Here's a playlist of 4 videos (totaling a little over an hour) that walk folks through the essential features of using Canvas to develop courses: Canvas Essentials - YouTube.  These videos are used in support of our Canvas Essentials course for facul...

Hi Community!I have been teaching in a higher education graduate school for more than fourteen years and until my fall 2017 semester, I had been calculating my students' grades based on an 80% paper and a 20% multiple choice exam. This was tradition....

At Northwestern University, instructors in the music school are using Canvas in an inventive way to critique "voice juries".  They used to go through reams of paper and frantic handwriting sessions to provide feedback to students, but have streamline...

The 2017 OpenSimulator Community Conference will be held in the OpenSimulator Community Conference Grid (or OSCC Grid) virtual world AND streamed live (@ https://gaming.youtube.com/c/AvaconOrg/live) on December 9th and 10th. In turn, even if you have...

Student retention is a concern in probably every college and university in America. We wouldn’t be in education if we didn’t feel it is a transformative experience and benefits not only the individual, but their family, community, and society as a wh...

This document is meant to provide an easier way for faculty to see their Roll Call Attendance results with a minimal amount of effort. It's in many ways a supplement to my longer document in the Community, Using the Roll Call Report: A Guide for Peop...

Does a student need to enable particular sharing settings to allow the instructor to view the Google Docs in a group collaboration?When the instructor goes to groups < selects the group < selects view group home page< collaboration < the blue colored...

This past week this article, Standardization in Online Education, came by my social media feed. It was particularly interesting to me because we are knee deep in discussing the very issues that are discussed in this article. I have very mixed feeling...

How would you describe your current adjunct faculty culture?  Is it disjointed, disconnected, disenfranchised, or stagnant?  Would you like your culture to be one of connection, development, community, and support?  If so, you’ve come to the right pl...

Attached Excel workbook is able to download data from Canvas (exclusively using Get API calls) to create an overview of all group sets, its groups and its members in a course. Group sets and groups are displayed (vertically) in column A and B (see S...

Resources for InstructureCon 2017‌ presentation - No Need to Blame Canvas - coming soon!

I have to admit - I am a bit of an Apple junkie/fanboy. In a past life, I was lead on mobile initiatives for a private university of 9,000 students, so I had test devices where I would install beta builds as they became available after Apple's annual...

Today was the third part in a 4-part webinar series discussing what's hot in ed tech these days.When High Tech becomes Hot Tech: Educational Technology Showcase - Part 4  In the session, we discussed many visual and interactive options for displaying...

I have been working in Higher Ed for about 13 years or so (most of it in Instructional Technology of some sort). I have been fortunate enough to go to many, many conferences over the years. I have spoken at conferences, worked with product management...

Wish you could bypass requirements/prerequisites for a single student and give the student a zero or let the student go back later to complete the assignment? Using this hack, originally suggested by  @tom_gibbons  you now can!ProblemIf an Instructor...

Today was the third part in a 4-part webinar series discussing what's hot in ed tech these days.When High Tech becomes Hot Tech: Educational Technology Showcase - Part 3  In the session, we discussed many visual and interactive options for displaying...

If you follow the Release Notes‌ then you probably noticed that Canvas is trying out something new called "Student Performance Texts." These texts are to help students better manage their course work and applies to students who have provided their ph...

Students often have difficulty understanding weighted (percentage based) gradebooks and how their grades are calculated. Luckily Canvas has "What-if" grades to help students better understand how their grades on different assignments impact their gra...

Writing discussion questions for certain subjects can sometimes be a little tricky. Why you might ask? Because in my experience some subjects lend themselves to discussion and multiple shades of gray (so no right or wrong answer). An example of this ...

Disclaimer: I am, by no means, an expert in this, and I'd consider myself a "newbie".  This has been a fun and interesting hobby for me so far, and I continue to learn more and more about it.About a month ago, I saw a posting on Facebook from a frien...

I could not agree more...."It is unfair (if common) to blame the longstanding LMS providers for the current limitations of their systems, as they were solving what was then the transactional task asked of them by universities: replicate the transacti...

I just want to send out huge thanks to the entire Canvas Community! You and your contributions to this community have been instrumental in the success of one of UW-Madison's Faculty Development programs, the Active Teaching Lab.The entire Spring 2017...

Student Centered Learning (SCL) is a teaching method that can be generally defined as a change in the focus of activity (or instruction) from the Instructor to the student. All types of courses from traditional to hybrid to online can utilize SCL.Key...

I've created a Mastery Paths module that includes only differentiated paths. It's working, but the flow is stunted by the lack of buttons once students complete the associated assignment or content page. My current workaround is to include explicit i...

Today was the second part in a 4-part webinar series discussing what's hot in ed tech these days.When High Tech becomes Hot Tech: Educational Technology Showcase - Part 2 I wanted to write a quick follow up to that.  In the session, we discussed many...

Situation: You have a class where you'd like to take attendance twice a day and use the Canvas Roll Call Attendance tool.Problem: Unfortunately Attendance in Canvas doesn't directly allow you to take attendance twice a day.Solution: Use the three att...

A little over two years ago I got a chance to participate in Canvas' first Project Khaki! The purpose was to bring together some of the most active Canvas users (of all types and from all areas) and talk about how to make Canvas even better! It was a...

Our little canvasbaby‌ thought she'd help Daddy pack for projectkhaki‌! It's  @James first time leaving the kids (and me!), but Project Khaki is definitely a worthy cause and I think he has a lot to contribute to the conversation! Two years ago I was...

Well, I don't live near a beach...but those trees sure are swaying!  Queue the segue...  For almost two years, I've been sending out newsletters to our faculty via e-mail.  I've utilized both Outlook (creating tables to hold content completely from s...

I've written a user script that provides better navigation when working with group discussions. This document and script are primarily intended for instructors, TAs, or other people who can see multiple groups for group discussions. I haven't tested ...