With the transition of the U.S. Presidential Administration, recent federal policy changes may have a direct or indirect impact on your institution and the learners you serve. While these conversations can be challenging, they are crucial for educati...

With the transition of the U.S. Presidential Administration, recent federal policy changes may have a direct or indirect impact on your institution and the learners you serve. While these conversations can be challenging, they are crucial for educati...

With the transition of the U.S. Presidential Administration, recent federal policy changes may have a direct or indirect impact on your institution and the learners you serve. While these conversations can be challenging, they are crucial for educati...

Hi,When I started using Canvas 8 years ago, it worked very well. Now, I find it sometimes slow due to my Web browsers being bogged down (I generally have many tabs open at once). This leads to not only slow page loading but also within pages such tha...

  Thank you for attending a Q1 Instructure New and Next webinar. This post includes linked resources for the recent product releases covered in our Q1 2025 Instructure New & Next webinars, organized by theme. These resources have been created to hel...

Discover the latest updates to Canvas Catalog designed to elevate your higher education experience! This video highlights the redesigned Catalog Info Page and powerful Salesforce integration, providing streamlined course promotion and improved d...

The summer 2024 Canvas LMS updates resulted in a locked default of "Collapse Threads" on all discussion board forums. [Users can over-ride this setting but the "Expand Threads" button has to be clicked on every time a forum is opened.] The new "Colla...

This higher education-focused one-page overview provides a summary of our seamless integration of Khanmigo Teacher Tools directly within Canvas. This feature is available to all US-based Canvas customers to simplify AI for educators and generate hig...

This post includes linked resources for the recent product releases covered in our September 2024 Instructure New and Next webinars, organized by theme. We’ll continue to update this post as more resources become available. After the Instructure New...

CanvasConnect, what was previously named in some areas as "CanvasCon", is a regional one day mini conference. These conferences are especially great if you were not able to attend InstructureCon as it gives you a chance to experience a little of that...

Tl;dr – We’re thrilled to share that the Higher Ed Canvas Users Group is evolving to support your needs and interests better. Starting September 16, 2024, you’ll notice the group will simply be called Higher Ed Users Group, and its focus will broade...

Recently we found at my institution another of those hidden permissions. This one is not documented, which is one of the main issues. We have an elevated support role (for our Tier 1Tech  Support) that has most of the teacher permissions and some adm...

Hello everyone, and happy summer! I was recently talking with some colleagues about some non-standard uses of Canvas at their universities, from departmental testing to first-year readiness programs. I'm curious: what's the most unconventional way yo...

Hi Canvas Users, I am a Success Advisor at a University using Canvas for the first time. Are there any tips you think are particularly helpful you can share? Any favorite actions or shortcuts that make your life easier you think we should all know an...

Hi! So our college started a new program a few years ago so we're still trying to get a footing on what we're doing, specifically with tracking our students' work in the program. We serve about 80 students in the program. At the end of each quarter, ...

We are preparing to adopt a syllabus management tool and wanted to know if anyone else is willing to share what tools/processes they are using to manage syllabi across their college/university and/or feedback about your experience with the tools/proc...

Hi, Canvas users! At my institution, the writing center director has set up a Canvas page for use by writing tutors.  It serves mostly as a communication hub for the writing center, with active discussions, a calendar, and some resources for sharing ...

Hi everyone,We are currently using the standard Canvas RCE code highlighting for program code.  Our ed designers and academicians want more syntax highlighting than is currently available.So we are considering the use of prism.js as an add-on to our ...

Hi everyone,   We have recently moved to Canvas after using printed workbooks and PowerPoint presentations for many years.  The feedback from students is that they love Canvas but miss the printed workbooks, because they like to add notes to the info...

My institution is reviewing the way in which we manage enrolment into our VLE, Canvas.  We cannot drive this from SITS as this does not track students involved in teaching, but rather assessment.  Instead on a course by course basis we enrol groups o...

Canvas Credentials users who will be attending the UPCEA / AACRAO Convergence: Credential Innovation in Higher Education event in DC this November: Let me know if you'd like to meet up to talk shop over lunch or during a networking break!

Hello! If this is not the appropriate group to ask this question, please direct me otherwise! I am assisting with the implementation of Canvas into my employer's institution, which is a healthcare organization. I am curious how others in similar sett...

At our institution we have a variety of "Peer Mentor" (PM)-type roles: students who are placed in undergraduate classes as advisors/mentors/tutors to the enrolled students. The PM is a fellow matriculated undergrad, but not enrolled in the course (in...

With a gradebook export, instructors are able to get a list of students in a course.  However, I have seen requests from instructors and admins to be able to download the People list as it includes other helpful information like last activity date/ti...

Instructors often want to analyze student performance on assignments.  Using the gradebook, instructors can analyze overall assignment grades.  When using outcomes, instructors and admins have access to reports to analyze those criteria items. Howeve...

Hey folks, this is tangentially related to Canvas, hope that's ok.  I work at a small medical college with about 50 faculty and 600 students.  I am interested in the ratios at other colleges/universities (of any size) between Instructional Designers ...

My team is working towards a retention policy for Canvas courses. We just switched to Canvas a few years ago, and as such haven't had to think about old courses much before. My questions is: what is the retention policy at your campus? How long do yo...