Canva AI Elements Better Than Ever
Canva Droptober showcased several exciting new releases and updates to ...
M365 CoPilot Dashboard
You probably noticed a rather big change to your Office dashboard recently. This is part of a new push by Microsoft to put CoPilot (their AI tool) at the center of the Office Experience. While this change was a bit jarring, there is a lot of good stuff here. Read below to learn about the ...
Create Canvas Quizzes Using AI
AI tools like ChatGPT and Khanmigo's Multiple Choice Generator can be big time savers, helping you create objective quiz questions quickly. Combined with Canvas' import features, you can roll out your next assessment in a snap. Read below to find out out how to turn AI generated questions (or questions you generate) into a Canvas ...
Canvas Enhanced Rubrics
Canvas Enhanced Rubrics are available in your course as a feature preview. Turning on this feature will provide you early-access to some of the updated rubrics features including importing rubrics, more control when building a rubric from scratch, and some updated usage features in Speedgrader. To turn it on, go to your course, open settings, ...
Canva AI Elements Better Than Ever
Canva Droptober showcased several exciting new releases and updates to some of their AI elements including Dream Lab (Magic Media), Magic Write, and the addition of some new ones like captions for videos, and AI summary for whiteboards. Dream Lab Dream Lab provides more extensive text-to-image creation and is only available to teachers. It is ...
Groups In Classroom
Let's face it, there is a lot going on and a lot to keep track of when your students are on their laptops and you are trying to monitor them through an active session in Securly Classroom (not to mention actually trying to teach.) One way to help bring a little order to things and ...
Securly Classroom – Understanding Plan Options
As we continue the transition from DyKnow to Securly Classroom, it is important to start to understand the difference between Blocking and Allow plans (DyKnow terminology) and Site Lock/Weblinks Collections (Securly Classroom terminology). Securly Classroom was built around the idea of limiting students the places on the web you want them to go whereas DyKnow ...
Securly Classroom Era Begins
Securly Classroom is ISD's new classroom computer management system that allows teachers to monitor, interact with students, control web access and offers some powerful instructional tools such as screen share and screen lock. It replaces DyKnow and we think key new features will make it a tool that supports engaging instruction when using student laptops. ...
UDL – 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 ...
UDL 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 ...