Hidden Gems: K-12 Free For Teacher

[Kelvin_Dean]

One of the things I am wondering: Is there a K-12 edition of Free For Teachers? There is! Go online to https://k12.canvaslms.com and try it out!

Course Feature Options Comparison

Enforced feature options are marked with Yes/No. Options with toggles are marked with Available. Any items not listed in the feature options are listed as N/A.

	Canvas FFT K-12	Canvas FFT Higher Education
ePub Exporting	Available	N/A
Learning Mastery Gradebook	Available	Available
Student Learning Mastery Gradebook	Available	Available
Allow Outcome Extra Credit	N/A	N/A
Anonymous Instructor Annotations	Available	Available
New Gradebook	N/A	No
Duplicating Calendar Events	Yes	Yes
Gradebook - List Students By Sortable Name	Available	Available
Dashboard Images For Courses	Yes	Yes
Mastery Paths	Yes	Yes
Common Cartridge HTML File to Page Conversion beta	N/A	Yes
New Quizzes	N/A	N/A
New Course & User Analytics	Yes	Available
Quiz Log Auditing	Yes	Yes
Anonymous Grading	N/A	Available
Moderating Grading	N/A	Available

Course Quota

The quota is still the same at 250 MB.

Missing Features

Gauge

Gauge does not work in FFT K-12, even though it is designed for K-12 institutions. This is because SIS IDs do not work in Free For Teachers.

Canvas Studio

As with the Canvas FFT HE, Canvas Studio is not available on Canvas FFT K-12.

How should the sign in page look like in the future?

In the future, since we discovered the K-12 Canvas FFT, here's what would look like before the above screen appears:

Log in as which FFT user?

• K-12 user
• Higher education user 

Selecting K-12 will redirect users to http://k12.canvaslms.com, while selecting Higher education will redirect users to https://canvas.instructure.com.

The above scenario (Log in as which FFT user) is just a mock, but I want to be the one to show you what the login page will look like for FFT users in the future.

[Bobby2]

Oh my goodness  @Kelvin_Dean  Thank You I had no idea they were different. That's brilliant.

Thanks for the share. 

[scottdennis]

Kelvin,

First off I must commend you on your comprehensive knowledge of Canvas.  Thank you for being a reliably helpful person here in the community - we couldn't do it without people like you.

With regards to http://k12.canvaslms.com/  my advice would be to not use that instance.  As you point out it is nearly identical to the main Free for Teacher instance of Canvas, which is meant to be for everyone, K12 included.  At one point it was created so that we could complete a project that was then cancelled or put on hold indefinitely.  As of today  http://k12.canvaslms.com/  only contains a handful of courses (less than 20) and most of them are demo courses created by sales people.  This instance of Canvas is not supported the way Free for Teacher is and it could be taken down at any time without warning.  

Thanks again for participating in the Community and for your interest in all things Canvas!