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Turnitin is back to deliver our latest teaching resources and product updates for making the teaching process both quicker and easier. Below you may also find the webinars and user summit conducted by our team in collaboration with educational technologists and instructors. eBooks Below there are some eBooks prepared by…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbU4SnsV82E Tabs can be a useful way to organize the content on your Canvas pages, and with a little tinkering you can customize the font size, color, family, and the background colors of the tabs. Add a little flair while keeping your page content clutter-free. Read more about tabs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL0ADfEaCKg Using CSS box-shadow properties, you can add sleek drop shadows and interesting effects to your images in your Canvas course. Note: to utilize this feature you will either need access to your institution’s Theme Editor, or you will need to work with an admin who can work with the…
Things to NOT do in Canvas There is plenty of content on what to do in Canvas -- how to do this and how to do that. But sometimes we Check or Uncheck an option or setting in Canvas, or turn something On or Off, not knowing what it is or what it does -- and then something doesn’t work. In the few years I’ve supported the…
When teachers begin using Canvas, at least in my district, they mention how big Canvas is and that sometimes they get wrapped up in the many features of Canvas. To help with this I decided to create a series of infographics for my teachers that focused on one feature of canvas at a time. Below are the infographics that I…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyZhXxoZqto Tables are inherently boring, but you can learn how to easily apply some amazing styling with just a little bit of coding. Dress up your tables in your Canvas courses and become the envy of your colleagues. With just a little code, tables that lack pizzazz can come to life. Read…
Congratulations on making it to the end of what has likely been one of the most challenging years in education! As the CSM team begins to get questions from Canvas Admin about what they need to be doing to prepare for the end of the year, we decided to put together resources and answers to our most commonly asked questions…
Designing and delivering assessments is an important part of student learning and teaching efficacy. In any environment, but especially in online learning, academic integrity is key to an accurate assessment of student knowledge. When developing your own remote assessments here are a few of the most important elements…
If you are creating Zoom meetings for your faculty using the Zoom API and are interested in having those meetings import into the Canvas Zoom integration, you'll need to locate the context id for each course. Zoom architected their Zoom Meeting upload tool with the context id instead of with the canvas course id. The…