Your mission: Design quality authentic assessments incorporating virtual field trips in Canvas. We'll share our experiences with using simulated visits and Canvas features, including quizzes, assignments, and rubrics. You'll learn to develop assessme...

Many of our faculty were eager to move to Canvas and explore its capabilities. But enticing reluctant faculty required us to be creative with training and support. Learn how we won over faculty who loved our old system, reassured faculty who hated it...

In recent years, retention has become less of a buzzword and more of a real issue facing nearly all institutions of higher education. And while there are many elements to a successful retention plan, advising case management has been shown as instrum...

A master of disguise, the meek-looking Module is actually a powerhouse of course organization, resource management, student guidance, and personalized learning. Join a veteran K–12 force of tech coaches as they outline their successful mission of mak...

Your LMS should do more than contain course content, right? Good thing Canvas does! Discover how Springfield Public Schools, a district of 25,000 students and 2,500 teachers, uses Canvas to manage curricula, organize professional learning opportuniti...

Learn how the intel analysts at CU Denver have used Canvas-hosted data, SIS data, and Tableau to build tools to help instructors and administrators understand student behavior and improve course design. We'll discuss the types of devices students use...

Sure, Canvas courses are great as online classrooms for students, but they can have many other uses. Come explore the various ways CCSD is using Canvas courses for conferencing, trainings, tracking meetings, extending the reach of on-boarding, and mu...

Never say never again: With Canvas Outcomes, tracking student learning is easy. This session shows how—and why—to use built-in Canvas features to quickly and effectively track student progress on the learning that's most valuable to you. We’ll showca...

Change is hard. Take part in a role play as we discuss learning management system transitions on three campuses. How do learning technology staff simultaneously drive change and help faculty cope? Join us to learn how to face down Dr. No and alleviat...

Boost your productivity with the new Canvas Teacher mobile app. Come learn about the new grading, messaging and content editing capabilities within the palm of your hand.

Lethbridge College partnered with our city police service to design a training program for recruits. This competency-based program required students to demonstrate competencies through a series of live scenarios. In this session, we'll explain how we...

In 2011, Utah State University became one of the earliest Canvas adopters. We didn't know it then, but our migration would help catalyze significant organizational growth opportunities in areas of faculty development, data analytics, program developm...

If the coolest spies have the coolest tools, then the coolest instructors should, too. In this session, you’ll be the first to see the latest gadgets that will help make your missions as efficient and effective as humanly possible.

The iPilot is an innovative project embedding the use of mobile devices in teaching across seven undergraduate programs at the university. This presentation will explore how Canvas supports the project and will share early findings on the impact on s...

Your next mission is to collaborate with faculty to eliminate expensive textbooks by converting to Open Education Resources (OER) and sharing the work in Canvas Commons. We’ll discuss sustainability, accessibility, and best practices for mission succ...

Lack of familiarity, adequate training, and ongoing help can lead to a poor Canvas user experience. This session offers tips, tricks, and recommendations on how to anticipate, identify, and mitigate potential issues so that students and faculty can e...

Scale content, make realtime edits to multiple courses at the same time, create consistent student experience across courses, and make it super easy for teachers to collaborate and iterate their common shared content. Did we mention it is magical?

You are an IT administrator and your mission, if you choose to accept, is to decipher your agency’s many complex SIS and LMS integration issues. In this briefing, you will be given the intel necessary (SIS Integration options, tips and tricks, and ot...

How do you assist 17,000 faculty and staff at 24 different campuses transition to Canvas after 15 plus years of using a homegrown, customized LMS? This presentation will dive into strategies, challenges, and successes of an instructional support team...

Ohio State, Iowa, and Wisconsin-Madison recently moved from self-hosted instances of D2L to Canvas. This presentation will cover how we approached migration, navigated the change from on-prem to the cloud, handled course data retention, and engaged a...

Learn how you can get super secret spy access to the New Gradebook, join our early access Focus Group in the community and hear about what’s coming next!

Mission: Launch Canvas in your elementary school classrooms. Empower your elementary school students to not only learn about organization, but to organize their work and master their workflow using Canvas. Inspire your elementary school students to t...

Canvas has its own Q Branch for R&D and we've been working on some secret weapons. Come hear about our new inventions like Student Performance Texts, peek into the future of Canvas Artificial Intelligence, and get a first look at data that shows how ...

Ever been told that "Canvas doesn't do that?" #canvancements are community-inspired, ready-to-use, free tools that allow the non-programmer to do the seemingly impossible: adjust all assignment dates on one page, import rubrics from Excel, speed up S...

Canvas and Employees love Bridge. See how Bridge is helping institutions like yours build modern and engaging courses to meet every Training, Professional Development, and Compliance need.

The Canvas mobile apps offer convenience for students, teachers, and parents, but how can we leverage these tools to create the most personalized experience? This session will consider the Canvas Student, Teacher, and Parent apps, explore real-world ...

California Community Colleges’ 95% adoption rate of Canvas is a unique opportunity for faculty and student support. The CCC-OEI ensures student completion by increasing access/success in online courses locally and across the system. Hear about cross-...

Great charts make information "jump out" from a sea of data. This talk is a high-level overview of the science behind why that happens. We’ll focus on how we applied it to our new analytics dashboard, and how you can do the same to understand and com...

Let’s talk about accessibility within our Canvas courses, focusing on the knowledge you'll need to make your course both technically accessible and usable to a broad range of students. We’ll cover how to use online tools within Canvas to create acces...

With a mobile-first mindset, we embarked on integrating the Canvas experience with our institutional mobile apps. We used the Canvas API to provide an engaging, seamless, mobile student experience as we launched Canvas to our institutions. Learn what...