Tackling AI with Socratic Seminar
In the past few years, educators have continually been challenged ...
Tackling AI with Socratic Seminar
In the past few years, educators have continually been challenged with the great distractors to education. First, COVID-19 and now Artificial Intelligence (AI). While we have overcome many of the setbacks and COVID-19 has become a part of the norm, AI feels like it presents a different set of challenges. One way to address these ...
Lateral Reading and Critical Thinking A Digital Learning Experience Feature
In August our Ed Tech Digital Learning Experience kicked off for the 2023-2024 school year with more emphasis on teacher choice. One choice available to all of our high schools and several middle schools is the Explore topic which emphasizes facilitating meaningful discussion and inviting intellectual curiosity in digital spaces. At Liberty High School, Lora Gillingham ...
Canvas New Quizzes, Export with Images
New Quizzes are continually being updated by Canvas and one of the known quirks that is currently happening is that when copying New Quizzes to another course, the images or media files are not being included. Canvas has recommended that users use the export and import feature to maintain the integrity of the images and ...
2023-2024 BTS Starts October 3 & 4
All sessions are on Zoom. Access the link here (you will be asked to sign into ISD Canvas)
Canvas, New Quizzes Updates
New Quizzes in Canvas go through waves of updates and the newest ones have hit this September. Some of them are very exciting and we want to make sure to highlight them here. Setting option - Build on last attempt When you are enabling the option for multiple attempts, you can now choose "Enable build ...
Canvas Student Tip – Submitting Handwritten Work Online
As teachers, we love the online submission assignment type since it will automatically assign missing and late statuses. But, we often assign work to our students that includes written work. For example, showing work in math, annotating a map in social studies, creating a storyboard in English, or labeling an image in science. We might ...
23-24 ISD STEM Explorations Canvas Course
Interested in STEM hours for your certificate renewal? During the 23-24 school year, ISD is offering an asynchronous STEM Canvas course that can be completed at your own pace outside of contract time. Registration will be through Frontline PD and will be detailed in the course information in Canvas. You can enroll now in the ...
Turnitin – New Process for Canvas Integration
For schools that have opted in to using Turnitin and have purchased the access, there is a new way to create assignments using Turnitin within the Canvas system. Please see video and screenshots below for a step by step process. There are two ways to utilize Turnitin with Canvas, both options listed below. Option 1 ...
Welcome Back (Secondary Tech Edition)
At Bits & Pieces we are excited to start another year supporting all of your educational technology needs. To help you navigate both The BNP and the bigger waters of educational technology, we’ve put together this handy guide to all things Bits and Pieces Using Bits & Pieces If this is your first time to ...
Canvas Enhanced Gradebook Filters
Beginning August 19, Canvas is enforcing the Enhanced Gradebook Filters. This was previously a Feature Option that a teacher could choose to enable in their course. There are several benefits to using the enhanced filters, but they will have a slightly different workflow than the classic gradebook filters. There are several highlights in this article ...