Play Hidden Games in Canvas

Did you know there are hidden games inside of Canvas? Taking a quick break from teaching and learning in Canvas can be a nice stress relief and an opportunity for a little bit of harmless fun in yo...

New Rich Content Editor FAQ with GIFs

As I’m sure you all know, the new rich content editor (RCE) will be the default starting on June 20, 2020, as announced by Instructure. The rich content editor is the formatting toolbar visible wh...

Studio Screen Capture Bug in macOS Catalina 10.15

When doing a Screen Capture in Canvas Studio, the option to record from a webcam in addition to recording the screen isn't working. I've tried it on 2 different Macs running macOS Catalina (10.15) in...

PRE-CON: API 101: Introduction to APIs

  Presentation Title PRE-CON: API 101: Introduction to APIs InstructureCon Session Info   Summary The Canvas API is crazy powerful and can be used to perform a bunch of actions a...

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We're Adopting Canvas as Our LMS?! Faculty Perspectives on the Challenges, Opportunities, and Outcomes of Switching to Canvas

Replay our session at InstCon 2019! Presentation Title We're Adopting Canvas as Our LMS?! Faculty Perspectives on the Challenges, Opportunities, and Outcomes of Switching to Canvas Session Ove...

How to Use the Canvas Guides

I realize this is a bit 'meta' but I wanted to highlight the usefulness of the Canvas guides. Each of the guides has a table of contents that makes it really easy to find the topic you are looking fo...

Get Notified Right Away About a Course 'Content Link Error'

This CanvasTip actually came from one of my faculty and I thought it was definitely worth sharing. In a user's account Notification preferences, there's an option under Alerts called&nbs...

Use 'Act as User' in Canvas Mobile App

I had a situation this morning when I needed to "act as" a student in a course via the Canvas Student app. I knew the "Act as User" functionality was there but I never had an opportunity to try it ou...

Colorful Canvas Stickers

We made some cool Canvas stickers! :smileycool:   We plan to have a Canvas kick-off event for our students soon. If they show us they have the Canvas Student app installed on their mobi...

Building with Canvas - New Student Tutorial Course

Most of us would probably agree, students don't "need" a tutorial on using Canvas. Students are following the lead of their instructor in terms of course design. However, it may not hu...