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Say hello to the newest member of the Instructure family - Portfolium. Portfolium is your free digital portfolio tool to visually showcase your academic and professional accomplishments and experiences. It is also your own unique personal branding tool, integrating a professional profile with social media and job-seeking features. The platform makes it very easy for you to not only search for and apply to jobs, but to also share your work with friends, colleagues and the very employers you want to work for!       The free Portfolium Network is now seamlessly integrated into the Canvas LMS user experience. You will have lifelong access to your Folio where you can organize learning artifacts, connect with other Portfolium users and curate content to help showcase your skills to potential employers.    In addition to these exciting announcements, Instructure’s Training Department is happy to introduce you to a new training course designed to help you create, customize and share your Folio.     About the Course: The Portfolium Network training course consists of three modules of content that guide you through everything you need to know about Portfolium Folios.  Use the information found in the course to create a brand new Folio or to access your existing Folio from within Canvas. All users, administrators, faculty and students, are invited to participate in the course.      Where you Can Find this Course: This course is available via public link: The Portfolium Network  Use this link to view and participate in the course. At this time the course is not available to be downloaded or adapted.     You can also enroll yourself in the course through the Canvas Network.  Check out this guide to learn more about enrolling in a course through the Canvas Network.      Updates:  We will post all updates to the course below, as they are made. Subscribe to this post to stay up to date! ... View more

Canvas Mobile Apps (90 mins)   Alicia Smith This training is designed to help teachers better understand the many ways the Canvas mobile apps suite can improve the classroom experience for both students and teachers. During this webinar you'll learn the features and functionality of the Canvas app, how to improve assessment workflow using the SpeedGrader and Magic Marker apps, and how to increase engagement using Polls. Click to Register ($125)       We would love to hear from attendees! Please share any questions or thoughts you might have before, during and after the presentation! ... View more

  Canvas Outcomes and Rubrics (90 mins)   Alicia Smith This training reviews best practices for utilizing Outcomes and Rubrics in Canvas assignments, discussions, and quizzes, along with specific applications of the Learning Mastery Gradebook and the Canvas Magic Marker app. Click to Register ($125)       We would love to hear from attendees! Please share any questions or thoughts you might have before, during and after the presentation! ... View more

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas I want to be able to specify that a quiz is worth 30 points on the settings page.   If I want every question to be worth the same amount I don't want to have to go in and change the point value for each individual question. Comments from Instructure This idea was completed with general availability of Quizzes.Next.  You can find more information about the overall project in the Quizzes.Next User Group.‌ Quizzes.Next is now available for all paid accounts. Quizzes.Next documentation will live in the Quizzes.Next User Group until July 14, 2018. On July 14, 2018, all of the documentation will be moved to the Canvas Guides in the Canvas Instructor Guide or Canvas Student Guide.  Quizzes.Next updates will be included in the Canvas Release Notes. This includes new features, updated features, and relevant fixed bugs. New and updated features will be deployed to Quizzes.Next near the same time as the Canvas release. Fixed bugs may be deployed at any time. ... View more