2018 Reflection: Canvas is Family

As I reflect on last year, I can’t help but truly think – what happened? I was attempting to reflect (like, actually reflect, reflect), and in talking with the best manager in the world,  @tdeli...

Day 9: CanvasLIVE Event Types

On the ninth day of Canvasmas, the Canvas Community gave to me: nine CanvasLIVE Event Types…   I have a lot of reasons why I love the Community, but one of those is certainly the free C...

Day 6: Points for Helping

On the sixth day of Canvasmas, the Canvas Community gave to me: Six Points for Helping…   Who doesn’t like to be rewarded for a little extra hard work here and there? Or better yet, for tho...

Help with Element Toggler and aria-expanded Settings

Hello, all! I'm trying to use the Element Toggler feature from the style guide inside of a course. When I set aria-expanded to "false", they are still all expanded. Is this expected behavior? Or s...

Creating LTI's to Expand Canvas

I've long been curious of the openness of Canvas and how anyone off the street can create an LTI to interact with the LMS. I think we can all agree that this is one of the strengths of Canvas - and o...

Nudge

I loved attending Deactivated user‌'s session on how Instructure is approaching artificial intelligence and how this can impact education (the official session title was "The Canvas of the Future - A...

CU Denver Shares Canvas Data/Tableau

My first introduction to canvas data‌ and tableau‌ came at the hands of both  @brenden_goetz ‌ and  @alexander_kark1 ‌. These topics have been mentioned around my institution, and...

Conversation on...Search?

On day two of instcon‌ I stopped by the Community Booth and chatted with the one and only stefaniesanders‌. Yes, she had me create my own mock-up for a new Community home page (Community Home - Submi...

Brief Wednesday Thoughts

It's pretty late here at the Spy Headquarters...and chow time will come early in the morning. But before I do anything else, I wanted to do a brief brain dump from today. I plan on more detailed blog...

Thoughts on #canvasintel17

It's no agency secret - I think the Canvas Intel Exchange‌ is pretty awesome. When I was approached by "The"  @kona ‌ to help organize the event, I jumped at the opportunity. I'm not sure w...

Will iOS 11 Screen Recording Help Education?

I have to admit - I am a bit of an Apple junkie/fanboy. In a past life, I was lead on mobile initiatives for a private university of 9,000 students, so I had test devices where I would install beta b...

New Icons in Beta Global Navigation Menu

Is anyone else experiencing new icons in Beta if you are using custom javascript to add additional links to your global navigation menu? There's a chance we missed something in the release notes, but...

Reaching Everyone in their Education

I was recently browsing the internet for random quotes or facts to put put on the backside of some personal business cards. I found interesting information such as "76% of MOOC attendees are male." (...

Why InstructureCon?

I have been working in Higher Ed for about 13 years or so (most of it in Instructional Technology of some sort). I have been fortunate enough to go to many, many conferences over the years. I have sp...

Error in Inbox

Hello, friends. I've got an item in my inbox that is hanging: And I get this error message at the same time: It didn't kick me out, I can still navigate out of the Inbox, but I c...

A Parent's Perspective on Mobile Initiatives

I have been working in Higher Education for twelve or thirteen years now. I can remember using a VCR to record videoconferencing sessions, and now we have SaaS technologies for remote learners around...

Change Link Names to Reflect Tool Names

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas There have been a lot of minor updates to standardize terminology in Canvas (especially updating “wiki pages” to “pages”) but one place ...

Help With Custom Menu Icons and Script

Hello, community. I am hoping you can provide me with some assistance as I pose these series of questions. Thanks so much! First, a little background... We utilize some code (I believe gene...

Help with some SCORM?

Hello, all. I am needing to test out SCORM for our campuses and see how best we can support our faculty and students. Because I am not a designer, I don't really have access to the "real" authorin...

"Integration" with Bb Collaborate Ultra Mobile

Hello, all! I know this may not affect a lot of you, but I wanted to pass along this information anyways. With the release of Bb Collaborate Ultra, Bb has decided to no longer have a standalone Colla...