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Make MORE Memories at InstructureCon 2023 with Pre-Con!
Make MORE Memories at InstructureCon 2023 Pre-Con being held Wednesday Morning What’s Included in This Post? • Why You Should Attend • What's Being Offered at Pre-Con This Year • Wednesday Sessions Pre-Conference workshops offer users a deep dive into a range of topics presented by learning, strategy, and design experts…
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simulating/replicating Blackboard "template variables" in Canvas
Our institution is just completing a migration from Blackboard to Canvas. While Canvas appears to offer some very useful capabilities for our purposes, there may be some features of Blackboard that we miss somewhat. Among these are the "template variables" that could be utilized to embed user or course information into the…
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Upcoming Conferences!
Conferences, 'Cons, Virtuals, PDs, Instructional Days, Bootcamps, Fireside Chats. Whatever you call them, they fill us with ideas, knowledge, and a burning desire to get back into action and put what we have learned into practice. Often we leave and our wheels are spinning faster than the day or conference itself. But how…
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See You at Educause 2022
We are excited to see you at Educause this year! Now more than ever, educators and administrators like you are eager for insights on what’s next for higher education. And where that conversation is happening, Instructure will be there. Leading up to our Educause presence, we released our third year-over-year global…
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Resources from Instructure’s Instructional Design Team
Resources from Instructure’s Instructional Design Team There are so many resources out there for Canvas best practices and it can be so overwhelming to sift through it all! We thought we would simplify your search by organizing our top tips, blog posts, and resources to best support your needs! Explore the resources below…
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Accessible Presentations: Digital and Live
Introduction Canvas works to maintain accessibility, ensuring that menus and navigation are available to every student. After that, it is up to the instructors to create accessible content. You can begin by making the text you put inside description boxes accessible using the rich content editor. In this article we go a…
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Canvas Certified Educator Turns 1 - Celebrate with Us!
It started with an idea to provide high-quality professional learning experiences to our Canvas Family. After many years developing, writing, and testing the content, we were ready to launch the big idea this time last year. The Canvas Certified Educator program - six courses, tailored for K12 and HE - began on Monday,…
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Shareability vs Data Collection for Non-Classroom Courses in Higher Ed
Shareability vs Data Collection Considerations for Non-Classroom Courses What's Included? · Use cases for non-Classroom Canvas Courses · Recommendations for public Canvas courses used as websites · Recommendations for Canvas courses used for professional learning · Considerations for public-facing Canvas courses as it…
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University of Maryland, College Park's Faculty Tutorial site
Here is the tutorial: https://umd.instructure.com/courses/1253803 Enjoy!
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What are Good Captions?
CBS-RLT Tech Tip Banner With online course delivery booming in this unusual time, many instructors are learning to make videos to personalize the content for their courses. But with video content comes the need to make the content accessible to everyone. There are lots of reasons why you need to do this now, but the most…
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Everything you can do with Assignments
It has been amazing to experience the effort faculty have been putting into their classes in this time of social distancing in 2020. I've seen many instructors go above and beyond simply transferring their face-to-face course activities to the online space; they are stretching their teaching and implementing teaching…
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Save Time as You Teach Online
These are some of the strategies I use to help maximize time for meaningful student contact. (first mentioned in Saving time teaching online ) The goal is to spend your time and creative presence on teaching. The more you can front-load your courses for student success, the more meaningful connections you make with…
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ClicK-12 Free Webinar Series from FIU Online
ClicK-12 (free) Webinar series powered by FIU Online Simple Ways to Digitize Your Classroom Article by Monica Smith The live virtual workshops are part of the FIU Online Community Learning portfolio, which stems out of FIU’s belief that lifelong learning should be available to everyone. This series, provided at no cost,…
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Design Challenge: Capturing the Essence and Ethics of Critical Topics
In creating a course called Intro to Pharmacy Technician, I was privileged to work with the Department Chair who was also the subject matter expert (SME), and the chief instructor. My SME was doubtful this PHAR course could ever be taught online. Furthermore, she wasn't sure it was even a good idea to try. After all, she…
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Remote-itis: Digesting the Strengths and Missed Opportunities of Online Ed
Caution My comments may sound critical of teachers, so I want to clarify that I am a higher ed instructor and this the community I strive to serve. I am also an instructional designer, user testing professional, and an unusually experienced student spanning decades of schooling. I've seen higher ed education trends from…