Jul 28, 2025
Leveraging Technology Effectively: Part 5
How can you navigate inevitable changes to learning technologies in higher education? How do you integrate Leveraging Technology across a program?
Apr 13, 2025
Expand your Teaching Toolkit with Canvas Commons
Canvas Commons offers diverse, customizable resources to enhance instructional strategies and align with learning outcomes.
Mar 4, 2025
Shuffling Questions and Answer Options in Canvas Quizzes
Enhance the security of digital assessments in Canvas with these tips.
Mar 4, 2025
Randomizing Canvas Quizzes Using Item Banks
In Canvas quizzes you can have quiz questions selected randomly from a larger bank of questions. There are several benefits to this approach and a few things to carefully consider.
Mar 4, 2025
Understanding Canvas Quiz Logs
The primary purpose of quiz logs is to assist in investigating any issues students may encounter during their quizzes. They capture various actions and timestamps throughout the quiz attempt.
Mar 4, 2025
Digital Exam Disruptions: Providing More Time or Attempts in Canvas
There will be instances where students or Canvas will experience internet connection issues. When this issue impacts a student’s ability to finish the exam, you can provide more time or attempts.
Feb 28, 2025
Creating Multiple Choice Questions that Assess Higher Order Thinking
Make the most of your multiple-choice questions by moving beyond assessing understanding to analysis, evaluation, and beyond.
Jul 5, 2024
Writing Mathematical Expressions in Canvas Using LaTeX
Canvas offers tools for teachers in math and science to create accessible, properly displayed equations; learning LaTeX can further enhance your course's efficiency.
Jun 14, 2023
Canvas New Quizzes: Frequently Asked Questions
If you are creating a quiz in Canvas, we recommend you use the New Quizzes engine instead of Classic Quizzes. Got questions? Take a look through this FAQ.
Jun 14, 2023
Canvas New Quizzes – Adding Accommodations
If you need to provide students with quiz accommodations, it's important to know that adding accommodations in New Quizzes looks quite different than Classic Quizzes.
Jun 1, 2023
Differences between Canvas Classic and New Quizzes
Summary of the differences between New Quizzes (now available in Canvas) and Classic Quizzes.
Jun 1, 2023
8 Reasons to Be Excited About Canvas New Quizzes
Canvas has a new quiz engine. Here are 8 reasons why you might be excited about making the move to New Quizzes!
Sep 19, 2022
Creating Efficiencies: Grading Discussions in Canvas
Strategies to assist you and your students to have a better experience using Canvas Discussions for learning.
Jun 28, 2022
Flexible Assessment Weighting: Offering Students Choice
Letting students choose how their assessments are weighted can reduce stress, boost engagement, and build self-reflection — making your course more flexible and inclusive!
Jun 1, 2022
Using Poll Everywhere in an Asynchronous Online Course
Learn more about using Poll Everywhere in your asynchronous online courses, including instructions for how to embed the activity into a Canvas page.
Jun 1, 2022
Administering Written Exams via Canvas
Canvas can be used for replicating a “take-home” style of exam in a digital setting. Learn when to use this approach, and how to set it up for a smooth launch at exam time.
Nov 18, 2021
Collaboration technical tools
Tips for how to have students work together using technology.
Nov 8, 2021
Hidden Gem: Canvas Chat
Using the Canvas Chat, a powerful tool and a hidden gem for those who have not yet made use of its capabilities.
Sep 29, 2021
Effective Feedback in Online Courses
A look at three broad approaches to providing feedback in an online course, and learn about Canvas tools that can support you with effective feedback.
Sep 21, 2021
Using Zoom meetings in Canvas
Learn how to set up Zoom in Canvas and use some of the features of this software
Aug 31, 2021
Canvas Tip: Reset Groups After a Course Copy
If you use the Groups tool in Canvas, there is a quirk of the Course Import function that you should know about. Learn how to fix this and reset your Groups as needed each term.
Aug 4, 2021
Keep recording when you present content
The shift to remote instruction during the pandemic proved that there is value to recording your lectures. This article dives into why this practice still holds value and how to do it.
Apr 23, 2021
Online Course Beginning-of-Term Checklist
This handy checklist should cover the essentials to get your next online course ready for a new term, and offers some helpful links and tips for completing these tasks in Canvas.
Mar 11, 2021
Canvas Integrations Bring New Opportunities For Student Projects
Canvas has options for students to access tools and software with a single sign-on. Learn more about how that works in this article.
Mar 5, 2021
Creating and Sharing H5P Activity Without a Website
H5P is a free and open source collection of tools you can use to create interactive content that can be embedded into Canvas, WordPress, and Pressbooks. This post explores an alternative method if required.
Mar 5, 2021
Creating and Sharing H5P Activities from WordPress and Pressbooks
H5P can be used for creating engaging learning content that can be embedded into Canvas, WordPress, and Pressbooks.
Mar 5, 2021
Hidden Gems – H5P
H5P is a free and open source collection of tools you can use to create interactive content.
Feb 10, 2021
How Students Interact With Your Online Course Predicts Their Success
Understanding how students engage with online materials can help you predict student success.
Feb 1, 2021
Create Groups for Collaborative Learning Spaces in Canvas
How to create and use Groups on Canvas to encourage collaboration, social connections, and active learning.
Nov 8, 2020
How Canvas Supports Learner-Centred Assessment
Explore using Canvas to integrate the Learning Technology Ecosystem Principles. In this one, we look at the "Inclusive of learning-centred assessment" principle.
Nov 8, 2020
How Canvas Tools Can Enable Connection
Using Canvas to help create authentic connections through asynchronous and synchronous activities such as discussions and live collaborations.
Nov 5, 2020
Managing and Facilitating Discussions in Canvas
Once you’ve settled on the why and how of discussions in your course and have set up the initial discussion and guidelines for posting, let students know your plan for how you will be moderating the posts.
Oct 9, 2020
Posting Feedback and Grades in Canvas
Learn how to post grades and feedback for students in Canvas.
Oct 8, 2020
The Canvas Inbox
A two-way messaging tool used to communicate with a course, a group, or an individual user in a course.
Oct 6, 2020
Understanding Timer, Availability, and Accommodation Settings for Canvas Classic Quizzes
Tips and help for Classic Quizzes in Canvas
Oct 1, 2020
How Does Canvas Make Learning Accessible?
Using Canvas' built in Accessibility Checker to ensure fair assessments for all students
Sep 23, 2020
What Does a Well-Designed Canvas Course Look Like?
Designing a new course in Canvas? This article will help you create a well-designed course and avoid making mistakes.
Sep 22, 2020
Utilizing Peer Feedback in Canvas
Encouraging students to do peer-reviews on Canvas for higher quality work.
Jul 8, 2020
7 Tips for Setting up Group Projects in Canvas
The Groups tool in Canvas is very flexible, but can be a bit confusing. Here are some best practices and helpful tips to use Groups in some of the most commonly applicable ways.