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Category: Canvas

  • Canvas Magic: Restoring Deleted Content
    August 20, 2025 by

    For the inaugural blog in my Canvas Magic series, I introduce faculty to simple ways to restore deleted Canvas content. Recently, I received a call from a stressed faculty member. She was reviewing her course’s content and accidentally deleted all its exams—the same exams she was planning to import into her next iteration of the […]

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  • How I Integrated Panopto into My Canvas Course 
    April 9, 2025 by

    To help instructors utilize Panopto in their own courses, this article details how I integrated Panopto into my online COMM 210 course this spring. What is Panopto?  Available to Ball State faculty and employees, Panopto is a video platform for creating, managing, and sharing video content.   If you are interested in using Panopto as a […]

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  • Three Ways to Monitor Attendance on Canvas 
    February 5, 2025 by

    Attendance policies are standard practice at Ball State. Whether individually created or departmentally assigned, most instructors keep track of their students’ absences. One way to monitor attendance is through Canvas’ Roll Call feature. Roll Call allows instructors to record attendance, while providing a grade based on the number of absences entered, but the tool does […]

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    New in Canvas: Releasing Modules and Pages to Students
    October 2, 2024 by

    Learn how to assign specific Canvas Modules or Pages to students in your Canvas course site. With the new Releasing Modules to Students feature available in Canvas, you can easily assign individual students and sections course material and assessments tailored just for them. Releasing Differentiated Content As a master’s student many years ago, I identified […]

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  • Canvas Mastery Paths

    Canvas Provides a Path to Student Engagement
    May 8, 2024 by

    Learn about Canvas Mastery Paths and how they can help you support student engagement in your courses. Supporting Student Engagement  There are millions of educational tools and software to help you build engagement, but where to begin? I recently Googled “student engagement technology,” and the results were overwhelming. It would take considerable time to determine […]

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    New in Canvas: Discussions Redesign
    May 1, 2024 by ,

    Update (May 13, 2024): The authors of this post presented a virtual workshop entitled Introducing the Canvas Discussions Redesign. You can watch a recording of that workshop here. Learn about the Canvas Discussions Redesign, which brings a new look and new features to Canvas Discussions and Announcements, beginning July 20, 2024. Canvas Discussions and Announcements […]

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  • Late Passes in Canvas: One Approach to Structured Flexibility
    April 10, 2024 by

    Configuring late passes in Canvas can offer students structured flexibility to support them in successfully completing your course. In a recent post, “Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Crisis: Why Balancing Flexibility and Structure in Course Policies Is Important,” Ellen Whitehead and Mellisa Holtzman shared their research about teaching practices adopted by faculty during the pandemic. […]

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