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...

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 ...