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GideonWilliams
Gideon Williams
Rank:
Community Coach
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Mr
Joined:
May 15, 2015 7:07:39 AM
Posts:
891
Solutions:
15
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3748
Bio:
Teacher and Learning technologist, often with greying beard. EdTech Likes: VLEs (Canvas since 2015), Web2 tools, ePortfolios, Digital Badges and Interactive resources. Life Likes: Woolly hats. Dogs. Cycling. Cooking. Watching all sports. Inspired to teach by Peter Billinghurst. @gideonwilliams for Twitter (X) conversations - Now working in the APAC region - but heart always in Scotland

Most Liked Posts

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS Parts of this have been mentioned in previous requests (Modules within Modules and others) and I wonder if this is more to do with the needs o...
Likes: 389
This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas This idea is applicable to any 2-in-1 / hybrid device with stylus capacity eg Chromebook, Surface Pro 4, Yoga, ASUS etc.Microsoft's recent educ...
Likes: 267
This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas   This is an awesome FREE online quiz and interactive content generator that includes over 30+ different content types.   I have blogged about...
Likes: 149
I would like to see FOUR features for Phase 2 of the integration, namely:   Ability to embed content directly from Office365 in the RCE  The feature appear in Canvas Google Integration and the lack of...
Likes: 60
As an ex-Moodle user I still keep in touch with developments on the 'other' platform. I recently stumbled across a post in my Twitter stream that looked intriguing:I am always very interested ...
Likes: 60

Most Recent Posts

Hi @Renee_Carney This sounds very exciting and I hope it provides an even louder voice for K12. Always happy to test out anything...
Jul 17, 2025 11:30 AM
Thanks @KristinL , much appreciated as always. The posts are mostly always written with passion - Canvas is such a great product and I want it to be even better so that our students can get the mo...
Jul 17, 2025 11:29 AM
That's really kind of you to say Lyndsey. It seems to have worked quite well and at least given staff a better idea as to how to develop their courses. It would be nice to move it off of Excel ont...
Jul 17, 2025 05:23 AM
A celebration of sort. Not my birthday (that's way past) but my 50th post on the Canvas Community. I thought I would treat it like a birthday and give a list of the gifts I would like Canvas to ge...
Jul 03, 2025 04:43 AM
Last week I was asked if I could make a 5 minute video presentation on how I created an interactive learning tool on Canva. Well, its not 5 minutes but about 8 and a half - sorry! In the video I go th...
Jun 29, 2025 02:20 AM

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10 Years with Instructure Community

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