Introducing: Canvas Certified Technical Admin CCTA Now Available for Purchase! What’s Included in This Post? • CCTA is ready to launch! • All about what's included in the CCTA program • How to find out more and how to enroll   Are you a technical admin of your Canvas instance, or do you expect to be one? The Canvas Certified Technical Admin (CCTA) program is designed to provide technical admins the knowledge they need to ensure a successful setup, design, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of their Canvas instances. This program was released at the end of January 2023, and the first cohort will begin on February 20, 2023. All the info you need is here! Creating A 'Living' Admin Plan We're so excited to launch this new program in our suite of Canvas Certified options. You asked, and we listened!  Last summer we let you know we were working on building Canvas Certified Technical Admin (CCTA). Many of you gave us feedback about what you wished you knew when you were just getting started as a Canvas admin. We took that great info, and also met with Canvas Support to design the courses in CCTA. What we've come up with is a three-course program that will help ANY Canvas admin - new, experienced, root, sub-account - create an Admin Plan for their instance that will ensure best practice, design, and upkeep of institutional knowledge. What Does the CCTA Program Look Like? The CCTA program is made up of 2 CORE courses and 1 Elective. The CORE courses are: CORE 1: Canvas Account Organization & Authorization - Explore the best practices and options related to account organization, course management, users and permissions, and authentication and data provisioning CORE 2: Canvas Settings & Management - Examine the best practices and options related to settings and tools, analytics and reporting, shared resources, and support and training After completing the 2 CORE courses, participants will select an Elective to complete their certification. The current electives are listed below. New electives will be added each year: ELECTIVE Option: Leading with Canvas for Technical Admins - explore the ways a tech leader can use Canvas to foster a collaborative learning culture by building interpersonal relationships with users and designing opportunities and sustainable structures for users to effectively collaborate to improve student learning ELECTIVE Option: Using the Canvas API - This course will help technical admins understand, setup, and discover ways to use the Canvas APIs. Both the Canvas REST API and the GraphQL API will be addressed PRO TIP: When we say Canvas Admin, we mean anyone with the Admin shield in a Canvas instance who has permissions to make changes to the Admin area of an instance, including sub-account admins and those with limited admin access.    The CCTA program is designed similarly to our Canvas Certified Educator program. The courses are: Asynchronous with due dates - each course is six weeks long Designed for participant engagement - courses have rich learning experiences, great take-aways and tools you won't find anywhere else, and provide opportunities to learn from your cohort peers Facilitated by a Canvas Certified Technical Admin - facilitators will help guide discussions, answer questions, post reminders and announcements, and provide feedback on assessments Project-based - no seat time requirement, and no tests. Instead, participants will be creating a piece of their Admin Plan with every Module's assessment More Information In addition to great learning and the creation of the admin plan each participant will have after going through the program, we also have an additional benefit. For those that purchase through Instructure (from your sales rep, your CSM, or from a Canvas Certified rep), there will be an additional Support benefit. Canvas Certified Technical Admins will be able to route their Support tickets directly to an L2 agent, which is a fantastic added benefit! We are having two kick-off webinars during the month of February: Tuesday, February 7, @ 1 p.m. ET (K12 focus). The link to the webinar is here Tuesday, February 21, @ 1 p.m. ET. To sign up for that webinar, please click here Need more information? You can check out our CCTA FAQ and our CCTA One-Pager.  Final Thoughts   We are so grateful for our amazing community! Thank you to everyone who has given us support, ideas, and suggestions as we built this new offering. We are so excited to welcome our very first cohort of CCTA participants, and hope you consider joining us.   Our Canvas Certified team is committed to creating asynchronous, facilitated professional learning that is high-impact and meaningful. We currently offer Canvas Certified Educator, and are working on additional offerings. If you would like to learn more about our Canvas Certified Educator, you can visit our Canvas Certified Educator FAQs or send us an email at cce@instructure.com.  ... View more

Canvas Certified Educator Turns 2! Celebrate with Us - November 7-11, 2022 What’s Included in This Post? • Celebrating our graduates, participants, and future participants! • We have CCE swag and gifts to give away! • Join us in one of our birthday week activities!   It's our birthday! Canvas Certified Educator turns 2 on November 9, 2022, and we have plans to celebrate with our CanvasFam all week long! We have events scheduled during the week, special posts planned from our graduates and current participants, a bunch of gifts, and even a few surprises! Celebrating Our Participants and Graduates It's official - we're turning 2! We can't believe how far we've come so far! It started with an idea to provide high-quality professional learning experiences to our Canvas Family. After many years developing, writing, and testing the content, we were ready to launch the big idea this time last year. The Canvas Certified Educator program - six courses, tailored for K12 and HE - launched officially on Monday, November 9, 2020. Our first cohort - Cohort A - had 304 enrollees from K12 and Higher Ed, from all over the United States, and even a few international friends. Today, as we head into the start of our THIRD year, we are currently offering Cohort Q, and have had 1,040 graduates so far, with more folks finishing and becoming Canvas Certified every day. We have graduates from across the globe: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Iceland, Indonesia, Iraq, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom! We are continually amazed at what the participants in the program have done to transform teaching and learning with Canvas. Every day, the facilitators and program managers of the Canvas Certified Educator program learn something new from the CCE participants, and we think that is an amazing gift.  Speaking of Gifts... What's a birthday without presents? We have gifts to give to our graduates, current participants, and folks who hope to join us in the future! From CCE swag, to Teacher Pro accounts from our friends and partners at ThingLink, to full scholarships in the program, we have lots of opportunities to snag a gift during our birthday week. And all you have to do is help us celebrate! Celebrate with Us! So what's happening in the week-long party? Check it out! Every Day: Follow along on Twitter (we'll post from my account @MsKeefe) or on LinkedIn (we'll post from my account here). Each day we'll post what a CCE grad and a current CCE participant has to say about their CCE experience! Monday, 11/7 - CCE Social: We're holding a CCE Social for CCE grads and current participants on Monday, November 7, from 7-8 p.m. If you are a grad or a current participant, sign up to join us! During the Social, you'll be able to: Meet and network with other current participants! Meet and network with our awesome facilitators! Hear about some updates coming soon to Canvas Certified! Give us some suggestions about how we can make CCE even more awesome! Participate in a Q & A! Participants who join us will also be entered to win our top birthday prizes, including ThingLink Pro subscription (10 available) CCE Scholarship for a friend or colleague (10 available) Wednesday, 11/9 - CCE Info Sessions: Want to learn more about the CCE program? Join us for an info session! We're holding 2. Each session will be held in Zoom, last 30 minutes, and attendees can win a full scholarship to the CCE program! Sign up below (or share this info with a friend!): Wednesday, November 9 CCE Info Session at 4 p.m. ET - sign up here Wednesday, November 9 CCE Info Session at 6 p.m. ET - sign up here Thursday, 11/10 - Twitter Chat: Our CCE Facilitators will be posting topics and questions about Canvas Certified Educator. Participate in the chat to be entered to win one of our gifts! Follow the #CCETurns2 and #CanvasCertified on Thursday to join in! Final Thoughts   We are so excited to celebrate with you! Please join in on the fun with us!     Our Canvas Certified team is committed to creating asynchronous, facilitated professional learning that is high-impact and meaningful. We currently offer Canvas Certified Educator, and are working on additional offerings. If you would like to learn more about our Canvas Certified Educator program, you can visit our Canvas Certified Educator FAQs or send us an email at cce@instructure.com.  ... View more

  What You Wish You Knew As a New Canvas Admin Gathering Ideas for Canvas Certified Admin What’s Included in This Post? • We're building Canvas Certified Admin (yay!) • We want to hear what your advice to new admins is • We have a few ways you can share your ideas   Are you a Canvas Admin? Have you helped to roll out a small or large-scale implementation and adoption of Canvas? This post is for you. The Canvas Certified Team is building a new offering - Canvas Certified Admin - and we need your input! We want to hear all about what you wish you knew, mistakes you made along the way, and what you think is important for us to include in a certification program that specifically targets new Canvas Admins.  Something New Is Coming! We launched Canvas Certified Educator in November 2020, and it wasn't long before we heard, "When are you going to offer Canvas Certified Admin?" We've always known this was the next big thing we wanted to build in the Canvas Certified suite, and now is the time! Right now, the Canvas Certified team is starting to build this new offering, focusing on Canvas Admins, to guide them through implementation and adoption. We can't do this alone, so this is where you come in! Tell Us What You Think We Should Include We need your input. When you began your journey as a Canvas Admin, what did you wish you knew ahead of time? What were the skills you needed? What programs did you use? How did you keep it all organized and run like a well-oiled machine?   In addition, what advice would you give to any new Canvas Admin before beginning this journey? PRO TIP: When we say Canvas Admin, we mean anyone with the Admin shield in a Canvas instance who has permissions to make changes to the Admin area of an instance, including subaccount admins and those with limited admin access.    Ready...Set...Go! We're ready to hear all of your ideas for what we need to include! You can respond in two ways: Complete this form and/or Respond below and tag @erin_keefe  and/or @KCTesterman  Either way, you are helping to guide the future users of Canvas, and we thank you for that! Final Thoughts   We really can't do this without you. Thank you for considering adding your valuable advice so we can make sure all of the new Canvas Admins are ready to be awesome.     Our Canvas Certified team is committed to creating asynchronous, facilitated professional learning that is high-impact and meaningful. We currently offer Canvas Certified Educator, and are working on additional offerings. If you would like to learn more about our Canvas Certified Educator, you can visit our Canvas Certified Educator FAQs or send us an email at cce@instructure.com.  ... View more

  This Valentine's Day, celebrate with Canvas Certified Educator!  Tell us why you love Canvas Certified Educator & you'll get a chance to receive this pin:   We have 50 of these pins to give out to folks who create a Valentine to the Canvas Certified Educator program and share it here, or other places on social media. If you're interested, here are the steps for your chance at one of the 50 pins! Steps to Take to for Your Chance at the  #CCELovesYouBack Pin Pick a Valentine Template (or make your own if you're feeling creative!) from the list we have posted here. Each of the templates lives in Canva, and you can make a copy and customize it! Save your Valentine, and share the image along with why you love the Canvas Certified Educator Program. You can share it on social media, and/or below! Use the hashtags #ILoveCCE, #CCEinProgress, #CanvasCertified, and #CCELovesYouBack Finally, fill out this Google Form to let us know you participated! We can't wait to see your valentines and reasons why you love the Canvas Certified Educator program! Happy Valentine's Day from the team at Canvas Certified Educator!  Canvas Certified Educator (CCE) is designed by educators for educators. A series of six online courses make up the program, aimed to strengthen your hands-on experience teaching with Canvas as you learn pedagogical best practices for online and blended learning. We offer both a K12 and a Higher Ed track. More information is available here: Canvas Certified Educator FAQs. You can also contact us at cce@instructure.com. ... View more

This Valentine's Day, celebrate with Canvas Certified Educator!  Tell us why you love Canvas Certified Educator & you'll get a chance to receive this pin: We have 50 of these pins to give out to folks who create a Valentine to the Canvas Certified Educator program and share it here, or other places on social media. If you're interested, here are the steps for your chance at one of the 50 pins! Steps to Take to for Your Chance at the  #CCELovesYouBack Pin Pick a Valentine Template (or make your own if you're feeling creative!) from the list we have posted here. Each of the templates lives in Canva, and you can make a copy and customize it! Save your Valentine, and share the image along with why you love the Canvas Certified Educator Program. You can share it on social media, and/or below! Use the hashtags #ILoveCCE, #CCEinProgress, #CanvasCertified, and #CCELovesYouBack Finally, fill out this Google Form to let us know you participated! We can't wait to see your valentines and reasons why you love the Canvas Certified Educator program! Happy Valentine's Day from the team at Canvas Certified Educator!  Canvas Certified Educator (CCE) is designed by educators for educators. A series of six online courses make up the program, aimed to strengthen your hands-on experience teaching with Canvas as you learn pedagogical best practices for online and blended learning. We offer both a K12 and a Higher Ed track. More information is available here: Canvas Certified Educator FAQs. You can also contact us at cce@instructure.com. ... View more

Instructure and ThingLink are delighted to announce that they are working together to offer educators easily managed, and accessible, interactive learning experiences.    The partnership will initially offer educators a new engaging way to become Certified in using Canvas, the leading platform globally for managing learning.  ThingLink, a pioneer in interactive learning with multimedia, is the first partner Canvas has chosen to feature in their Certified Educator program bringing new benefits to their participants. Educators in the program will Learn about getting the most out of Canvas with new interactive resources Have first hand experience of the power of interactive media Learn about new more contextual ways to engage their students from visualizing a course structure to scenario based learning Learn about how to combine different types of media to engage audiences Become members of the Canvas and ThingLink educator communities with discounts and advance news of features! Enable you to be a recognized certified educator! Check out this ThingLink with more information about the partnership! Ulla- Maaria Koivula, CEO and Founder of ThingLink: Working with the Canvas certified teacher community is a truly exciting partnership opportunity for us, and it is a good example of how the adoption of new solutions in teaching often starts from inspiring  teacher education. Whilst we already have support for LTI standard 1.3, we look forward to building on this strategic partnership with further technical integrations within the Canvas LMS.  Erin Keefe, Canvas Certified Educator Coordinator, Instructure: ThingLink is the perfect partner for the Canvas Certified Educator program. We are so excited to use this amazing tool to show participants in the program how they can elevate their teaching and learning with the power of ThingLink in Canvas. For more information about the Canvas Certified Educator program, visit our website at https://www.instructure.com/canvas/canvas-certification. For more information about ThingLink, visit their website at  https://www.thinglink.com/en-us/. ... View more

  It started with an idea to provide high-quality professional learning experiences to our Canvas Family. After many years developing, writing, and testing the content, we were ready to launch the big idea this time last year. The Canvas Certified Educator program - six courses, tailored for K12 and HE - began on Monday, November 9, 2020. Our first cohort - Cohort A - had 304 enrollees from K12 and Higher Ed, from all over the United States, and even a few international friends. Today, as we head into the start of our second year, we are currently offering Cohort I, and have 1100 participants at some stage of the program. We are proud to say that we have had 430 graduates so far, with more folks finishing and becoming Canvas Certified every day. We are continually amazed at what the participants in the program have done to transform teaching and learning with Canvas. Every day, the facilitators and program managers of the Canvas Certified Educator program learn something new from the CCE participants, and we think that is an amazing gift.  Speaking of gifts...since it's our birthday, we think some gifts are in order. We have some special surprises for our CCE Grads, as well as the folks currently in the program (who we lovingly refer to as In Progress). And we want to include everyone who isn't yet in the program, but would like to be. So - here's what we're doing!  Everyone can earn chances to win our big prizes - the big prizes are scholarships to the CCE program. In total, we'll give away 10 full scholarships.  For Graduates, the winners will select a friend or colleague to give the gift of the scholarship  For In Progress, the winners can select a friend or colleague to give the gift of the scholarship, or, if they are paying for the program out of pocket, can apply the scholarship to their remaining program courses  For New to the Program, winners will receive a full scholarship (all 6 courses) to the Canvas Certified Educator program How can folks earn chances to win the prizes? By getting involved in sharing about the CCE program, or why they'd like to be involved in it. We have all of the info on our CCE Turns 1 website here. Check it out! We'll be posting CCE fun facts, stories, and videos all week on Twitter. You can follow along by following me (@MsKeefe) and/or the hashtags #CCETurns1, #CCEinProgress, and #CanvasCertified. We also have a social media wall for the birthday festivities here: CCE Turns 1 Social Media Wall.    For more information about the Canvas Certified Educator program, please visit our CCE Frequently Asked Questions site. You can also email us at cce@instructure.com.   ... View more