Category: Announcements
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 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. ...
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 ...
Seesaw’s Elementary Summer Resources
The end of the school year will be here before we know it, and you may be getting questions about student access to online resources over the summer. Clever and all connected apps will be available to students until August 3rd, when rostering begins for the next year. Seesaw has put together a great ...
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 ...
Book Creator: Universal Design for Learning
As part of Universal Design for Learning, we want to highlight the many ways that students can engage with reading and writing. After all, reading also includes text, audio, images, and video (not just printed text) and we want students to have exposure interacting with all of these digital tools. For students where writing is ...
New K-2 Lessons from Common Sense Education!
Common Sense Education just launched new K-2 lessons on digital citizenship! Each of these lessons introduces one of the digital citizenship characters (head, heart, arms, guts, legs, and feet) with a short, engaging video-based lesson and reflection activity. The 15-minute lessons are a perfect way to integrate these important concepts into your classroom in a ...
LockDown Browser is Back
Good news for those of you looking for a way to securely quiz your students using Canvas. ISD is bringing LockDown Browser back. This tool allows teachers to create a quiz in Canvas that will keep the students in the quiz, and prevent them from opening other windows or apps on the computer while taking ...
Digital Citizenship Week: Coming Soon!
October 17-21 is Digital Citizenship Week! As Common Sense Education reminds us, digital life is real life because our world is connected. This year, the focus of Digital Citizenship Week is on promoting digital well-being. Just as we support social and emotional learning in face-to-face situations, it is equally important that students are equipped with ...