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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Actively Learn Transition to Free Version
As ISD transitions from the Prime version of Actively Learn to the Free version, we'd like to offer support and tips on how to be prepared and to make sure that you have access to the content you need from the district library or shared content. We have created a general guide, which is included ...