ve all experienced that feeling of being lost...like when we step onto a college campus for the first time, enter a new shopping mall, or exit an airplane into a new airport. We have that uneasy feeling of not knowing where to go or what to do. Ou...

New account level role created but cannot assign an individual to that role.This article is a request to help or directions to an article I could not locate.

In the beginning of becoming a Canvas Admin, I was very adamant about not forcing templates on my teachers.  I firmly believed that having teachers use templates in their courses would take away from the creativity and the individualism that comes fr...

Canvas DESPERATELY needs the board shortcut for "save" and "edit"!! This is especially needed in Assignments. Please deliver ASAP. Thank you!

I love inspirational Ted Talks and thought I’d share a few of my top educational ones with you as well as Canvas features that support some pretty great ideas… “Ideas worth spreading.”