Four Tips to Spring Clean your Canvas Courses At a loss for how to make changes to your course this late in the academic year/semester? Don’t you worry ‘bout a thing! The ID team is here to help you Spring Clean your Canvas course with four easy tips...

New Year, New Course Goals Are you struggling to set achievable goals for your courses?   Have you ever made a promise to yourself you didn't keep? I've spent so many years making new year's resolutions, only to break them within two weeks of setting...

  Design Tips for Pages in Canvas Are you looking for some design tips for your Canvas Pages?   Ever see a super inviting and well-thought-out page in Canvas and think, “OoooOoOo! I want to be able to do that!” but then wonder how? Or maybe you have ...

Shareability vs Data Collection  Considerations for Non-Classroom Courses Are you using Canvas for Conferences? Professional Development? As a Resource Hub?  Canvas courses are being leveraged more and more frequently for innovative, non-classroom us...

Today my heart is overflowing with gratitude for the incredible Instructional Design team at Instructure. A few years ago, I envisioned creating a course focused on accessibility, a topic that is near and dear to my heart. I wanted to share the knowl...

We love the AWESOME new feature “Canvas for Elementary.” In our desire to support any and all users who have enabled this interface, we’re providing a free resource you can find in Canvas Commons, Canvas for Elementary | Course Card/Banners. Simply i...

As educators, we want our students to have the best learning experience possible! What creates the optimal Canvas experience? I like to think of a Canvas course as an experience, similar to an experience you might have when visiting a hotel. Your exp...

We’ve all experienced that feeling of being lost...like when we step onto a college campus for the first time, enter a new shopping mall, or exit an airplane into a new airport. We have that uneasy feeling of not knowing where to go or what to do. Ou...

I love inspirational Ted Talks and thought I’d share a few of my top educational ones with you as well as Canvas features that support some pretty great ideas… “Ideas worth spreading.”

For many educators, 2020 has brought a shift in delivering content from face-to-face to using a Learning Manage System (LMS) such as Canvas. Some find the change exciting and exhilarating. Some find it scary and frustrating. Regardless of how you’re ...