Drowning in data but struggling to make it meaningful? Join us on a journey to transform numbers into actionable insights using Mastery Connect! In this session, we’ll share how we built educator buy-in, shifted mindsets, and empowered teachers to use data in meaningful ways.
The University of Cincinnati Online has recently made the switch to using a CRM, Salesforce, to help our Instruction Team manage and track the work we do across 10 colleges in Canvas. The transition to using Salesforce has allowed for better work tracking, more efficiencies, cross-functional collaboration, and greater data reporting with key external and internal partners across the university.
In this session, you will explore UMD’s innovative strategies for navigating Canvas to enhance learning experiences, utilize analytics and reporting, and empower faculty and staff through workshops and training. We hope you will join us to see firsthand how data-informed decision-making can trailblaze educational goals and inspire your institution’s future!
Success isn’t just about collecting data—it’s about using it effectively. Oscar Smith Middle School exemplifies this by leveraging Mastery Connect, Canvas, and Impact to transform Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), personalize instruction, and improve test scores, achieving state accreditation.
Ever wonder how to deliver value and justify the ROI for Intelligent Insights? Sometimes it takes some out of the box thinking to figure out how data and analytics can and should be used. In this session, we’ll discuss the top 10 ways we got creative and delivered measurable return on our investment in Intelligent Insights.
Over the past school year, Union Schools has utilized "Ask Your Data" to enhance student support and monitor teacher efficacy. Principals and counselors have used custom pinboards to monitor low performing students and provide timely support.
"School’s Out, Strategy’s In: Summer Planning with Data-Driven EdTech Insights," focuses on utilizing LearnPlatform and Impact dashboards to manage educational technology tools. The presentation highlights how these platforms help school districts track edtech usage, ensure data privacy and accessibility compliance, and make informed decisions about tool adoption and investment.
‘EdTech Management’ isn’t often thought of as required infrastructure in K-12 organizations–but with the average district utilizing 2,500+ unique edtech tools during the 2022-23 school year it’s becoming a critical consideration for budgeting and student success.
This session explores strategic approaches to utilizing the Canvas ecosystem to enhance professional development programs. The discussion will cover successful marketing strategies that have broadened participant engagement and expanded reach beyond traditional boundaries.
During the session, the presenters will share live samples from the course modules. Presenters will share lessons learned and share feedback from administrators and staff that will be used to make revisions for year two.
Canvas Credentials provides a powerful badging platform, but some critical data points remain inaccessible through traditional APIs and exports. This session will explore how Selenium, a browser automation tool, can be leveraged to extract hidden data and generate meaningful reports that would otherwise be difficult to obtain.
This session will explore how CVTC implements Ed Tech Academy, measures its impact on student success rates, and empowers faculty to present their course transformations during professional development events. Join us to discover strategies for implementing a similar initiative at your institution.
This session showcases DeVry's groundbreaking implementation of Praxis AI's human-centered digital twin technology. Unlike traditional reactive AI assistants, DeVry's approach creates context-aware agentic professors that proactively observe student behavior, determine appropriate tactics for each situation, and autonomously engage learners through Canvas.
As artificial intelligence rapidly evolves, online learning institutions must proactively address both its challenges and opportunities. Over the past 18 months, Montana Digital Academy (MTDA) has developed a comprehensive approach to AI use in student learning, balancing innovation with academic integrity.
Change is hard. Rolling out new campus-wide policies doesn’t have to be an uphill battle. This session shares smart, practical strategies for implementing and revising digital badging policies in higher ed with less resistance and confusion.
We will share implementation journey so far, our successes and challenges, how it has already proven a valuable tool, and how we see it as a vital asset in our future quality assurance, by leveraging data and AI and thus supporting staff and students and fostering culture of continuous improvement. This holistic approach ensures that we can provide high-quality education and meet accreditation standards effectively.
Leveraging Canvas Data 2.0, the University of Florida's Information Technology has developed a tool that brings together Canvas data, institutional data, and student feedback as a plugin accessible from the instructor's Canvas page.
This session will take participants on a deep dive into this critical gap, focusing on practical strategies for successful adoption. We'll explore key considerations, including stakeholder engagement, organizational readiness, targeted training, and transparent communication.
Taking the first steps down the path to a new Learning Management System (LMS) is a significant endeavor. This session reveals our institution's meticulous process of transitioning from a favored LMS to Canvas. Through detailed surveys, focus groups, and an extensive market analysis, we navigated community culture and positive reviews of our long-time LMS to make an informed decision on whether or not to adopt Canvas.
AI in learning—thrilling, but where do you even begin? This presentation sparks your curiosity with big ideas to ponder, not a checklist to follow. Hang on—could regulations around AI use in education raise questions worth a lively debate? Wait a sec, might its code carry biases that shape how it ‘reads’ students? Let’s explore the what-ifs of AI in action, then dive into an LTI app built on top of Canvas: one that jumps into student discussion posts with thought-provoking replies and lets you query an entire thread to uncover insights worth mulling over.
Discover the transformative potential of Google for Education’s partnership with Instructure and learn how it can enhance your courses. This presentation demonstrates how Google’s AI tools, when integrated with the Canvas LMS, improve EdTech teaching and learning at a large public university.
This session will demystify Intelligent Insights’ "Ask your Data" feature, offering attendees a practical guide to prompt engineering, equipping you with the skills necessary to find the information needed.
Using Lambda, S3, Glue, and Athena, we built a dynamic, scalable system that collects, stores, and queries Canvas Data 2 (CD2) on demand without the hefty price tag of traditional databases. Following a year of operational deployment, this approach has proven its merit. We've slashed costs, boosted flexibility, and future-proofed our data strategy.
At the University of Birmingham, UK, we have partnered with Canvas as our VLE provision since 2013. As our usage has evolved it has become the central platform for our ecosystem, with additional tools incorporated for assessment in STEM, lecture capture, search, and collaboration.
In this session, attendees explore innovative strategies to transform course design and assessment using the latest Canvas tools within Professional Learning Communities. The presentation highlights practical techniques for integrating BluePrint courses and non-negotiable course structures, empowering educators to standardize quality while enhancing learning experiences.
Canvas Data 2 is a great source of information regarding your Canvas service. However, there are challenges in obtaining the data in a quick and efficient manner.
We have surveys, anecdotes, and Canvas Analytics telling us how our users are interacting with our product in Canvas, but we found ourselves still limited in what we could glean from these insights and stuck on how to influence and inform our users.
This panel discussion explores the impact and functionality of Canvas Intelligent Insights from both user and product development standpoints. Two representatives from UT Tyler will share firsthand experiences from the decision making process to adopt the tool, implementing the tool, as well as the benefits, challenges, and strategies for driving adoption.
