Top 5 student tips for improving your Canvas site (that will take you less than 10 minutes)
Canvas is allowing us to be more effective and creative in using graphics, layout design, templates, and many other aspects of what constitutes good…
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Open Canvas Sites – 2018 edition
As the University started to explore Canvas in semester 2, 2017, almost 100 unit coordinators designed their sites in Canvas for the first time,…
Demystifying Sections and Groups in Canvas
Some common myths are still flying around campus about Sections and Groups in Canvas, what to use them for, and how best to manage…
EdTool Tips #13: Using Arc for student video submissions in Canvas
Arc is the new video hosting platform we are using in Canvas.As is typical with the EdTool Tips series, we wanted to go through…
EdTool Tips #12: Canvas, Echo360, and Your Lecture Recordings
With Semester 1 sites built, and the Canvas Transition Project going live as we speak, it is a good time to provide an update…
‘I know that this is what you want me to learn’: More Tips for Friendly Canvas Courses
Over the past fortnight, the FASS Teaching and Technology Innovation Team ran two feedback workshops with a dozen students testing new Canvas sites for…
EdTool Tips #10: Canvas inaugURL Short Guide to Linking Content
One of the best improvements in building content in Canvas, as compared to Blackboard, is the ability to quickly and easily link to other…
Enhancing your Canvas designs: Using flexboxes, pad boxes and Feedwind to enhance your Canvas sites
Over the past few months, I have used the University’s new learning management system, Canvas, to build several sites. These include an OLE, a…
Inclusive Culture in Our Teaching: Universal Design in Canvas Event
Providing high quality education is a matter of social justice, and ‘Universal Design for Learning’ (UDL) is an innovative framework that supports all learners…
(Don’t) Make Me Think
During the year2000, in the height of the dot-com bubble, Steve Krug’sslim and conversationalbookDon’t Make Me Thinkburst onto the scene.Neither the first nor the…