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Reusing and Sharing Content Canvas Monthly Webinar: October 2022

REUSING AND SHARING CONTENT IN CANVAS Resources for Admin Sharing Options: Course TemplatingHow do I enable a course as a course template? How do I select a course template in an account? BlueprintsLessons Learned from a Year with Blueprint Courses (Learn from Peers)Tips for Designing and...

Surveys are possible in New Quizzes, although you may need some tweaking. There is an article here (FAQ: New Quizzes) mentioning that surveys do not exist in New Quizzes. However, this is not logically correct, since it's possible to create assessments without point values. Let's first look at the c...

Introduction to the problem When you open the Canvas mobile apps, they keep you logged in, even if you put the app to the background or close it completely. This behavior adds convenience for the users and is typically what we expect from a mobile application in 2022. But many times convenience come...

I'm sure over 90% of people know some of these tricks but I always like to share stuff just in case someone doesn't know some ways to get things back in Canvas. Recovering things in a course As a former Blackabord admin I always got that cold feeling in my stomach when someone would call me to tell...

When instructors make a new quiz by clicking the +Quiz button on the Quizzes page, a window will appear prompting instructors to select either Classic Quizzes or New Quizzes.

I'm loving being able to use div tags instead of tables, but when I resize the page the items overlap. How can I prevent this? Here is my code: div style="float: left; width: 50%;" table style="height: 156px; border-style: solid; width: 322px;" border="1" width="330" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="...

Tabs are useful for organizing the content of a page within Canvas to reduce scrolling. This guide will show you how to input the Tabs HTML code into pages, add more tabs, and editing your content within each tab.

How do I delete the test student?

TL;DR Blueprints are a powerful tool that can be used for pushing content from one course into one or more other courses. They give you the option of locking individual pieces of content in the blueprint course to restrict editing capability for that content in other courses. They are great for dist...

Before you can evaluate group work, you will need to create a group assignment. Students can submit Google documents, pages, and other group work as an assignment. Open SpeedGrader Open SpeedGrader from the group assignment. View Group Submissions When evaluating group assignments, the SpeedGr...

You can create a group assignment by using the Group Assignment checkbox. Canvas uses group sets to assign group assignments, and each group within the group set that is assigned to the assignment is required to complete the assignment. When creating or editing a group assignment, you can assign an ...

In our Instructor Guide, you will find everything you need to know to use Canvas as a teacher, from creating assignments to managing course settings.

You can import prior content from Moodle exports into Canvas. Note: Moodle Lessons are not supported by Canvas import. Open Settings In Course Navigation, click the Settings link. Import Content into Course Click the Import Course Content link. Select Content Type In the Content Type drop-d...

The learning management system (LMS) can be a vibrant hub of digital classroom activity as long as it is simple and navigable.

Canvas allows you to manually bulk create users, accounts, terms, courses, sections, enrollments, and logins through the Admin interface. This document references the SIS Import CSV Format API page, where the majority of the CSV information is located. Each CSV file is symbiotic with another and tel...

Moodle Import Process Navigate to your Course Administration block. Click Question Bank > Import Note: If you do not have a course block for Administration, you may be able to find this under t...

Instructure is committed to consistently improving the Canvas user experience. The cloud-based platform maintains an agile production cycle with bug fixes, enhancements, and new features in three Canvas environments: beta, production, and test. All Canvas environments are also available on any mobi...

How will the learning management system (LMS) change? The Future Trends Forum explored this key ed tech topic with Dan Goldsmith, CEO of Instructure, maker of the Canvas LMS. https://www.instructure.com/ https://www.instructure.com/canvas/

Instructure, the parent company of learning management system Canvas, is introducing a new credential for educators who wish to demonstrate their mastery of the platform. The Canvas Certified Educator Program was announced at the CanvasCon conference Wednesday. It is an online certification with two tracks -- one for K-12 and one for higher education. “Canvas Certified Educator is a direct response to requests from our customers the past few years,” said Melissa Loble, chief customer experience officer at Instructure, in a press release. “They want to have a deeper knowledge of the platform...

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If you are an admin, you can act as instructors in the Student app and take any action in the app as if they were the student. Only account-level users with the Act as users account permission can act as other users. This permission does not apply to sub-account admins. Note: When masquerading as a ...