Use equation editor for math facts?

I'm making really simple questions with numerical answers for learning math facts... but I'll be going further...  Should I be using an equation editor for accessibility even at this level? &...

Quizzes, quizzes...

My attempt to make a little "you grew up and never learned your math facts?"  course ...  I dream of being able to have a practice deck -- two from this group, three from that group, two...

Re-entry pains

Summer's Almost Over!  So!   I promised myself 5 hours this week on the "facts modules" ...  And bam!  Brick wall.  Seven minutes to figure out how to edit my module since...

Links and thinking ahead...

In my mind and heart, "accessibility" is a lot more than fulfilling legal requirements and captioning.   I want to make learning accessible, not just information or "content."   These guide...

At least I can post about it!

I've put Canvas on a back burner since March since we got the okay to develop a basic Math course in our LMS, D2L.   (It was chosen over Canvas because our institution needed multiple-correct-an...

Generate random # in (non-arithmetic) question?

 I'm making a quiz that asks "is this a digit or not?"   -- yes or no.  Anyway, I'd love to be able to say "stick a random number from 0 to 9" in here. Can Canvas do that in the mid...

Newbies, shoaling

When a bicyclist approaches a traffic light and passes the cars to sneak up to the front, it's called "shoaling."   Canvas Community has turned its "gamification" over and I had enough points t...

It's a community thing ;)

So here I am in my tutoring lab, and our Dean in charge of Things Tech and Learning Support comes in ...  with none other than  @kona  with a swag bag.  I've got student...

WHat's the status of things?

I'm taking BlendKit2017 on Canvas ... and hoping to use some of the stuff I'm playing with here, there (tho' it's with my "parkland college" identity b/c I know I'll still have a job for the next fiv...

I've embedded!

  I found iFraming in Canvas    and used it to embed a game from the NCTM illuminations math exercises into my little course. I'll also provide a link so that students can go ther...

How can I put alt tag in image when I upload it to Canvas?

I've uploaded images to Canvas which I will be using many ties.  Canvas puts a default alt tag in as the file name, which I have to change. Is there a way to upload the image with the alt tag...

Exploring Question Banks

  I'm trying to make a module for learning the addition facts.  I work with grownups who discreetly are still counting (either on their fingers or in their heads) or using calculators for e...

I hit publish...

Back when this "service learning" course I'm wrapping up was active (it ended 12/6, but we can finalize our submissions and submit 'til 12/31) I tried to let another person peek at the Canvas course ...

How do I put a question in a bank?

I made some quiz questions, and then discovered "question banks" when I realized you can't duplicate questions (it'snot getting a lot of votes, either, in the "voting" section...   ) So, I f...

Working on first quiz!

Easily found the nice How do I create a quiz with a question group to randomize quiz questions?    and I like that the "alt tag" is right there on the front to prompt me to write what ...

Why are our emails displayed to public?

Why are our emails visible as our identifier to the entire un-logged-in world, but get masked for people who are logged in?  

Figuration release from CAST

Got this on my twitter feed the other day Release v1.3.1 · cast-org/figuration · GitHub    which clued me into this article about it http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/cast-figu...

Our emails displayed: why?

Why are our  email addresses  displayed to the entire not-logged-in world instead of our display names?   

Adaptive quizzes?

    On www.mathisfun.com there's a set of pages for "training" including this one for addition: Math Trainer - Addition   .   It's programmed so that if a person mi...

Beginning again :)

I've got two Canvas accounts -- one associated with the college where I work and then the Free for Teachers that I've gotten through "Instructional Design Service Course:  Gain Experience for ...