Building Accessible Content
There are a lot of tools living in your device’s accessibility settings that can have a profound effect on the way you and your students access content. Continue reading to ... Read More
Setting Up Zoom to Teach Remotely
Below you will find directions on how to create a Zoom link so that instruction can take place remotely. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach ... Read More
Assigning Documents to Students (Elementary Teachers)
Seesaw, the platform that is utilized by our six elementary schools, does not have a built in mechanism that allows a teacher to assign files (Ex. Word, PowerPoint, PDF etc.) ... Read More
Canvas Rich Content Editor
Canvas calls their tool to create and edit content the “Rich Content Editor”. Many of the tools found in the “Rich Content Editor” are similar to those found in other ... Read More
Rename Course Sections in Canvas
There are areas of Canvas where a teacher might want to look at a specific section of a course that they teach. Under the current setup, course sections are named ... Read More
Grade Sync – Canvas to SchoolTool
Canvas has the ability to sync student grades to SchoolTool to save teachers time. When enabled, teachers have the ability to pick and choose the assignments they want to sync ... Read More
Submitting a File for Canvas Assignments
Within Canvas, teachers have the ability to create assignments that require a submission of a file (I.e. Word Document, PowerPoint Document, or Excel Document). When this is done, students will ... Read More
*New* Microsoft OneDrive External Tool for Canvas
Microsoft has released a new external tool for Canvas that allows teachers to assign Microsoft Office documents to students. This will replace the Office 365 Cloud Assignment external tool that ... Read More
Adding Nearpod lessons to Canvas via an assignment
When you want students to complete a Nearpod lesson as an assignment and see all of the data in the Speedgrader, you will want to add the Nearpod lesson to ... Read More
Creating a Kami Assignment in Canvas
Canvas provides a variety of options to teachers in how they assign documents for their students to complete. One of those options is to assign documents through Kami, which allows ... Read More
Become An Observer In Canvas
Canvas Observer Accounts Parents have the ability to create their own Canvas account in order to keep up to date on their child's coursework. In order to view a child's ... Read More
Combine Courses In Canvas (Cross-Listing)
This year, every course section was given its own course in Canvas. The initial method for combining these sections into one course was time consuming and a little tricky. With ... Read More
2020 – 2021 Canvas Course Archive
When this school year ends, your 2020 - 2021 courses in Canvas will become "past enrollments". You will still have access to them to see what they contain and can ... Read More
How To Copy Content From Another Canvas Course Using The Course Import Tool
You can copy course content such as assignments, modules, pages, and discussions from previous Canvas courses into existing courses. You only have access to copy content from courses in which ... Read More
Canvas Notification Settings
Do you receive way too many notifications from Canvas in your email inbox? Maybe you want to be notified every time your teacher posts an announcement or grades an assignment ... Read More
Introduction To Canvas
In this video, I show how to navigate Canvas, specifically how to use and navigate a Student Training course that is available to students in their Canvas accounts. The course ... Read More
Making a Quiz in Canvas Studio
Teachers have been utilizing and loving putting questions within videos using Canvas Studio. I figured I'd send it out again for people that are interested in learning how to do ... Read More