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Brightening Classrooms with Confetti: Teacher Appreciation Week Canvas Templates Free Canvas templates to celebrate teachers!This Teacher Appreciation Day, we're turning everyday achievements into celebrations with a burst of confetti! Inspired by Canvas LMS's introduction of confetti for on-time student submissions in…
Purpose This tool was created to allow you to extract the data Canvas has on discussions in a class into a spreadsheet to allow analysis of the data to explore students' participation and engagement with discussions in a course. Exploring this data could identify ways to improve discussions in future courses. This tool…
In the dynamic landscape of education, the concept of personalized learning has gained significant traction. It recognizes that each learner has unique strengths, weaknesses, and preferences, and advocates for tailoring instruction to meet individual needs. One powerful tool for implementing personalized learning is a…
There are many articles in the Community that demonstrate how to create a digital Escape Room or Treasure Hunt or Scavenger Trail using a Canvas Module and the Requirements feature. When I create my Treasure Hunts or Escape Rooms, I usually use Canvas pages and embed a puzzle feature on to the page from a (usually free)…
As an administrator of Canvas LMS, you'll be thrilled to hear about the latest offering from Instructure: Canvas Archiving. This innovative solution, developed in partnership with K16 Solutions, empowers you to seamlessly archive course content and student data directly within Canvas. With this feature, you can safeguard…
In many ways, 2024 is the year of “assessment”. Assessment is everywhere, from AI upending the traditional paper-pencil test to institutions needing to find new ways to be more efficient with their resources. Over the course of the year, we will be sharing a series of whitepapers focused on the many facets of the…
Facilitating Employee Onboarding Best Practices, Features, & Products to Take Onboarding in Canvas to the Next Level One of the best things I love about Canvas is the journey it has gone on and where it is today. What started as a Learning Management System to help higher education institutions has now evolved into spaces…
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…