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Whee, I found a way to make an embedded YouTube video start and stop where I'd like it to. (1) Embed as usual, (2) make sure it works, (3) then go into the HTML editor by clicking </> at screen bottom. (4) Add the following immediately after the question mark that ends the video identifier: start=272&end=525; Use YOUR…
New Year, New Canvas Three Resolutions to Improve Your Canvas Courses What’s Included in This Post? • Accessibility • UDL • Collaboration As a high school teacher and adjunct professor, I had always tweaked my Canvas courses at the start of each semester. After completing the initial build, it was always fun to infuse my…
We are a a K12 District. On occasion we have a unique situation where a student needs an extension to complete the year’s coursework. In our district, an extension to complete after the school year ends must be requested by the school’s Director of Counseling and approved by the Office of Academics. If approved, the Canvas…
Region 4 and Canvas In 2019, Region 4 adopted Canvas as its LMS, shifting from the use of Storyline/Rise 360. SMEs still have access to these tools but there has been an organizational push for Canvas to become the platform in which professional development is created for our school districts and charters. Enter me as ID!…
GenAI: Your Ultimate Teaching Assistant! Leveraging GenAI for Efficiency and Productivity What’s Included in This Post? • Timesaving ideas using GenAI • Sample prompts During my 28 years of high school teaching, I always had students who became my go to classroom assistants. It was always the trustworthy kid who had the…
Out school has a preferred stylesheet for colours, fonts and sizes. I have tried to stick with this throughout but also made use of primary and secondary colour schemes. Outer Navigation Menu StandardOn Mouse OverSelected Inner Navigation Menu StandardOn Mouse OverSelected Modules TitlesText Header Canvas FeaturesExternal…
Great news for our Canvas Field Admins who have other Instructure products within your institution! We’re excited to inform you that you can now seamlessly manage your support needs for both Canvas and Elevate products right from the Canvas Field Admin console. This means you have the ability to view your existing Canvas…
Purpose This tool was created to allow an instructor to see all of the details for all of the assignments in a course in one place. I had several possible uses in mind when I created this tool.* It's the beginning of the semester, and I've just finished setting up the Canvas sites for my courses. Before I publish them, I…
One of the coolest parts of my job is working with the variety of institutions utilizing Canvas in such unique and different ways. A feature that comes up frequently in conversations is the recommendation of using the Groups feature. I like to call it the "hidden gem" inside of Canvas because it can be used in the…
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: This is a homemade solution and is not Instructure supported The syllabus is a pretty important part of any course, right? Well, I've come up with a nifty solution using the Canvas API and Python to make it easy to download the Syllabus page of a Canvas course as a PDF. It's not only handy for keeping…