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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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Last years courses for my instructors don't show up
Last years classes for my teachers do not show up now. On the admin side I see them but I can't figure out why the instructors can't access them and it's a lot of teachers not just one. Ideas?
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Beta testing?
I'm sure, like many computer products, you guys will be doing Beta testing once you get to that stage in the process. When you do, what is the process for volunteering to do that?
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Mass Delete Non-SIS Courses
I am wanting to do some cleanup in our environment and delete some old Sandbox courses of staff that has left the district. Rather than doing this 1 course at a time, I found a post that mentioned to assign a course_id to those non-sis courses, then change the status to deleted and reimport the file. I ran a provisioning…
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Templates vs Blueprints
Hello, I come to the community seeking your input. We are a small, rural K12 district and have been using templates for our secondary courses for three years now. It's starting to get messy. I love the consistency it creates for our homepages and it allows us to create spaces that are accessibility-friendly. The challenge…
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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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Gradebook sorting options
A teacher of ours requested the ability to sort a gradebook by section. She likes to filter to all sections, but wishes she could sort the resulting list by section (All of period 1 students, then all of period 2 below that, etc.). Unfortunately, that option doesn't exist. Could it be added?
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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.…