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An additional Free-for-Teacher access window
In May, we opened a short, secure window to log in to Free-for-Teacher and export your course content. We’re doing that one final time to give more of you access to the content you need. Another window to access your content. We're opening Free-for-Teacher again, in the same secure, limited way, from 12 am ET on July 28…
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Updated Acceptable Use Policy and Canvas Free-for-Teacher
Hello, Canvas Free-for-Teacher users! First, many congratulations on getting through this most challenging school year! We hope that your Canvas Free-for-Teacher use has helped connect your courses and classrooms and that your instruction and learning were made easier using our free tools. But most of all, we hope that you…
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Exploring Google Classroom as an alternative to Canvas FFT
During this two-day window I am looking for things I can do to carry on the continuity of working with students. While I expect to continue using FFT when it returns, I also know what it is like to need something right now. I have a little bit of experience with Google Classroom (mostly through being a parent of a child…
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A temporary change to Community access for Free for Teacher users
We want to give you a heads-up about access to the Canvas Community during the Free for Teacher open window (12 am ET on May 28 through 11:59 pm ET on May 29). During the open window, Free for Teacher users will have read-only access to the Community. You can still browse discussions, search past threads, and read every…
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Free-for-Teacher Platform Restoration
To our Free-for-Teacher users, The Canvas Free-for-Teacher program is a product offering we have had since the beginning of our company. It is a program intended for individual educators at traditional schools and higher education organizations. We want to apologize for how disruptive the last few weeks have been due to…
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Free For Teacher Next Steps Coming May 26th
As you know, we recently took Canvas Free-for-Teacher offline in response to the security incident. We will provide next steps and action plans here in the community Tuesday, May 26th regarding Free-for-Teacher access.
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How Do I Use Commons In Free For Teacher?
Did you know that Free for Teacher provides all educators with access to an AWESOME resource called Canvas Commons? Canvas Commons is a digital library within Canvas LMS that allows educators to find, share and import content into their courses! This allows educators to save hours of time from creating course content, and…
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How Do I Delete A Free For Teacher Canvas Account?
Deleting Free for Teacher Canvas Accounts If you decide that you are no longer in need of your Canvas account under the canvas.instrucuture.com or k12.instructure.com Canvas instance, you can request to delete your account. Users are not able to delete their own accounts, and must fill out a support ticket for this process…
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Canvas Free-for-Teacher FAQ
Welcome to the Canvas Free-for-Teacher User Group! We're glad you're here and that you want to try Canvas using a Free-for-Teacher (FFT) account. What features are available in FFT accounts? Free-for-Teacher accounts contain most of the basic options available in Canvas environments. Some functionality is only available to…
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Do You Need a Free Classroom?
Canvas created Free-for-Teacher accounts for anyone who wants to teach online—for free. Free-for-Teacher accounts offer all the standard features to help you in your educational pursuits using both synchronous and asynchronous tools. To get started, you’ll need a Canvas account. Canvas accounts are always free! Visit our…
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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 instances of Canvas. Free for Teacher, although used by many many people around the world, is effectively just a "normal"…
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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 keep it up to date than when software is installed on many localized servers or computers. Rather than having big updates that go…
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Hidden Gems: K-12 Free For Teacher
One of the things I am wondering: Is there a K-12 edition of Free For Teachers? There is! Go online to https://k12.canvaslms.com and try it out! Course Feature Options Comparison Enforced feature options are marked with Yes/No. Options with toggles are marked with Available. Any items not listed in the feature options are…
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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 2010). For anyone not familiar, FFT is a fully-featured production instance of Canvas where anyone in the world may request to…
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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 from the other... now let's scramble them! Do it again Looking for "mindful mastery" as opposed to "mindless rote..." and recognizing that…