Many instructors use Canvas to provide digital copies of their slides, and for students they are a key resource in courses.  It is important every student be able to use those digital files including the visually impaired.  But presentations are more...

We are continually amazed at what the participants in the Canvas Certified Educator program have done to transform teaching and learning with Canvas. Every day, the facilitators and program managers of the Canvas Certified Educator program learn some...

Shareability vs Data Collection  Considerations for Non-Classroom Courses Are you using Canvas for Conferences? Professional Development? As a Resource Hub?  Canvas courses are being leveraged more and more frequently for innovative, non-classroom us...

The University of Maryland, College Park wanted to share their self-paced tutorial with the Canvas Community.

Accessibility is just the work we do.  Here at the University of Minnesota, College of Biological Sciences we are working hard to improve the accessibility of our digital content.  For the next few months we are focusing on closed captioning.  This c...

When the time comes that you are finally letting students submit assignments online rather than turning in papers in the classroom, you may be ready to explore the many other options Assignments have!This article provides an overview the options avai...

These are some of the strategies I use to help maximize time for meaningful student contact. (first mentioned in Saving time teaching online‌ )The goal is to spend your time and creative presence on teaching.  The more you can front-load your courses...

ClicK-12 (free) Webinar series powered by FIU OnlineSimple Ways to Digitize Your ClassroomArticle by Monica SmithThe live virtual workshops are part of the FIU Online Community Learning portfolio, which stems out of FIU’s belief that lifelong learnin...

In creating a course called Intro to Pharmacy Technician, I was privileged to work with the Department Chair who was also the subject matter expert (SME), and the chief instructor. My SME was doubtful this PHAR course could ever be taught online. Fur...

Caution My comments may sound critical of teachers, so I want to clarify that I am a higher ed instructor and this the community I strive to serve. I am also an instructional designer, user testing professional, and an unusually experienced student s...

      Before the pandemic took over, I was fortunate to speak at a conference where I discussed providing feedback to students through technology. In sum, I spoke about how technology can be a win/win for both teacher and student. Students require fe...

El Centro de Desarrollo Docente de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile ha generado una serie de videotutoriales para  para orientar el uso de Canvas a los estudiantes de nuestra universidad. Hemos distribuido las herramientas en diversos módu...

El Centro de Desarrollo Docente de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile ha generado una serie de videotutoriales para el uso técnico y pedagógico de las principales herramientas de Canvas. Hemos distribuido las herramientas en diversos módulos...

This write up is based on a webinar I provided to my institution today.  I am sharing it with the Canvas Community for anyone who would find it useful.  My target audience is traditional faculty who are transitioning from brick classrooms to online c...

In response to disease epidemics (Covid-19 Coronavirus) many schools are transitioning to online courses, ready or not.  Ideally, online courses are thoughtfully produced using multimedia, Universal Design (UDL), backward design, and flipped-classroo...

When I first began teaching online, I considered using a social media hashtag for class activities and related content. To make it simple and a cohesive conversation, I thought to use the course prefix and number, ie #THE4400. When discussing with a ...

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...