Not to get all John Hughes on you, but Speed Grader is where it's at for grading. Electronically submitting comments is more effective for students and teachers. Reading comments from your instructor no longer feels like trying to interpret hieroglyp...

     Now, this is a story all about how, my life got flipped-turned upside down.         And I'd like to take a minute,              so just sit right there;   I'll tell you how I became the prince           of a town called Bay-lor.Flipped classroom...

This document will go through the use of iframes and use them in the context of a way to manage the lecture recordings generated by the University of Auckland system. An iframe is a in-line frame which embeds something within a document. A way to emb...

I can't take credit for coming up with this, but since the faculty member who did is not in the community as of yet, I will share their project here for them.One of our Biology Instructors has students take a bare bones (no pun intended) model of the...

The example I have is from our nursing department.  Prior to Canvas, students in the practicums had to turn in daily  logs detailing the goings on of the day.  The students would record these logs with a phone, digital camera or even software install...

As a student, I gave many presentations in class. I hated standing in the front of the class. I hated the unrevisable nature of a live presentation. Sure, I understand that live presentations have their place, but online presentations also have their...

Our various health care career programs have to grade students by observation at their clinical practicum sites. Previously this was accomplished with a clipboard using check-off sheets for each task observed - one sheet per student. Then the instruc...

Over the past few months, I've helped answer a handful of questions re: people wanting to set up a campus club or group in Canvas that lives outside of any course.  The club/group isn't tied to any one course.  For example, we have a Multicultural Cl...

As we all know, traditionally the marking of assignments has been on paper. At the beginning of the computer age when students wrote their assignments electronically, some teachers would take and mark electronic copies of their students work. This la...

Canvas is being introduced to my home institution next year and I am part of the transition team. During our training sessions with staff we aim to show them how to import the basics of a course syllabus into Canvas from a word document or pdf, of wh...

Communicating to members of advanced degree programs has historically been problematic - primarily because many such students work full time and are pursuing their post-baccalaureate degrees in off hours and potentially only online. Email can be unre...

To make recording of academic activities (verification of work by students in a course to qualify for their financial aid disbursement) easier on teachers and faster for both the financial aid office and students we started a process using available ...

Here are five:5. Complete the course set up.  In addition to the content this involves setting due dates, adding supplemental resources, and a review of standard communications such as welcome announcements and grading feedback mechanisms.  For examp...

1. Take care of ME! This means scheduling a vacation in late July/early August that involves my camera, my tent, and myself. This year it was Acadia National Park. Getting away and out into nature helps me re-center and come back refreshed and re-foc...

1. Prep. Before the end of the previous semester we're already prepping for the next one. [A meeting between our front desk, tech support, IDs, and admins.] There's another meeting the week before and one the week after classes start just to make sur...

Give teachers an apple, give them support and competence development in relation to new features in Canvas.Support teachers using Canvas against the institution's educational perspective.Creating courses and enrollment of students ready... It was thr...

Before I worked for a software company, I worked in the community and technical college system of Washington State.  Nine and a half of those years, I worked at Lower Columbia College.  My most rewarding years at LCC were spent in the eLearning offic...

1. Remind our Faculty what they need to do to start the semester.2.  Review the Production release notes  to ensure I know what changes have occurred and what questions to anticipate.3.  Prepare all our training materials for the upcoming workshops.4...

Support.  Make sure our support team has all the information it needs to help our Canvas users.  We will meet and make sure all of our Canvas documentation is up to date in our local knowledge base and that all links to Canvas are directing properly ...

The easiest way to set up percent based (or weighted) grading for your Canvas course is to use groups on the Assignments page. Assignment groups are used to show how the different assignments in your course are weighted differently. Yet, there are so...

SynopsisAdd functionality to your course Roster page by 1) sorting on any column, 2) generating a PDF of the roster, or 3) creating a Photo Roster.Although this is placed in the Higher Education group, it's only because Canvas requires blogs to be pu...

Cross posted from the Instructional Designer's GroupI love the start of a new term. It allows for a fresh start and for new ideas to be brought forward. As I have reflected over our process for this post, I really love the way we assist our faculty w...

If you've seen the movie City Slickers starring Billy Crystal, you may remember the character Curly as a hard-nosed, grumpy, downright-ornery, old cowboy.  In the movie, he shares with Jack (the character played by Crystal) the secret of life through...

Having supported faculty and students using 3 different Learning Management Systems (LMS) in Higher Education, I've seen the support and training needs of our faculty shift over time.When we started with Blackboard, there were so few adopters, we had...

Here are some things I do to get the semester off to a less chaotic start.I introduce myself to my students: https://www.softchalkcloud.com/lesson/serve/UCR7wvSXeK13Ix/html​.I strive to have direct communication with every student in the first twenty...

There have been some great blog posts so far about how to start the semester right and tips and tricks for running the semester. What I would like to do here is to outline a few things that I have found to be helpful when starting a new semester with...

Before I get to my beginning-of-semester MO, I'd like to acknowledge the blogs contributed thus far by  @kona ​,  @kmeeusen ​, and  @Chris_Hofer ​:(A few more than) Five things I do to start the semester right!5 Things I do to help students get off t...

In the spirit of former late night TV host Craig Kilborn (famous for "5 Questions"), here are some things that we have done prior to the start of the semester to ensure a healthy start to the school year...Offer face-to-face sessions for students who...

As a Canvas Administrator here are some things I do to ensure a healthy start to our Fall semester! Three months (or more) before the start of the semester we run a weekly report of which instructors are scheduled to teach online and hybrid courses f...

This is a great idea - teachers helping teachers!My Five, although I am sure there are more............Create an engaging, warm and informative welcome page (front page) in my classrooms,Provide content links as buttons on my home page for all useful...