Our Techfomercials—short videos styled like classic infomercials—are designed to both entertain and inform, making it easier for faculty to fully leverage Canvas. Join us to see how we’ve made exploring Canvas features both practical and fun, and walk away with ideas for helping your faculty get the most out of Canvas! With its powerful tools and features, Canvas can significantly enhance teaching, and it’s crucial to empower faculty to use it to its fullest.

In this forward-looking panel discussion, join education technology leaders from Instructure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) as they explore how AI agents are poised to revolutionize teaching and help educators take back their time.

How do you meet the diverse needs of all your learners? With the transformative potential of modern classrooms, how do you use technology in purposeful ways to get you to the core of what learning is about - connection, interaction and relationships?

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.

This presentation will demonstrate how schools and/or districts should go about planning the implementation of Canvas, and how to train teachers to use it successfully with students.

Join us as we soar high to take a birds-eye view of how we redesigned our professional development program (Soaring with Online Learning) for flexibility to meet the needs of all university faculty (even those teaching in-person) by offering courses in Canvas Catalog and awarding stacked micro-credentials through learning pathways in Canvas Credentials.

As AI continues to shape higher education, institutions need effective ways to showcase innovative uses of AI in teaching, research, and administrative work. In this session, we will share our AI Showcase, a publicly available Canvas course designed to highlight faculty-led AI initiatives. The showcase features exemplary work submitted in two categories: course-specific applications and broader AI use cases, including administrative efficiency, creative scholarship, and research.

"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. 

Transform online classroom with real-time feedback. Traditional evaluations are often too late for meaningful changes. We integrated brief, targeted pop-up surveys, using Canvas Impact, for immediate insights, allowing for rapid course adjustments and addressing issues before they significantly impact student learning outcomes. Future to include expanding surveys to faculty.

This session will showcase how Chesterfield County Public Schools leveraged Canvas to create an innovative, in-house solution for asynchronous credit recovery, reducing costs while expanding opportunities for at-risk seniors. The PACE program, utilizing vetted Virginia Department of Education content, offers two types of recovery courses: one for students repeating a course and one for first-time takers.

‘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.

In this session, we’ll explore TEL Education’s innovative approach to structuring and managing multiple institutions efficiently within Canvas. We’ll provide a comprehensive overview of our SIS ID structure, subaccount framework, course versioning system, and section structure, highlighting how these elements work together to streamline course delivery, improve administrative efficiency, and enhance the learning experience. 

Supported by research about assessment best practices and chock full of useful tips and how-to information, this presentation highlights ways instructors of any discipline can use New Quizzes features with other Canvas tools in innovative ways to create more authentic, engaging, higher-cognitive-level assessments that promote learning—while still saving time grading large numbers of students.

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.

This session double clicks into our new intentional, integrated AI approach to foster confidence, drive effective adoption, and create educational value for institutions. Discover new and upcoming ways you can use AI in Instructure products for content creation, equity, grading, data insights, and more – with a focus on transparency and deep integrations. We’ll share ways to get involved in early adopter programs to co-build with us.

This session will explore the use of Canvas for Continuing Education Courses, focusing on Canvas Catalog, Credentials, and Outcomes. Learn how to manage one comprehensive Canvas course segmented by grading terms, track outcomes for skills badging, and ensure faculty training for rubric tracking.

This training will cover a range of powerful tools and strategies to create an inclusive and adaptive learning environment. This presentation will discuss key elements of Course Design, Assignment Types, and tools that help teachers differentiate instruction within their course. Popular tools we’ll highlight include: Immersive Reader, Mastery Paths, Canvas Studio, New Quizzes, and more!

Learning Management Systems don't come cheap, but there’s a good reason for that! Learn how one institution leverages the full capability of Canvas LMS to engage faculty and provide a hub for instructors to access the resources needed to utilize the LMS Eco-system, including third-party integrations, how-to guides, instructional design guidance, AI tool kits, innovative teaching practices, and professional development.

This session will share global insights on AI’s role in education, introduce Turnitin Clarity, a new solution promoting transparency and equitable grading, and offer strategies for educator-guided AI use.

This session explores Instructure’s intentional, integrated AI approach to foster confidence, drive effective adoption, and create educational value for institutions. 

Transform your professional development programs with the power of the Instructure Learning Platform! This session explores how to leverage Canvas, Catalog, Credentials, Studio, Commons, and Impact to create, manage, and deliver engaging PD. We'll showcase how Instructure is using these tools to power our own internal PD and Certified Programs.

See how Parchment helps Higher Ed better support communicating their students’ achievements – from transcripts and diplomas to skills-based credentials, like digital badges and certificates.

Learn how K-12 can use a comprehensive suite of integrated tools to make credentials more accessible to learners and open up college and workforce opportunities.

Discover how to revolutionize online professional development through strategic Canvas course design that drives authentic learner engagement and implementation of learning objectives. 

Making the switch from Blackboard to Canvas can feel overwhelming, but this session will provide practical tips and tricks helping to make the transition a smooth one.

By leveraging Canvas to support the whole learner, students can gain comfort and confidence in their school life and learning paths, freeing them up to focus on more personal things. Canvas can be structured to help them organize their learning and navigate their growing responsibilities.

What makes a “good teacher” in the eyes of first-year undergraduates? This session dives into a fascinating case study viewed through the lens of the TPACK model. Discover how students’ perceptions challenged traditional ideas and added unexpected dimensions to the model. Join us to explore why these findings matter more than ever and how they can inform teaching practices.

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.

Canvas is more than just a Learning Management System for coursework—it is a powerful tool for communication, collaboration, and engagement beyond the traditional classroom.