Year: 2024
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 ...
Khanmigo and AI Come to Canvas
AI is everywhere these days, offering lots of promises along with a bevy of questions and anxieties. However, until this month, AI tools were not really accessible inside of Canvas. Now thanks to a partnership with Khan Academy, Khanmigo (Khan Academy's generative AI tool) is available for teachers to use right inside of Canvas. These ...
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. ...
Don’t Flip, Out!
In the sad news that you may have missed over the summer, Microsoft announced that it was closing down Flip (formerly known as Flipgrid). Flip's suite of video tools will only be available through Teams from now on. Flip was a versatile tool that made it easy for students and teachers to create video conversations. ...
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 ...