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What You Wish You Knew As a New Canvas Admin Gathering Ideas for Canvas Certified Admin What’s Included in This Post? • We're building Canvas Certified Admin (yay!) • We want to hear what your advice to new admins is • We have a few ways you can share your ideas Are you a Canvas Admin? Have you helped to roll out a small…
Typography is an important aspect of our web interfaces and helps us express creativity and meaning when we are communicating our content to our students. The fonts we choose can help us deliver our messages, and they can even evoke reactions from our readers. An especially important aspect of typography and fonts in…
Turn the Page on Your Canvas Course Tips, strategies, and best practices for closing the semester (or end-of-year) What’s Included in This Post? • Tips and strategies for end-of-year processes • Pro-tips from the ID team Every course we teach tells its own story; some are filled with admiration and successes, while others…
CSS borders are really fun and a great way to easily enhance your Canvas pictures. The reality is that you can put a border around anything - a paragraph, a , a picture or video, a heading, and so on. But we'll focus on pictures. CSS borders allow you to specify the style (e.g. a straight line, dotted, dashed, etc.), a…
Teacher Appreciation Giveaway Canvas’s Instructional Design Team Sticks With You! What’s Included in This Post? • Puns for Days • How to Use Stickers in a Canvas • FREE Stickers for Your Canvas Course Happy Teacher Appreciation Day! Our ID team is made up of 16 former educators, and we know how much it means to be…
2022 Learning Services Teacher Appreciation Giveaway Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! We are so excited to celebrate you this week! Each day, Instructure’s Learning Services team will shower you with our gratitude for all that you do! What’s Happening This Week?Check out this incredible graphic to learn more about the…
I constantly get questions like "one of my faculty members cannot access or see this part of Canvas. Why is that?", and many times it comes down to the user's Permissions and Roles. In this month's Dear Danielle video, I take a look at how to evaluate and set up different Roles and Permissions to ensure users are accessing…
The Dos and Don’ts of Icon Maker What’s Included in This Post? • ID Best Practices for the New Icon Maker • Do and Don’t Examples for the new Icon Maker @Laurie_Norris and I are so excited to share the newest feature coming to your Rich Content Editor (RCE)-- the Icon Maker! Since this amazing feature launched this…
An issue many instructors run into when transitioning to Canvas is “how do I differentiate instructions and due dates within Canvas?”. In this month's Dear Danielle video, I dive into how to accommodate students’ various learning needs by setting up differentiated due dates and instructions within Assignments, Discussions,…
One of the most common questions I get is “how do I use these new question types within New Quizzes?”, and now, you have the answer in the latest Dear Danielle video! In this video, I take a look at how to build out the new question types and common use cases. New Quizzes Question Type Just as a reminder: these videos are…