Teaching and Learning

Obsidian: A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files.

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.

How can you work with students as subject-matter experts where they demonstrate competency through an end-of-course assessment?

This comprehensive guide offers a road map to make sure your classroom interactions and course design reach all students, not just some of them.

Advocates ask teachers to cede authority to students. But what if you are a faculty member of color or an adjunct without much acknowledged authority to share?

Karl Marx wrote a short summary of every book he read and many scholars and successful people refer to note taking as the secret of their su...

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?

New materials can leave kids in the fog. Here are five metacognitive questions they can use to find their way and become more independent learners.

How can we ensure every student has an opportunity to access, participate in, and collaborate with each other online?

Easy to follow ADA Sign Requirements Guide. 50% of ADA sign designs are NOT compliant...don't be one of them! Free 50+ page download.

For high-stakes student presentations, find out how you can use the LASER Blueprint methodology as a professional guide.

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...

HyperDocs are a way to give high school students easy access to everything they need for the week in one place.

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.

#Ungrading folks, do you use any formative tests?— Karen Costa (@karenraycosta) May 25, 2021