merge community accounts

hi  who can help merge 2 canvas community accounts.  I am leaving one employer but want to continue with my account in Canvas Community.   Thanks

Feedback notifications

Hi If a student responds to the feedback you give them is the teacher notified of the reply or do they have to check every student individually in case they do reply? thanks

"I" questions

I was working with a teacher recently in a 7-10 school. He said he had changed the way he wrote in Canvas for the students and he felt this had had a big impact on the way the students interacted wit...

Sharing Rubrics

Hi   What is the best way to share rubrics across courses when the same subject is being taught to different classes by different teachers?    I have a school who want to create ...

Using Canvas for teaching Science (K-12)

Thinking about ways we can use Canvas in teaching Science I came up with a few ideas including: Using Simulations - finding online simulations to duplicate or try out dangerous or expensive experim...

Creating Collaborative Communities

Last week I was asked how to create Collaborative communities for students working in an online only classroom.  I brainstormed a few ideas. This is hard to just create!  And 10 time ha...

Lost ability to mute assignments

I am working with a teacher who has discovered that a new feature is to automatically disabled the muting option in Speedgrader for non-submissions or paper based submissions.  This is an import...

Quizzes.next and files

Hi Is it possible to attach a file to a question in quizzes.next? Isobel

Teaching better use of mobiles

I find a tension between students and teachers over mobile devices and their use in High School.  Many students cannot yet regulate their use and are constantly distracted by all the s...

Text annotations not rendering in PDFs

Hi I am having difficulty seeing text (big T) annotations in the pdf you can download from the Docviewer screen in SpeedGrader.  All other annotations appear in the pdf.  Have tried in Chr...

Reading logs, discussions and K-2 classes

Today I worked with some teachers of K-2 students.  They did not want students to have to log on individually and they have about 1:5 ratio so the workload in logon/off management would be ...

Discussions and ePortfolio

Our system has not opened the Parent app yet, so I have been looking for a way to show student work to parents, while staying in the Canvas environment. I have been investigating the idea of using a...

Showcase Student Work

I have been thinking about ways to showcase student work in a Gallery Walk type of experience in Canvas.  I have had several teachers ask about solutions for this. Sway via Office365 - you can ...

Mobile phone use G7-10

A local High School (G7-10) has just banned smart phones from their classrooms, France has done a similar thing across the whole country.  Many  teachers I have spoken to feel this is a goo...

Printing Rubrics

We found a roundabout way to print out rubrics - In the mark-book select a student then select marks from their Activity card.   This brings up a list of all their assignments.  There ...

Social Media, Social Life: Teens Reveal Their Experiences (2018)

Hi These reports from Common Sense Media always make for an interesting read.   - https://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/social-media-social-life-2018.  This is worth a l...

Blackboard Collaborate Whiteboard

Hi Is it possible to see students names when they write on the Blackboard Collaborate LTI whiteboard?  Some students are writing silly things and it would be good to see who they are! (K-12)....

Ideas for K-12 teachers new to Canvas

Hi In my role I am helping roll out Canvas across the state to teachers K-12.  After working with teachers of differing stages of experience with LMS I decided to try and make it easier ...

Is anyone using Immersive reader in Office 365

Just discovered this tool that is accessed via office365 and can be embedded on pages in modules through external tools or in could assignments.  It looks like a great thing to use with struggli...

Rubrics and ePortfolios

Can marked rubrics be placed in the eportfolio with the assignment they relate to?