My institution is reviewing the way in which we manage enrolment into our VLE, Canvas.  We cannot drive this from SITS as this does not track students involved in teaching, but rather assessment.  Instead on a course by course basis we enrol groups o...

Canvas Credentials users who will be attending the UPCEA / AACRAO Convergence: Credential Innovation in Higher Education event in DC this November: Let me know if you'd like to meet up to talk shop over lunch or during a networking break!

Hello! If this is not the appropriate group to ask this question, please direct me otherwise! I am assisting with the implementation of Canvas into my employer's institution, which is a healthcare organization. I am curious how others in similar sett...

At our institution we have a variety of "Peer Mentor" (PM)-type roles: students who are placed in undergraduate classes as advisors/mentors/tutors to the enrolled students. The PM is a fellow matriculated undergrad, but not enrolled in the course (in...

Hey folks, this is tangentially related to Canvas, hope that's ok.  I work at a small medical college with about 50 faculty and 600 students.  I am interested in the ratios at other colleges/universities (of any size) between Instructional Designers ...

My team is working towards a retention policy for Canvas courses. We just switched to Canvas a few years ago, and as such haven't had to think about old courses much before. My questions is: what is the retention policy at your campus? How long do yo...

Personally, I have been using Canvas since 2018 in the K-12 world. I am now in Higher Ed (Technical College) and I am responsible for assisting/training our faculty on Canvas.  My big hurdle now is how to convince others to make the leap.  The site u...

There have been several posts asking questions about test logs and cheating. The standard Canvas support answer seems to be that the analytics are not intended to be used to detect cheating. My question is why not!!!! As an example I had a student en...

Greetings, Fellow HIED LMS admins, do you just delete unused and/or empty Canvas shells at some point in the semester? We currently have hundreds every semester. We load in Canvas courses very early, often months before the start date, which means th...

Is it possible to make templates available for instructors to self apply to their courses via Course Copy or something like that? We currently share templates via Commons, but this is a pain because we need to replace the package there every time the...

hello  Trying to see if there's a way for Groups can view each others' posts in a Discussion. I understand this goes against some of the setting of Groups, but is there a way? Many thanks,   J

We are a group of Learning Designers and EdTech colleagues who have been building our own platform called Stackle over the last 2 years. We've evolved into a set of Canvas integrated features focusing on simple and easy to use Learner Portfolios, Lea...

How Aims Community College Provides Secure and Accessible AssessmentsMay 11, 2023 2:00 PMBy utilizing Respondus and ReadSpeaker, Aims Community College has been able to provide their learners a way to have their assessments provided in a secure, acce...

Hello, has anyone used Canvas for things other than academics and learning? Our Student Affairs and Engagement department are wanting to replace some of the processes/tools they have now. For example, our students use the Ready Education app to track...

Hello,You can use Commons for yourself and for groups. I am trying to share with our faculty the pros and cons of using Commons vs. other methods of sharing content. Why would they use Commons for themselves and not simply Copy to from one course to ...

We are working on a pilot project to use eBooks/eTextbooks and possible use of publisher content for select courses at WCU during the Spring 2023 semester.  If anyone is using the LTI to integrate the use of these eBooks and publisher content through...

So, Turnitin has purchased a competitor to remove it from the field once again.  Unicheck will be discontinued.   Are there any other Unicheck users out there?  What are your plans moving forward?  Are there new plagiarism checkers out there?   Is an...

We are considering standardizing some of the job titles for members of our Learning Systems team. Right now, we have a Project Managers, Application Programmer Analysts, and Academic Consultants. Yet, all three positions are really the systems admini...

I need the ability to "weigh all assignments in a group the same" so that assignments with different point values all have the same weight.I cannot design all my assignments to have the same point value. This would mean they all use the same or simil...

Have you checked out docReader, ReadSpeaker 's newest offering for our certified Canvas integration? Everyone has PDFs and EPUBs they need read, so how are you making them accessible? Check out thisshort video showing docReader in action!

Hello everyone,To highlight effective strategies for inclusive learning, we’re organizing a free webinar together with the Foundation for California Community Colleges, “Creating Equitable and Inclusive Learning Environments”, on Wednesday, December ...

Hi,We would like to know of schools that have implemented Ellucian ILP 5 SaaS and how their grade passback has been working.   We have a current Ellucian support case being worked on for grading in courses with pass/fail students since they are faili...

Hello everyone,I would like to invite you to our free webinar, “Growing Student Success Through Learner-Centered Course Design”, on Wednesday, November 9th at 11 AM ET.Together with Marnie Roestel, Associate Director of Learning System Support at Cen...

Did you Know? ReadSpeaker's docReader for Canvas helps support executive function and self-regulation skills. This skill development is valuable in both K12 and HE.Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us ...

I am one of the Canvas admins at my school. We have been using Zoom for our hybrid courses where some students are in the classroom and others online. However, since we already have a Microsoft 365 education license we are strongly considering using ...

Read your Canvas documents while providing study, focus and accommodation tools! Watch the video to see it in action!