In the endless quest to declutter my Canvas course sites and eliminate unnecessary "call-outs" to separate pages I've been playing with HTML, specifically Anchor Tags.For the unaware, Anchor Tags are essentially hyperlinks that allow you to jump from...

Last week was the 19th Canvas Camp hosted at the University of Oklahoma. Looking back on its evolution from May 2016 to today, the dozens of courses developed by participating instructors, and the feedback I've received, Canvas Camp is an ongoing suc...

In response to a question posted in a comments section elsewhere, QC99.tsilvius​ crafted this elegant response. Since this question comes up so frequently, I'm reproducing Todd's advice to preserve it for posterity. Plan A. Creating an Announcement t...

Below is a quick and easy way to duplicate quiz questions. Once copied these questions can be tweaked/adjusted as needed!Create the question you want to duplicate in your course Question Bank - How do I create a question bank in my course?Create your...

https://elearningindustry.com/press-releases/webinar-series-teaches-lms-admins-overcome-top-frustrations Not sure about anyone else, but here were my top frustrations:1. Licensing Blackboard.2. Using Blackboard.3. Supporting Blackboard.4. Defending B...

Sometimes it's hard to find resources in the Canvas Community and often awesome things are overlooked due to the sheer volume of information. To make it easier for people, the following is a comprehensive list of Canvancements (Canvas Enhancements) @...

Update March 15, 2020.   Version 2d is now available. The only changes were to remove the mute column (Canvas deprecated that functionality in January 2020) and add a points column to change the points on an assignment (you cannot change point values...

Top 10 Education Technologies that Will Be Dead and Gone in the Next Decade -- Campus Technology

Update - This document has now largely been superseded by Canvas' cool ability to now duplicate assignments and duplicate pages.  Both work exactly as advertised and have been tremendous additions to Canvas.  But if you want to create assignments wit...

Every Canvas Admin needs one of these....Funny Panda Puppy Halloween Costume - YouTube

There’s a new amazing feature that can make your work with our system easier. Could you ever imagine that only one button can bring you more comfort while creating assignments?  We are excited to tell you about the new functionality update. We have a...

December 8, 2018 - No Longer NeededCanvas has released their own solution for sorting the dashboard course cards. You should remove this script and use their solution. Things should continue to work until you do, but the effort is being duplicated. A...

QuizWiz is a user script developed by  @James   and  @avi_naiman  that adds speed enhancements to quizzes, assignments, and discussions within SpeedGrader. It also provides alternative scoring methods for certain types of quiz questions. It runs in S...

We just had our opening day activities today and the focus was on promoting the student experience. We had a panel discussion with current and past Lake Land College students and they share their experiences taking classes at Lake Land College. Durin...

If you haven't already seen the active discussion posted here ( New FERPA requirements for cross-listed courses! ), LeRoy Rooker, the director of the United States Department of Education's Family Policy Compliance Office, recently answered a questio...

InstructureCon 2016 Highlight Reel - YouTube (Jive strips out the embed tags.)

I generally like the idea of the Setup Checklist that is part of every unpublished Canvas course site, especially the sense of humor that Instructure uses throughout the page. While some are, admittedly, rather glaringly obvious--like having to add a...

The newly-introduced feature of Final Grade Exclusion in the August 6, 2016 Release Notes prompted me to create a table that illustrates what faculty and students will see not only with the new feature, but with the existing features of creating vari...

My institution recently renamed our “Blended” courses to “Hybrid” in the hope of easing perceived student confusion. Following some brief research, I’ve come to the conclusion that students aren’t the only ones confused by the terms used to describe ...

Desire2Learn vs Moodle vs Canvas | TrustRadius

Not sure if this is a good place to post, but found this interesting. Meet the Instructure Chicago Team - YouTube

This document is intended to assist those who want to know exactly how many classes all of your students have missed at the end of a term…something Roll Call will not do for you on its own.  This is especially problematic for instructors who (for exa...

This document explains what Multiple Answers questions are, how partial credit is computed for these questions, why Canvas computes partial credit the way it does, and compares the multiple answers offerings of other Learning Management Systems.What ...

This blog could also be a very interesting discussion for another time. What I would like to briefly cover is not what people's different backgrounds are, but more what they could be, and how it doesn't really matter. Canvas has now been taught to ac...

Back in October I participated in the Paper Pumpkin challenge, which encouraged conversations around online marking: Paper Pumpkin - Moving marking online, the uphill battle. Five months on I thought it would be time for an update. Since then we have...

I am a part of the team to train people in Canvas at my institution. I have also touched on some of the issues I mention below in these blogs You can lead a horse to water...  Seeing the digital world unfold Introducing Canvas to a new University - 5...

When assignments, quizzes, or discussions have multiple due dates, Canvas gives a summary table of the dates and the number of students, but not the names of the students. This user script replaces the number of students with the names of the student...

With the February 20, 2016, Release, Canvas replaced the number of assignments needing graded with a 9+ indicator when there were more than 9 that needed grading. No one thought much of it before it happened, probably because their examples all used ...

May 27, 2020, update (version 15):Another week, another update. This time I installed a new linter to check for crud and subtle issues with the code. It turned up a lot of little things and at least one place where I was using an array when I thought...

This guide will go through the steps to embed and display a pdf document in the rich content editor.1. Add your pdf by selecting "files" under "insert content into the page" on the top right of the page. If you are uploading a new file, click on "Cho...