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In Observance of Juneteenth, 2022 - Phone Support Unavailable

  June 19th, or Juneteenth, is an important day in American history. That day in 1865 commemorated the ending of slavery across the United States. While significant steps forward have been mad...

05-18-2022

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Organizing the Accessibility Group

It occurs to me as I look at this group that it might benefit from more organization in the group forum.  Currently there are 110 topics in the forum that get displayed in no particular order.&n...

02-22-2021

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*****Scholarship Opportunity for Canvas Certified Educator Program*****

For about as long as I can remember, people have been asking for a Canvas professional certification program. Instructure recently launched the Canvas Certified Educator Program, and the first cohort...

10-30-2020

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Instructure Store Launch!

tl;dr: Instructure now has a store where you can buy swag: https://www.instructure.com/store Hello Everyone,  This news isn't exactly Community related but we are pretty excited about i...

10-15-2020

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Canvascon Community Building Table Topics

Going to Canvascon has always been a highlight of my summer, at least since I went to the first conference back in 2011 that was held up at Snowbird, outside of Salt Lake.  I haven't missed one ...

10-05-2020

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Community Migration Incident Details (8/6/2020)

With the recent migration of the Canvas Community to a new platform, Instructure encountered three issues that impacted community members (highlighted below).  On August 6th, the day of migrat...

08-20-2020

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The day is here! It’s time for us to pack up and move!

Image Credit Canvas Community is migrating to a new platform.  Here are the important dates and times you’ll want to note.   In the short time we’re offline, you will be able to ac...

08-03-2020

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Community Feedback and Communication

As we began thinking about a move from our current community platform to Khoros—soon to be the home of the Canvas Community—we saw an opportunity to realign our current goals and strategies in c...

07-22-2020

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Community Migration Update and FAQ, July 7th

As we get closer to launching the next community platform we are ready to begin sharing more specific information than we felt ready to share in New Community Almost Here, which we posted on June 22n...

07-07-2020

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New Community Almost Here

Tl;dr - Canvas Community will move to a new platform in July   If you read Canvas Community is Moving (Going Places) posted this past April, you know that the Canvas Community will soon swit...

06-12-2020

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Free for Teacher Gets An Update

Three months ago I posted Free for Teacher Feature Options, where I described how feature options, or flags, are used in Canvas to allow institutions when to release certain changes to their own...

04-08-2020

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Where do you find course content?

Earlier today, Phil Hill said in a blog post that as teachers respond to mass school closures the initial phase we are seeing is a lot of people wanting to move from synchronous face to face educatio...

03-20-2020

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Canvas Status Page Gets Updated

Tl;dr status.instructure.com now includes a link to a per-instance historical status update.   The Canvas status page lives at status.instructure.com and tells Canvas users if all systems ar...

03-10-2020

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Free for Teacher Feature Options

For those of you who are not LMS administrators, you may not be familiar with the concept of feature options in cloud software.  One of the advantages of cloud software is that it is easier to k...

01-07-2020

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Instructure Enters Into a Definitive Agreement to be Acquired by Thoma Bravo

This morning Instructure announced an agreement to be acquired by private equity firm Thomas Bravo.  You can read the press release here: Instructure Enters Into a Definitive Agreement to be A...

12-04-2019

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Instructure Community Now A Half Million Members

It can be difficult to pinpoint exactly when a community coalesces but since at least 2011 people have been interacting with Instructure and helping each other with Canvas in online forums and messag...

09-03-2019

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Trouble in Free for Teacher...

Tl;dr Some people are abusing public courses and we need to stop that. One of my favorite things about Canvas, when I discovered it back in 2011, was and is Free-for-Teacher (FFT went live back in...

08-06-2019

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Hack Night; What is on your list?

Hi All, Once again Hack Night will be happening Wednesday night from 8 - 11 PM, this time in the Grand Ballroom.  As in years past we'll have plenty of tables for people to gather around to t...

06-17-2019

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What does Community mean to me?

  What does COMMUNITY mean to you? For me; Community means moving from a transactional state of mind to a relational state.  By this I mean moving beyond a world view where all motivati...

03-22-2019

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Canvas Community Updates Update

Over the past few years you may have received "Canvas Community Newsletter" emails from time to time, containing links to top trending community content such as feature ideas and blog posts.  Th...

01-07-2019

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