Category: Tool Bits
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 ...
Canvas – Setting Course Default Time
We are creating a series of posts as a part of the "All the Canvas tips you never knew you needed!" We will share a weekly tip until we run out of them. If you have ideas you would like to share, please feel free to pass them to your Ed Tech Lead or Tech ...
Canvas Grading Periods for HS Semesters
Grading periods are back! We explored using them when our secondary courses were yearlong in the 2020-2021 school year, but we have brought them back to our high school semesters in the form of quarter grading periods. Why did we do this? One of the questions that arose often this past year was how a ...
Clever Cleanup for the 2022-2023 School Year (Plus a New Feature!)
As we begin a new school year, everyone is busy setting up classrooms and preparing for students – and this includes the digital space of our classroom! In Issaquah, we use Clever at the elementary level to function as a teacher web presence, a place to curate resources, and a single sign-on. This post will ...
Actively Learn, Revisiting a Favorite
It has been a while since we have updated you about Actively Learn, but this comprehensive reading tool allows for such distinctive features that it needs to be revisited. If you have not used Actively Learn recently, I urge you to pop in and check out their recent additions such as an updated Lexile search, ...
How To Handle the Semester Transition
Whether it is starting a new school year, or attempting to straddle the transition from one trimester to a new one, there are important administrative and curricular things to consider and pay attention to when starting up a new term. With our switch to Canvas, and the move to a separate course for each term, ...
Canvas Gradebook Improvements Jan 2022
They are listening! That is what I have to say about the Canvas Instructure team. This month there are two significant changes in the Gradebook that many teachers will want to send kudos their way. Gradebook Split Name Columns First, teachers can now view their gradebook with student names separated into First and Last name ...
Canvas Import Improvements
During term transitions, you will likely use the import (or copy-to) feature. You might use this regularly to move content from your sandbox to your course. Canvas has updated the import and copy-to feature to include a warning when you are duplicating content. Here is what to look for: The warning is a wonderful addition ...
Canvas Quizzes for Retakes and Test Corrections
There are a few places Canvas poses challenges to some of the practices we utilize in our class, some of these revolving around the use of quizzes and how to best implement test retakes and test corrections. We have some suggestions on making this easier for you to manage. Quiz Banks for Retakes To make ...
Canvas Quiz Logs & Data Analysis
Canvas quiz logs was recently enabled and offers an insightful look at how students are interacting with quizzes that you are giving in your course. Canvas has designed the quiz log to help identify problems that may arise during a quiz and help you have a more meaningful look at your quiz data. As they ...