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Roll; it's your turn. Game Night 2018!
Two of my favorite things: Instructurecon and boardgames. When I was a kid, my cousins from New Hampshire came down to Massachusetts for Thanksgiving and would stay over at my parents’ house with us for the long weekend to hang out with me and my brother. We’d stay up all night eating leftovers and playing board games.…
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Creating Secure Single Page LTI Tools With Vue and AWS
Jacob Collins Single-page applications combined with microservices have many advantages of traditional server-side applications. Benefits include drastically cheaper hosting and almost limitless scalability. Keeping these applications secure has always been a problem for academic integrity. Using AWS Lambda and VueJS we…
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The #stepsforbeth journey
Day 22 in the #stepsforbeth journey and I just got another update from Panda! Panda just crossed the Green River and is 179 miles into the trek! Tammy Ellison made quick work of passing Panda yesterday, but I heard they had a nice chat alongside the road! Here's a selfie Panda took while crossing the Green River! We're…
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Canvas 2.0—Leveraging BluePrints to Support Instruction
Nicole Klues DCPS leveraged Canvas to launch the Cornerstone initiative, providing teachers access to rigorous lesson plans and professional development resources and creating a one-stop shop to access all curriculum resources. We've taken Canvas to the next level, leveraging BluePrints to support classroom instruction.…
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Lessons Learned From a Year with Blueprint Courses
Linda J. Lee Blueprint offers the potential to save significant time in site setup, while ensuring consistency across courses. But when is it the best choice? We'll share lessons learned from Whartons Blueprint pilot, including successful use cases, instructional design considerations, and strategies to avoid problems with…
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Blueprints: Built to Amaze
Joe Allen Blueprints don't just copy courses; they can turn your team into rockstars with how quickly and agilely they can deploy content, templates, LTIs, default course settings, or anything in between. You can easily work with just a handful of courses, or thousands at one time. See examples and learn techniques that…
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Energize Your Class With Student-Centered Course Design
@kona Want to create the greatest student-centered course on earth? Come experience how to energize a course through increased teacher presence, better utilization of Canvas features, and creative uses of the different assignment types. Leave with the information needed to make students feel more connected and motivated…
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Embedding Content in Canvas, or: How I Learned to Stop Being Bland and Make My Content Amazing
snufer In this session we will explore various edtech platforms and walk through the process of making our Canvas content awesome by embedding materials onto content pages. Learn how to dress up your courses by adding flair through meaningful interactivity and multimedia. (view in My Videos)
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Video & The Modern Classroom - Using Arc to spark student engagement
Peter Quaeck | Instructure We live in the Digital Age where video permeates our lives. It entertains us, we communicate with it and most importantly we LEARN with it! And while video is a critical part of any curriculum, the question often becomes; how can we use video to enhance the learning experience? Come see how Arc…
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Canvas Mobile Apps, Not Just for Students Anymore
@rseilham Let's explore a day in the life with Canvas Mobile apps which includes a real-world experience by students and teachers while on-the-go. This session will help teachers and designers better understand mobile use, optimize course content, communicate effectively, and create an awesome learning experience,…