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We're excited to highlight recent enhancements to the Canvas LMS "Assign-To" functionality! Instructors can now assign entire modules, pages, and ungraded discussions to specific sections or individual students, expanding on existing capabilities for assignments, graded discussions, and quizzes. We've also added shortcuts…
Hello fellow Admins, recently my school had a serious issue with random enrollments in crosslisted sections simply not not enrolling as expected I created a community post about it here. Users were active and correct in our enrollments file and courses were crosslisted normally, it was a complete mystery. We had a rough…
LTIs/External Apps may include a placement setting to appear on the course navigation menu. For various reasons, admins may not want the the app to automatically show by default in the course navigation menu. For example, the tool may be in a pilot phase with only select courses and/or only needed in select courses, so…
Whether you are a new or veteran admin, the beginning of a new term is an incredibly busy time. It's also a pivotal time for properly configuring many of your ed tech systems. In an effort to support admin across the Instructure ecosystem, we coordinated a series of webinars sharing Back to School Best Practices in July…
Introduction Canvas LMS is an incredibly versatile platform designed to support teachers in creating dynamic and organized online courses. If you're new to Canvas or simply looking to refine your skills, these five tips will help you maximize your use of the system and enhance your students' learning experience. Tip 1:…
Rubrics have needed a lot of love and attention for a really long time. I've been using Canvas for 12 years and I've written several Canvancements that enhanced the functionality of rubrics, so I feel like I know something about them. * My rubric importer allows you to copy/paste a rubric from a spreadsheet and create a…
What Are Modules? Authors: @DonLourcey (Dedicated Instructional Designer), @LoraMiller (Dedicated Instructional Designer), @SamOHanlon (Dedicated Instructional Designer) If we had to choose one Canvas feature we could not do without, it would be Modules. Using modules to organize content creates consistent flow and layout,…
Smart Search is a feature in development that brings new efficiency into searching Canvas course content. Using semantic algorithms and AI, users can enter a search query and results will be returned based on the context of the search. Watch the video below to learn more about the upcoming feature, its benefits and use…
At Instructure, we make products to enrich, support, and connect every aspect of teaching and learning. In your experience with Canvas, you or your colleagues may have seen an announcement in Canvas with an invitation to participate in a survey. If you followed the link, you were asked to answer the following question:…
Elevating Student Success Through Metacognition Leveraging Canvas Tools to Foster Reflection, Self-Assessment, and Feedback in the Classroom As a science teacher thrust into teaching language arts during the pandemic, I struggled to engage my students and help them use the writing process to compose texts. What I was doing…