Teaching and Learning

Three approaches for making connections in the online classroom, so students know you care and are ready to learn.

The IDEA Instruments are designed to provide feedback you can use—formative feedback that gives you suggestions for improvement—as well as summative feedback that can be used as a component of a mo...

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...

One day in your early school years, a teacher probably told you to “take notes” for the first time. Looking around at your fellow classmates, this seemed to involve writing down what the teacher said, word for word, on lined pieces of paper. For most of us, this is how our experience of note-taking started: ... Read more

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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 ...

Introduces the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) international standard, including WCAG 2.0 and WCAG 2.1. WCAG documents explain how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities.

Learn how to use Canvas Studio, to curate media for your institution and deliver engaging content to your students.

Digital learning is a type of learning that allow students to grasp concept more quickly to connect theory & application more adeptly to engage in learning.

Due to the covid-19 crisis, I have been getting more inquiries about trauma-informed teaching in higher education. So I created this presentation to provide ...

Not being able to see students face-to-face can create a huge challenge to educators who are teaching with a trauma informed lens. However, some of those in-person best practices can help inform what teachers do while distance learning.

Keeping school and personal life separate, always a struggle for teachers, is even more difficult when they’re both in the same place.

Hundreds of teachers, many of them operating in countries where teach-from-home has been in place for weeks, weigh in on the mental approach you need to stay grounded in this difficult time.

Choosing the right tech tools for your teaching means making strategic choices, weighing costs against payoffs, and staying laser-focused on your course goals — and that is what this guide aims to help you do.

Here's a quick overview of using Badgr in Canvas to automatically award badges based on module completion requirements.

Canvas is the LMS that makes teaching and learning easier. Flipgrid is the video discussion platform that makes teaching and learning more personal, fun, and engaging. Integrate the two platforms s...

Several years ago, I worked on a project to create an e-learning course for a customer relationship management platform, and we had to populate the “sandbox” system with fake names. Doesn’t seem too hard, right? Well, not for the first 25 to 50 names, but I was amazed at how quickly my

UDL Rising Designing for Equity slides at bit.ly/udlrising-intro

What is active learning? Specific techniques range from quick-and-simple interventions to semester-long redesigns of course structure and delivery. The most ...