The Assignments page is arguably the most central to successful Canvas course utilization. It controls the columns in the gradebook and gradebook calculations. It displays all things gradable, ...

We’ve all had that one professor who insists on having students complete a weekly discussion board. It can feel exceedingly tedious and time consuming to participate in Canvas discussion boards.

Canvas uses what are called “Assignment Groups” to organize assessments, and view grades, in different groups. You can create groups for different types of activities (i.e. all Discussions, all ...

Canvas lets you decide the way you want students to submit their assignments. You specify the submission type in the Submission Type box when you create the assignment. Assignment settings always ...

Canvas facilitates the use of online media not just for aesthetic purposes, but for a range of sound pedagogic reasons. This is because Canvas allows us to add media not just to pages, but also to ...

Learning Tools Latest Canvas LMS Includes Updates to Discussions, Studio, Catalog and Elementary By Dian Schaffhauser 10/14/21 Instructure introduced new functionality and features to Canvas, its ...

Say what? The Flip discussion functionality has been removed from our course options? That’s right, Microsoft, Flip’s parent company, has decided to discontinue Flip as an app outside of their 365 ...

Recent improvements to Canvas Studio, a video education platform for higher education use, include support for Chromebook devices, new administrator analytics, annotations and stronger adherence to ...

Myself and various colleagues are frequently uploading marked assignments and grades from external software to Canvas via API. Given various historical mistakes, the script will assert that grade ...