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Tell Us Why You Love Canvas Certified Educator (#CCELovesYouBack)
This Valentine's Day, celebrate with Canvas Certified Educator! Tell us why you love Canvas Certified Educator & you'll get a chance to receive this pin: We have 50 of these pins to give out to folks who create a Valentine to the Canvas Certified Educator program and share it here, or other places on social media. If…
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Scrolling Quizzes Made Easy
Quick Start * Make sure you have the Tampermonkey Chrome extension installed and activated. * Download and install the scroll_quiz.js file from my github. Longer Explanation I have been using Canvas a long time and in several of my classes, I have quizzes (or more accurately "exams") that have dozens of questions, many…
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ThingLink & Instructure Announce Partnership Bringing Interactive Learning Experiences to CCE
Instructure and ThingLink are delighted to announce that they are working together to offer educators easily managed, and accessible, interactive learning experiences. The partnership will initially offer educators a new engaging way to become Certified in using Canvas, the leading platform globally for managing learning.…
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Overflowing Buckets
I’m in the middle of my 12th year of teaching in a classroom, and there are days I feel are more challenging than some I experienced early in my career. I know I’m not alone. This year is downright difficult some days, and even after 20-months of teaching during a pandemic, we’re constantly addressing unknowns and feeling…
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Shareability vs Data Collection for Non-Classroom Courses
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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The Top 7 Apps, Tools and Plug-ins for Canvas LMS
These apps, plug-ins and tools all integrate directly into Canvas LMS and once activated can only enhance your experience as an educator to make you more valuable to your students… while saving you valuable time along the way. How much do these apps cost? Many of these apps are totally free, and all of them offer at least…
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Set Default Due Time(s) using a Script
Hello, fellow Canvas people, I've successfully developed a user script that allows you to set a default due date time in the Canvas assignment due date input field. Essentially, it adds a button right beneath the input field where you use a different "date picker" menu and it adds the time you set within the script. If you…
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Canvas STUDIO Goodness
I just joined Eddie Small (@smallindiana) and Marcus Painter (@edtechmarcus) in a CanvasLive session where I had the privilege of sharing my thoughts about Canvas Studio and how powerful Studio is for teaching and learning. As a district, we have not yet purchased Studio, but if I have my way (enter maniacal laugh), we…
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Create "hand-drawn" text illustrations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq_a_Edw0vg Let’s explore an easy way to use PowerPoint to create custom illustrated text effects for your Canvas course. I believe that any amount of personalization a course has a lot of value because education is really about the relationships that are formed in the classroom. Any measure…
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New Analytics
Have you used the New Analytic feature? Wow! What a great way to pull averaged data on any activity, assignment or assessment! Find it here at the bottom of your course nav Once opened, a variety of information can be accessed very easily! You'll see an overall course average of all graded materials since the start of the…
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Grade Passback with Infinite Campus
Here’s a few tips to consider: Title each task with a unique name consisting of 50 or less characters. Grade passback integrates with assignments, quizzes, and discussions. Infinite Campus rosters MUST be used in some capacity for grade passback to sync. Step 1 - Preparing Tasks to Sync Once you assignment is ready for…
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The Virus and school
I am so overwhelmed as I had the Virus from January 9, to the February 4. that what was my doctors note says.Gratefully I found a Doctor to help me. But I was so exhausted, and felt so "foggy headed" for lack of a better term. I am 50 and go to Brigham Young University Idaho and I know if I drop out now will never go back.…
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Class on Mathematics Growth Mindset for online educators
I loved the first course I took on Growth Mindset; however, I am an online educator of tenth graders who are not required to attend livelessons. I work to inspire them to attend, I can reach them through either a message board or a Padlet, webmail, text message, or phone. I put together a weekly newsletter that not only…
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External Tools in Assignments
Our districts provide a wealth of tech tools and programs but they all don't work together. Luckily, Canvas incorporates a multitude of features including the external tool feature. Recently, I found out that you can create an assignment that can be accessed and turned in through Canvas but comes from a separate website or…
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Using the Hot Spot Quiz Feature
I am guessing that some of you were probably reluctant to use the newer quiz features. I felt like it looked too different and would take too much time to set up. I'm not saying that I'm wrong, but it just takes a good leap of faith one day to see how amazing these new features are. I am going to focus on the "Hot Spot"…