Posts relating to Canvas.
New Analytics has a lot of new interesting features that let you track what your students have or have not been doing in a course. We’ve already written about messaging… Continue reading "Message Students from Canvas by Course Activity"
If you are like me, you are using Announcements in Canvas frequently to keep students up to date on important information. They’re great because students are notified whenever one is… Continue reading "Add Canvas Course Announcements to your Home Page"
The Canvas course menu is a powerful tool at your disposal for helping students navigate. You have the ability to customize which options are visible to students, which is helpful… Continue reading "Customize Your Canvas Course Menu"
The Canvas gradebook allows you to create quick email lists of students who don’t complete an assignment or score below a certain threshold. You can do the same but at… Continue reading "Message Students by Overall Course Grade in Canvas"
Now, more than ever, it’s important that we encourage executive functioning in our students. Thankfully, Canvas has a number of features that can help facilitate these skills. For many people, a… Continue reading "Using Canvas Modules as Checklists for Students"
There are many ways to share information with students through Canvas. One strategy that is easy and seamless is to allow students to annotate over documents in Canvas. This allows… Continue reading "Edit PDFs in Canvas Assignments"
This is an extension on our last post about Canvas features you’re (probably) not using yet. It’s so good that it needed it’s own post this time around. Did you… Continue reading "Canvas Bonus Tip: Save Frequent Comments"
It’s okay though. That’s why we’re here. Canvas is so full of functionality, it’s easy to miss some of the more helpful options and tools. In this post, we have… Continue reading "Five Features in Canvas You’re (Probably) Not Using Yet"
It’s cold outside, but Canvas has some 🔥🔥 updates this month that we wanted to briefly outline. The updates this month provide two new tools that you can try out… Continue reading "January Canvas Updates"
The Canvas SpeedGrader works well in general, but it can take a lot of clicks to get a score into the books. We’ve added some customizations to the SpeedGrader that… Continue reading "Speedy SpeedGrader"
Mastery Paths is a tool in Canvas which automatically assigns tasks to students based on previous work. This allows for quick differentiation and helps meet and close student gaps by… Continue reading "Managing Mastery Paths"
A simple improvement you can make to your Canvas courses is to add a header image to your home page. It makes the course more inviting and helps it stand… Continue reading "Create a Class Header for Canvas"