Don’t worry, returning teachers, your old Canvas courses are NOT gone! Find them in Courses > All Courses > Past Enrollments: You can also import content from past courses into a current course you teach by following these instructions.
Elective teachers starting a new section in semester two may want to migrate their course content from their semester one section. Alternatively, they may want to refer back to student work from the semester one class. The video below explains how to do both of these actions.
Thanks to Eric, all parents now have a Canvas account linked to their child(ren). This means that parents receive the same email notifications as students when you create an assigment, leave a comment on an assignment, make an announcement, etc. This adds, at no time to cost to the teacher, another way to keep parents […]
You can make a copy of an assignment in Canvas, but what about a quiz? Thanks to an inquiry from John Brennan, we’ve discovered a workaround to do just that: Go to Settings > Import Course Content Select your course (what we’re doing is importing the quiz from your course into the same course – […]
Great news, everyone! We’ve enabled additional integrations with Canvas. You can now embed YouTube and TedEd videos directly into your assignments by using the Rich Content Editor (look for the downward-facing arrow). Quizlet, Wikipedia and Office 365 have always been options for you, too. For research, Canvas is now connected with our subscription to Britannica Online. […]
On Sept. 13 and 14, Cecilia S, John B, Tim, Maria T, Katrina, Amy L, and Jane took advantage of an NCPA PD session to get up to speed with Canvas. These one-hour sessions scheduled during office hours are a great way of learning practical knowledge to help you within and without the classroom. Here […]
We’re about a month into school, so it’s a good time to see where we are with our technology usage. Office 365 & Canvas Adoption Some good news here! Students are overwhelmingly logging in to Canvas – 88% access it daily, making it the tool you should use if you’re distributing content. Ditto for Office […]