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Resource Roundup from Instructure New & Next | October 2025 (K-12)
This post summarizes the product updates covered in our Instructure New & Next webinars held on October 15 for our K-12 customers in North America. The webinar covered both features that are available now and features that are coming very soon. This time we organized the updates more clearly by product, based on your…
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Three Pillars of Family Engagement in K-12: Strategies with Canvas LMS
The number one thing parents say drives student success? Relationships. According to our State of Teaching & Learning in K-12 Education study, 91% of parents indicated “a student’s relationship with teachers” as a top factor for their child’s success. Families want to know that when their kids are at school, they're with…
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How K12 Educators Can Foster Distraction-Free Classrooms
In today’s classrooms, our students are navigating a whirlwind of digital notifications, social pressures, and competing demands. That’s why distraction-free learning environments are so powerful! They give students the space to focus, connect, and build the habits that fuel long-term academic success. Creating these…
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Resource Roundup from Instructure New & Next | Q3 2025 (K12)
Thank you for joining us for New and Next – whether in-person at Instructurecon or virtually. This post includes linked resources for the recent product releases covered in our Q3 2025 Instructure New & Next updates, organized by theme. These resources have been created to help you better manage change and understand the…
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The Big 50!
A celebration of sort. Not my birthday (that's way past) but my 50th post on the Canvas Community. I thought I would treat it like a birthday and give a list of the gifts I would like Canvas to get for me going forward.... a list of the things I would love to see in place in the learning platform I have used for 10 years.…
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Creating a Vibe Coded Interaction with Canva - Connect 4
Last week I was asked if I could make a 5 minute video presentation on how I created an interactive learning tool on Canva. Well, its not 5 minutes but about 8 and a half - sorry! In the video I go through how I made a Connect 4 style game for my GCSE (Grade 9/10) Physics class on Energy types. The video includes the…
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Flipping Treasure Hunts
The Idea I am teaching Gravitational Fields to Year 12 Physics. It is our last double lesson of the year, we've finished the topic and I wanted to make a treasure hunt with them as a fun way of reviewing the topic. One aspect of Gravitation Fields topic that is challenging (for everyone concerned) is the idea that…
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Canvas Connections
I am mindful that many quiz based activities we already use are variations of multiple choice type quizzes so, trying to be a different, I asked staff to think about games they had played (perhaps as kids) that came out of a box instead of a screen. We had a few suggestions: * Finding pairs with playing cards * Lotto *…
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One Size Fits Each - Is Vibe Coding the digital technology Nirvana (for educators)?
Many, many years ago, a learning advisor from Canvas told me that when talking digital technology with staff why not begin by asking this question, "What would you like to do better in your classroom but are limited by resources, time, technology or support?" Addressing the issues arising is key if you are going to ensure…
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Hot Off the PL&S Press
At PL&S, we are committed to providing you with the latest tools, insights, and training opportunities to ensure your success. Our new quarterly PL&S Newsletter is here, and it’s packed with valuable updates that you won’t want to miss. What's Inside? * Exciting New Training Offerings * Special Events for Canvas and…
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Canva Code and Canvas - Quite possibly the best thing I've seen since I saw Canvas!
So first things first, if you are a school and have not signed up to Canva and registered for the Canva for Education Schools package then you MUST! As a school, you get all the premium tools for free. You can also direct students to join your Canva instance with their school email. You can appoint multiple administrators…
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Quizzes in Minutes! From Word to Canvas Quiz with a little help from AI and a lot from the "Docx to
If you have not yet tried it, I would heartily recommend @thienhb astonishing Effortless Quiz creation tool - Effortless Quiz Creation: Free Tool by Lawrence S.... - Instructure Community - 629368 It really "does exactly what it says on the tin" (Ref: Ronseal circa 1994) and makes the creation of Canva quizzes from a Word…
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Using AI to Create New Quiz quizzes with QuestionWell
QuestionWell - AI-Powered Teaching Tools | Enhance Educators' Efficiency | QuestionWell is labelled as a "free forever" AI tool. It is the first free AI tool that I have seen that creates multiple choice quizzes that can be exported as QTI files to Canvas New Quizzes. QuestionWell allows access via Google or Microsoft…
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Physics Feud - A vibe coded game in no way related to a certain gameshow
I teach A-Level Physics and one of the papers involves students carrying out two different practical tasks. Whilst the practical tasks vary each year, the marking scheme does not. It is based pretty much on process skills students use. This can be quite challenging for students who are used to examinations being about…
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Vibe Coding and Canvas - Surely its time for Canvas to make some changes to its own coding?
If you are a reader of my more recent blogs, you will know that I have been using AI chatbots to create interactive games, sometime before it became trendy and we called it Vibe Coding! The latest vide coding feature on the block comes from Canva and boy is it an impressive start. Granted you cannot (yet) download the code…
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Resource Roundup from Instructure New & Next | Q2 2025 (K12)
Thank you for attending the Q2 Instructure New & Next Webinar. This post includes linked resources for the recent product releases covered in our Q2 2025 Instructure New & Next webinar for K12, organized by theme. These resources have been created to help you better manage change and understand the impact and benefit of…
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K12 Customer Lifecycle and Annual Success Strategies
At Instructure, we believe that learning never ends! As your Customer Success team, we want to help you stay organized and on track with our newly updated Field Guide for Admins. This guide provides a clear roadmap for managing the Instructure Learning Platform, ensuring that important deadlines and tasks never slip…
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Full STEAM Ahead!
Just a teaser, before I write the post on Tuesday.. Not forgetting, the Biologists, Chemists, Artists, Engineers and Technologists..