Video Conferencing and Remote Class Sessions in Canvas
Ever wondered how to connect with your students during a cold snap or treacherous weather conditions? Canvas has a built-in web conferencing tool (BigBlueButton) for remote collaboration, which is easy to set up and use. You can access this tool through...
New from ATS — Creative Assignments: Podcasting
Are you interested in giving your students assignments that go beyond the written word? Would you like your students to have opportunities to practice their speaking skills, think creatively, and work with digital technologies such as sound recording and editing...
New Feature in Canvas: Rearrange Course Cards on Your Dashboard
Did you know that you can rearrange your course cards in the order you prefer? Thanks to a new Canvas feature, you can simply drag and drop course cards anywhere on the Dashboard to reorder them. This is an easy and convenient way to keep your courses organized if...
Canvas Workshop Offerings in Winter Quarter 2019
A variety of Canvas workshops will be offered in Winter Quarter 2019. In these workshops, you can learn how to use the Canvas learning management system and other digital technologies to enhance your classroom teaching, devise creative assignments for your students,...
New Feature in Canvas: HTML5 Support for Firefox and Chrome
Canvas now supports HTML5 in its Rich Content Editor for Firefox and Chrome. If you are using one of these browsers, you no longer need to enable Flash to record audio/video directly in Canvas using the Rich Content Editor. To record audio/video and embed it...
New Feature in Canvas Gradebook: Exporting the Notes Column
Note: This post was updated on March 13, 2019, to include information for the New Gradebook. The Canvas Gradebook features a Notes column in which you can record comments about particular students' performance. Data in this column are never used by Canvas when...
New Feature in Canvas: Embedding an Image Directly from Your Computer with the Rich Content Editor
The Embed Image function in Canvas’ Rich Content Editor has long offered several different ways to find images to embed: entering an image URL, browsing within the files attached to your Canvas course, or searching Flickr. Now, a new feature makes it possible to find...
Two New Workshops Available!
You are invited to attend two new workshops being offered during Week 9 of this Fall quarter. These workshops will introduce you to advanced Canvas features that can enhance your teaching. Both workshops will be held in the back of the TechBar, on the first floor of...
New Feature in Canvas: Document Rotation in DocViewer
Did you know that you can now rotate the page view when viewing a file in Canvas' DocViewer tool? This feature allows instructors and students to manually rotate images and documents in DocViewer to allow easier viewing of files that were uploaded with a different...