The problem: a focus on facultyI run a successful twice-weekly faculty engagement program called Active Teaching Labs that gets instructors sharing how they use (want to use, fail to use, figure out how to be successful in using, etc.) technology in ...

How do you do Professional Development of Teaching? With >230 sessions reaching 3400+ educators, the Active Teaching Labs at UW-Madison facilitate teaching & learning development for the price of bagels & coffee. We've honed a one-hour highly-rated, ...

As designers and teachers, we are on a relentless quest to present the best quality information for our students in the most effective ways possible. We acknowledge we can always do better and our students deserve this effort!With that in mind, I off...

Higher ed hosts a bewildering number of professors who 1.) fail to provide examples of completed projects and assignments, 2.) actively avoid examples on the premise of promoting creativity, and 3.) presumably enjoy a comfort zone of non-clarity.Poss...

Enjoy this efficient Reading Response formula for encouraging higher-level Bloom’s Synthesis and Evaluation skills in higher ed.Major benefits: Students invest more effort to glean value from the readings and provide succinct evidence for grading.For...

Greetings, Canvas world!As I am sitting thinking about my proposal for InstructureCon2020, I thought, wouldn't it be a great idea if CanvasAdvocates had space where they can present to other users from a direct end-user perspective! These presentatio...

The rising popularity of online college courses creates new opportunities for completion and success. Unfortunately, more students who sign up for online courses also fail or wash out!  Students and instructors alike benefit from clarifying the skill...

One of the things that I have learned from taking final exams online is the use of the force completion method. What is Force Completion?At our institution, which uses Blackboard, our business teacher activates the Force Completion feature. What that...

The element that sets successful online courses apart from old-style correspondence courses is: presence. Well-taught, well-designed online courses can allow students to get to know each other and their instructors even better than in traditional lec...

Measuring contract cheating"If you can't measure it, you can't improve it"* is the inspiration behind this blog post. In this post, I discuss why a way to measure contract cheating is necessary and propose a measurement metric. The motivation behind ...

This CanvasTip actually came from one of my faculty and I thought it was definitely worth sharing.In a user's account Notification preferences, there's an option under Alerts called Content Link Error. I never paid much attention to it but if you hov...

New Quizzes will eventually replace the default Canvas quizzing tool, but in the meantime, there's still a lot of development needed to bring it to feature parity. Here's what led The Wharton School to start using New Quizzes sooner rather than later...

Hi Everyone,I'm usually not one to write too many blog posts, and I really debated the best place to put this.  As Ally is an accessibility tool it could have certainly gone in the accessibility group (and beginning my community college career in DSP...

We made some cool Canvas stickers! :smileycool: We plan to have a Canvas kick-off event for our students soon. If they show us they have the Canvas Student app installed on their mobile device, we're going to give them one of these cool Canvas sticke...

Attached Excel workbook is able to download data from Canvas (exclusively using Get API calls) to create an overview of all assignments in all courses you specify using Course SIS IDs. The worksheet contains the following columns to be filled with d...

Are you interested in university governance and academic leadership? join our LEAD-Community    The LEAD2 project is a Capacity Building in Higher Education project supported by the Erasmus+ programme. The overall objective of the LEAD2 project is to...

Hello! My name is Alan Kinsey, and I am the Instructional Design Specialist at Holmes Community College. We are doing research into how other community colleges and eLearning departments function and exist in their contexts. We have created a short s...

     Registration is now open for the Mainstreaming Virtual World Learning Colloquium @ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mainstreaming-virtual-world-learning-colloquium-registration-52512254567.  The Colloquium is a free event -- on December 1, 2018 (9:0...

The short answer is no, Cengage Unlimited doesn’t change Canvas courses you’ve already built. However, you may be asked by instructors who have student’s with subscriptions to add a new link to Cengage Unlimited to their course. To do that check out ...

So I just headed over to the "Answers" area. This came after spending several minutes on the home page typing a plethora of variations into the search engine, with no results to answer my predicament.I began asking my question to you luminaries, far ...

2020! Can you believe it is now 2020?  As such, I have updated the topic below. As we move into our final stages of implementing Canvas in a large University, every day we are faced with more and more challenges when it comes to managing large course...

There are many ways to read RSS (Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication as defined on RSS - Wikipedia) feeds.  You can do so via browser plugin-in, RSS readers, and other news aggregators.  If you want to keep up-to-date on the status of Canv...

When I first began the task of Faculty Training, I was still at my alma mater - standing before those who had taught me, along with many who didn't know me, only that I had a BA that wouldn't hold a candle to their multiple PhD's. That was daunting a...

I am asking for candid discussion here, based on cost of courses. Besides the old "how much should we charge for online courses?" debate, have any of you dealt with your institution offering for-credit, and not-for credit courses? How was the pricing...

In today’s world, the dynamics of a classroom have changed since we were once pupils. As educators, we have to deal not only with classroom management, developing curriculum, and school functions, but we are competing with cell phones, iPods, and Nin...

If you've ever wanted to use peer reviews to allow group members to provide feedback to each other, you know tedious this is to accomplish with the web interface. This userscript allows you to automatically assign intra-group peer reviews.

We have a fantastic American Sign Language (ASL) department at our institution as well as other programs that require media uploads for assignments thus creating a need for a video solution that meets our needs and fits our school budget. Regarding o...

It has taken some time to encourage students and faculty to use mobile apps when accessing our Canvas instance, but we have made a lot of progress. This push came after we encouraged users to use the Calendar feature in their mobile devices. Our curr...

Abstract: The hardest part about contract cheating is quantifying the problem. We can't do much about the former, but we're trying to change the latter. That is, we are trying to quantify contract cheating in hopes of learning more about assessment d...

Reading responses to the https://community.canvaslms.com/polls/1421-which-do-you-prefer-online-vs-on-campus?sr=search&searchId=69a4fb40-a03a-4831-8cb9-d71c3361751b&searchIndex=0" modifiedtitle="true" title="Which do you prefer: online vs on-campus? p...