Canvas PDF Workaround
Last year we did a post on pesky PDFs and how to work with them in Teams. Now it is time to consider how to use them best in Canvas. There are several approaches you might consider. Let's explore a couple in detail. Using a PDF and Canvas's Doc Viewer Canvas Doc Viewer is that ...
Scheduling Appointments in Canvas Calendar
Our teachers have been busy unraveling the Canvas conundrum. There are so many features, it can be overwhelming. It is wonderful that we can share those insights here. This post is brought to you by Cayley Byrne and Melissa Miller from Issaquah Middle School. They have clarified how you can use Appointment Groups in Canvas ...
ISTE Empowered Learner: Student Learning in Action
The ISTE standards are perhaps more important now than ever as we are all diving into the technology world of education. This year, your Building Tech Series will highlight an ISTE standard each month and we are kicking off with Empowered Learner. Empowered Learner sets a goal for “Students [to] leverage technology to take an ...
Canvas Learning Mastery Paths
Differentiation in Canvas is not as easy as we hoped. We can easily adjust due dates, but what is the best way of offering differentiated content? One way is through Learning Mastery Paths. Erin Kwok at Pacific Cascade Middle School has taken the initiative in understanding more about this feature in Canvas and its connection ...
Canvas Quizzes: Extra Time and Tries
As we are learning more about Canvas each week, from use and from collaboration and chatting with our fellow teachers, we would like to highlight some of those learnings. A special thank you to Kristie Bennett at Skyline High School for her contribution to the BNP this week and sharing her insights to quizzes and ...
Canvas Gradebook – Understanding the Color Coding
Canvas has color-coding to help you know when an assignment is late, excused, dropped, resubmitted or missing. The colors are very light pastels that can be difficult to read. Well, keep reading on how you can change the colors to be more bold and to help identify the categories based on your color preferences. First, ...
Canvas Gradebook Highlights
The gradebook in Canvas might present a new conundrum as you are now getting graded work and figuring out how this gets back to Skyward. Here are some helpful hints in navigating the Canvas gradebook and managing the sync to SIS. Initial Setup When first getting accustomed to your Canvas Gradebook, you have a few ...
Troubleshooting Tips for working with Students
"Help! It's not working!" is something you are likely hearing on a daily basis from your students as they try to navigate this online remote learning environment. It is to be expected. They are often relying on you to be the expert as the classroom teacher, but this is a new teaching environment and we ...
Turnitin and Canvas
Turnitin offers a direct integration in Canvas. What this means for you as a teacher is that you can create an external tool assignment and still have access to the Turnitin features and submission portal...all within Canvas. How this works for your students, they will open the assignment and have access to the Turnitin submission ...
Canvas Group Sets for Assignments
Canvas allows the creation of Group Sets for a variety of purposes...one being group work. But in the greater scheme of assigning work to your students, you can also assign by group sets...what does this mean? When you create an assignment, you then check it as a group assignment (grade individually), this then allows you ...