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 @p_gravestock ‌   Changing hearts and minds was a key element of our Canvas deployment, so we wanted the first introduction to be about pedagogy, not the product. Find out how we developed our change management processes and training approaches—with...

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Suzie Lavallee   As a part of the implementation of Canvas at UBC, we developed the "Canvas Shorts" series, a task-oriented series of short communications written by instructors, for instructors. These pieces identify work-around solutions for common...

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Matthew Jennings   Individual and Team Readiness Assurance Tests (iRATs and tRATs) are foundational to team-based learning. These are usually implemented in live courses, but what about online? Come one, come all. Step right up and see how the UAB Sc...

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Laura Gremmel   By combining sound pedagogical principles with new methods of data collection from Canvas, this presentation will offer a method for visualizing classroom data to evaluate the effectiveness of course material, highlight concepts that ...

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 @samson ‌   It is sobering and useful to know what students are doing during class and how their behaviors are related to grades. This talk describes how data from Canvas, Echo360 and surveys are combined and mined to produce evidence-based feedback...

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Michelle Torsen   We know Canvas is easy. Getting learning outcomes into Canvas—now that can be a three-ring circus: juggling instructor engagement, walking the assessment map tightrope, and taming the data tiger. We'll share lessons from our frolic ...

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Martonia Gaskill   The overarching goal of this presentation is to discuss the use of learning analytics in Canvas to track and predict students' performances, and to provide timely support for their success in their online courses. In addition, the ...

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 @Adrienne_J_Gaut ‌   How does your institution integrate library resources and reserves into Canvas? Let's compare notes and give each other feedback! Learn about our journey of bringing together campus partners in developing a (mostly) seamless exp...

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Fred Dixon   Canvas Conferences goes big with three new feats: an Arc integration to automatically publish your recordings to Arc, an analytics integration to give you detailed user statistics from your online sessions (attendance, participation, and...

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Using the students activity and engagement data from Canvas through the provided "Canvas data" and "live events" to do advanced data-science techniques on course analytics, engagement analytics, learning patterns, predictive analytics and support edu...

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 @joel_mills ‌   The University of Hull has been developing assessment methodologies and approaches using quizzes, video assessment, video feedback, badges, and game-based learning to create impact and change in assessment approaches. This presentati...

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Erin Green   We created a Canvas support chatbot to answer our users' most frequently asked questions. We'll walk you through the thinking processes we used when designing the bot, technical considerations, and what we would do differently next time....

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 @hilary_wheaton ‌   Hear two staff members, from different areas of a large university (80,000+ students), detail the collaborative approach taken by a dual-sector higher education institution in its implementation of Canvas, including both training...

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Jarred Truschke   Approaching Canvas as an artist would approach a blank canvas has allowed Webster University to be creative with their instance. Take a peek at the internal design processes, code, and thought that goes into customizing Canvas from ...

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David Passey   A live demonstration of creating Blueprint courses, migrating a template and then associating the new blueprint course to the associated courses. This presentation would focus on the Python code beneath the operation as well as our exp...

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Paul Wamsted   Forget flying through the air on the trapeze. Air University, the educational and intellectual center for the United States Air Force, has adopted Canvas. We'll discuss the trials of deploying Canvas to a secure environment, getting se...

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Carrie Lorenz   Need a better look at what's happening within your Canvas instance? Figuring out which users are doing well and which are just clowning around? At the University of Denver, we've built a small application to gather data from Canvas fo...

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 @lwhitleyputz ‌   Groups are a powerful tool to enhance collaboration and empower student production of content. Learn the ins-and-outs of using Canvas groups, from creating sets to using the group workspace (and get some great resources for structu...

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Jacob Collins   Single-page applications combined with microservices have many advantages of traditional server-side applications. Benefits include drastically cheaper hosting and almost limitless scalability. Keeping these applications secure has al...

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 @mclark19 ‌   Working with Canvas data can be a thrill ride, requiring data downloading acrobatics and a balancing act between effort and insight. We'll share our experience from the past year and our goal of luring campus partners into our tent to ...

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Peter Fulks   Tying together campus-wide metrics and online classroom pedagogy, the presenters will demonstrate their unique partnership and methodology of client-side LTI script-writing to mine new Canvas metrics and the concrete results of newly de...

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 @travis_thurston ‌   Creating effective and engaging online discussions for students is an ongoing challenge. This evidence-based approach addresses typical deficiencies in online discussions and creates an architecture of engagement using inherent ...

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Garrett Williams   UCVirtual utilizes a student-centered, content-first approach to create engaging Canvas courses. Integrating tools such as Articulate, Adobe, Badgr, and Google Suite allows Canvas developers and teachers to balance the very best of...

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Thomas Wier   Accentuate class participation, eliminate procrastination, and stay away from Dr. Putyoutosleep. This presentation will help instructors of face-to-face courses integrate Canvas into their pedagogical approach to remove common stumbling...

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Christin Deville   Are Blueprints just templates? How do Blueprints work and what can they do for your Canvas instance? What can UI users do with Blueprints versus back-end system admins? How to Automate applying Blueprints to courses in Canvas. What...

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LorAyn Sticker   With over 15,000 instructional personnel and 234 schools in grades K–12, Broward County Public Schools has a tremendous responsibility in training teachers to implement Canvas in everyday teaching and learning. This presentation outl...

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Kim Meyer   Accreditation visits are already carnivalesque, but what if they could be as fun as a real carnival? Canvas Outcomes make accreditation less tedious! This session provides a demonstration of setting up accreditation standards and programm...

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cfierro‌   Learn how Commons can strengthen campus professional development. You don't have to steal our tricks. We'll share them to help you soar to new heights in your own show. When the tent goes down, you'll still have these novelties to delight ...

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