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Interactive Choice Boards with Canva & Canvas
Many teachers have been embracing the high-leverage practice of Universal Design for Learning and making student choice a priority. The UDL principle of Engagement encourages individual choice and autonomy and might include choice boards and playlists as a vehicle to provide student choice. In Mrs. Buck’s 6th-grade science class at Maywood, she created a choice ...
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 ...
Canvas Integrations & Apps
As our comfort using Canvas increases, we might be ready to explore some of the integrations available either at the district level or school level. You may want to bookmark this post for future reference as it will give you the ABCs of Canvas apps that are available (district or school) and how best to ...
Canvas Navigation Check
While courses populate with navigation pre-set to the basics, as we start copying courses from previous terms to our newest terms, we are keeping the navigation settings that we have active at that time. As new programs are added to our account in the form of apps they will often automatically appear in the course ...
Canvas Submission Comments
You are likely commenting on student work and they might be writing comments back to you. You can find these comments in several places, but here are some of the ways to ensure that you are being notified of submission comments and how to quickly find them. Setting Notifications First, you might ensure that you ...
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 Comment Library
As a classroom teacher, you are likely using some of the same comments over and over to encourage your students to become better writers, thinkers, problem-solvers, and more. One of the features Canvas Speedgrader offers is the ability to create a comment library. To create your comment library, you can start in Speedgrader. On 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 ...
Canvas Inbox – Include Observers
It’s back! Canvas recently updated the functionality of the Inbox to easily include observers. You may notice a more streamlined messaging format where you can select your course and select students. After adding the student, you can then click the “Include Observers” button and the observers for the student will automatically be added. It is ...
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 ...
