Discover how Admin Analytics can transform the way your institution utilizes Canvas. Dive into the data, unveil hidden insights, and chart a course for enhanced engagement and success. Explore the possibilities with our guide on leveraging Admin Analytics to maximize Canvas adoption and drive student engagement. Don't let your Canvas data go to waste!

Check out our Principal's Playbook tips and tricks. From streamlining tasks and fostering effective communication to promoting transparency within your educational community, these six practical tips will empower you to be a catalyst for positive change. Join us as we explore the key areas of efficiency, communication, and transparency, and share your own experiences in the comments to inspire others on their Canvas journey. 

Discover the game-changing power of global announcements in Canvas. From important updates to moments of celebration, learn how this efficient, centralized, and transparent communication tool empowers school communities.

This blog will show leaders that Canvas does not just have to be a classroom tool but a way to communicate effectively, save you time, and model best practices for your faculty and staff. Leaders can capitalize on Canvas to create a “Hub” to better interact with all stakeholders. 

Attention school administrators! Are you looking to model effective high-tech leadership and enhance your school's technology usage? Look no further than Canvas Learning Management System. With a Principal's Corner hub, you can streamline communication, promote transparency, and provide easy access to resources for faculty and staff. Collaborate efficiently using Discussions, Assignments, and Gradebook. Start enhancing your school community engagement today with Canvas.

Introducing "Lead with Canvas": Empowering Administrators for Educational Excellence. Enhance efficiency, communication, and transparency using Canvas LMS. Stay tuned for practical tips and the ultimate principal's playbook.

As instructional leaders, it is important to take time to understand the available customizations before deciding how to set each permission. Strategically planning the use and customization of your account’s roles and permissions can help your organization increase Canvas usage, provide clearer visibility into what’s happening in your instance of Canvas and improve workflows.

Make Canvas your “one-stop-shop” by streamlining your institution's event communications into one calendar! The tool that instructional leaders have been asking for is now available! 

Create engaging and dynamic PD with Canvas Studio. Studio is your media creation and management tool in Canvas. With a wealth of features, Studio empowers and informs course creators and supports active learning by course participants. 

For many teachers the first experience using Canvas occurred during the pivot to remote learning as Covid-19 forced schools to close. Canvas was seen as a distance learning tool. Now that students and teachers are back in the traditional classroom, some teachers may need coaching and support to see how Canvas can be utilized in the classroom.  

Have you ever stared at a blank screen and thought, “I have no idea what to do?” Have you ever heard students complaining that they can’t find assignments on a teacher’s course? A common struggle for many instructors is creating highly interactive, easy to navigate, and attractive Canvas courses - especially from scratch. Building from a blank Canvas can be difficult. This can result in disorganized courses or disconnected content which overwhelms or confuses students and observers, negatively impacting their learning experience. A helpful solution to these conundrums is to use Canvas Course Templates.

Are you stuck on what types of Professional Learning within Canvas you can offer your faculty and staff? Canvas Analytics can help you figure out pedagogical professional learning opportunities to plan for.

1. Build a Sandbox Course for All Staff 
2. Use Consistent Home Pages
3. Use Modules for Organization
4. Limit Course Navigation and Make it Consistent
5. Check Accessibility Options

A group of experienced consultants from Instructure’s Strategic Services team has identified a need for support for site-based instructional leaders, and recently have come together to collaboratively create an exciting new Community space! As we build our first content offerings, you can look forward to a variety of resources including blog posts about Instructure’s Strategic Services team and what we do to help instructional leaders. We will share our leadership checklists, informational one-pagers, strategy decks, and more. We also plan to engage in discussions and respond to questions that are posted in the space.

This blog is a letter to all of our site-based leaders (principals, assistant principals, instructional leaders).  Educational technology helps teachers continue to educate students. How do leaders successfully adopt Canvas at their local sites for more transparency and communication? Let’s check it out.