In this user group we had Peter Riley, Principal at Cessnock High School, share the success his school has had implementing a common structure and approach to their digital pedagogy at the school. The group shared lots of great quick wins and we discussed and voted on topics for upcoming user groups. Our next user group will be live in Melbourne on the 26th of August - the day before CanvasCon Melbourne!

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Cessnock High School teaching best practice - ABC News

Some of the quick wins shared:

• Using Canvas for Elementary across the school (not just in primary/Junior school)
  • Coincidentally, our product team recently released a blog post about Canvas for Elementary that is worth reading!
• HTML code that puts a border around anything you do using the RCE
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    <div style="width: 95%; margin: 10px 20px 30px 10px; background-color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; border: 2px; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000; border-radius: 10px;"> ADD YOUR STUFF then </div>

• Searching Comment Banks
• Message Students Who...
• Canvas Queen YouTube Videos
• Get rid of the Colour Overlay in Dashboard courses and put in some animated gifs as images
• Cidilabs AI Assessment feature
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• 'Better Canvas' Better Canvas Chrome Addon

And lastly, if you'd like to add any suggestions for topics of discussion at a future user group or have a great story to share in our spotlight section, feel free to fill in the form with the details:

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