Category: Canvas

Creating a Reflective Space in Canvas

March 1, 2023 by Shane Lanning (they/them)

Learn how to set up a dynamic reflective space for your learners through the creative use of built-in Canvas tools. Reflection has been a huge part of my learning, and I engage my students in some of that deep thought in my courses. I value reflection because it provides learners and instructors with the opportunity […]

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New in Canvas: Make Quick Buttons with Icon Maker

December 7, 2022 by Eva Grouling Snider

Learn how to use a new Canvas design feature to create quick buttons or icons for common course items, such as Syllabus and Grades. Want to quickly and easily make buttons to help your students navigate your course? With the new Icon Maker in Canvas, you can have buttons like these up and running in […]

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New in Canvas: Organize Your Grades with Enhanced Gradebook Filters

November 2, 2022 by Eva Grouling Snider

Frustrated by your Canvas Gradebook? This new feature can help you organize your grades to see exactly what you need to see when you need to see it. Frequent, low-stakes, formative assessments are good teaching practices in all classes, online and in-person. Assessments such as activities, weekly quizzes, peer reviews, scaffolded assignments, reflections, and group […]

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Toward Mobile-First Teaching Practices

October 3, 2022 by Eva Grouling Snider

Explore how the web design practice of “Mobile First” can be applied to course design to create mobile-friendly courses. Before we start, a quick warning. I’m going to assume that you value creating a good learning environment for all your students. Your students are using smartphones all the time, and that includes interacting with your […]

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Using Canvas to Help Students Manage Their Work

October 3, 2022 by Eva Grouling Snider

Help students manage the course workload in your class with Canvas features by reducing the need for reminders and making important steps more visible. The demands on university students are extraordinarily high. Our students manage demanding course workloads, high-grade expectations, and career readiness tasks in the classroom. Yet, the expectations do not stop there. Students […]

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Saving Your Students Money with Open Educational Resources

September 26, 2022 by Dan Jones

Learn how the author adapted an Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook for a course, including the unexpected benefits he discovered. When you get the news from your department that a course you teach is switching textbooks, the first question that likely pops into your head is “Why?” If the answer is that the new textbook […]

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