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.
Apr 7, 2025
A Guide to Digital Spring Cleaning
A digital spring cleaning can have many environmental, organizational, and psychological benefits. Follow this guide to make your digital life more organized and sustainable!
Apr 1, 2025
GenAI and Sustainability: Being Aware of the Environmental Impact of AI
AI is a powerful tool that we can use to create a better tomorrow, but what are the environmental costs that we are seeing today?
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.
Mar 3, 2025
AI and Authentic Assessments: Preparing Students for an AI-Enabled World
Instructors need to be sure that students are ready for life post-graduation in an AI-enabled world. How can we test both foundational skills and knowledge alongside AI skills and knowledge?
Mar 3, 2025
Designing Assessments that Leverage GenAI
GenAI has made its impact on every field and discipline. To help prepare our students for life post-graduation, instructors will have to consider how to help their students leverage GenAI tools.
Mar 3, 2025
Being Transparent with AI Use: How to Cite, Disclose, and Document
When using GenAI tools, the best practice is to be as transparent as possible. This concise guide gives a brief overview of how to do this.
Mar 3, 2025
AI and Academic Integrity
How are students using AI and how can we clarify expectations?
Mar 3, 2025
AI is here and you can ACE it!
Learn how to use GenAI tools in a way that is effective and efficient with the "ACE Your AI Use" model
Feb 28, 2025
Should I Use an Oral Assessment?
Find out if an oral assessment is a good choice for your course.
Feb 28, 2025
Enhancing Reflective Practice in the Age of AI
Help your students deepen their learning through reflective practice.
Feb 28, 2025
AI Resistant Oral Assessment Tasks
Explore an array of oral assessment tasks that can help you better understand your students’ abilities without the aid of AI.
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!
Nov 25, 2022
Perusall or Discussion Boards
Learn about this tool and how it can be used in your class to make for a more active learning experience.
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.
Aug 19, 2022
Keep it active with classroom polling
Learning technologies like Poll Everywhere can help keep your class active and engaging.
Jun 2, 2022
Using Poll Everywhere to Integrate Formative Assessment in Courses
Poll Everywhere is integrated polling tool at USask. As you begin planning for the fall term, you may be considering how you will make use of formative assessment in your courses, including the use of Poll Everywhere.
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.
Oct 21, 2021
Turn Pre-Class Readings into Social Learning
Use Perusall to make pre-class readings more engaging
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
Sep 20, 2021
Breakout Rooms in Zoom
Learn how to setup and use breakout rooms in your course
Sep 17, 2021
Making it Accessible: Turn on Live Captions in Zoom
Make your Zoom meetings more accessible with live captions
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.
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.
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.
Sep 4, 2020
The What if...'s of Live Zoom Sessions
Are you interested in using Zoom for online, synchronous learning? Here are a few things to consider.
Sep 2, 2020
Remote Breakout Rooms – Facilitating Small Group Discussions and Interactions with Zoom
Using breakout rooms in Zoom effectively to enhance learning activities.
May 22, 2020
Lecture Videos: Keep Them Short
When using Panopto to record lectures and slides, it is important to make multiple short videos rather than one long video.
Mar 17, 2020
Panopto or Narrated PowerPoint
What are the advantages of using Panopto instead of recording your slides in PowerPoint? Learn how to use Panopto to enhance learning.