We began with 25,000 students, 1,800 teachers, and 1 goal: to transform education in Springfield Public schools into an engaging, relevant environment for all students. Discover how Canvas helped us to IGNiTE classrooms using 1:1 iPads and Chromebook...

Champlain College developed a Course Analysis Tool to be used in our QA process for online courses. The tool is built entirely on top of Google Spreadsheets and pulls data directly from Canvas via the API. We will present the features of the tool and...

As an administrator, how do you know which teachers are experiencing fatigue? As a teacher, how do you know which students are fatiguing? How do you know when to intervene? Canvas can help you observe changes in behavior and help you decide where int...

In 2012-2013, Pasco eSchool, the second largest district virtual program in Florida used digital content and online courses delivered by a patchwork of 11 learning management systems. Come learn how Canvas has helped to unify our K-12 virtual school’...

Looking to gamify Canvas courses? Want to award badges to students who complete learning objectives? This interactive session will help you climb the ladder from simple window-washer to big-time Canvas Badges expert. You will learn about incentives f...

TAFE NSW Online delivers fully online tertiary courses and student support services. A strong teacher presence, live sessions, and engaging collaborative activities are at the core of these student-centered courses. Consistent high quality is achieve...

Fred Dixon, Product Manager for BigBlueButton, will provide an update about the latestdevelopments for Canvas Conferences (BigBlueButton). Updates include integrated polling,closed captioning, and a demonstration of mobile access to Canvas Conference...

Frustrated with the high cost of textbooks, this instructor ditched them in favor of open onlineeducational resources and technology. Was it worth it? Did it work? How much extra time didit take? This session will provide an overview of the results, ...

Join the instructional team at Springs Charter Schools to learn how to create a "choose your own adventure" style of implementing core content with a big blast of student choice and extra helpings of integration all on the Canvas platform. Leave with...

Are you afraid of pushing course content in bulk to a group of courses? You should be! In this session, we’ll share some techniques and simple editable scripts that allow non-coders to distribute content from a model course to a group of other course...

In the $8 billion PK-12 software market, schools are still faced with disconnected softwarerequiring massive amounts of time to set up accounts and manage multiple logins for studentsand teachers. Learn how Springfield Public Schools is developing in...

This past year, a new kind of student-centered learning took center stage in the Sioux City Community School District: Project and Standard Based Education.  As with many new ideas in the public schools, the critics came out in droves to try to shut ...

This session is all about souping up and fine tuning the course development engine at your institution, not just through best practices, but through custom-built tools that extend the Canvas platform to add pedagogical value, speed development, and a...

Imagine using Canvas to create a collaborative space for online students to feel connected to campus and their peers. Allow students to take a virtual campus tour, access peer tutors, interact with peers, discover resources, collaborate with their su...

This K-12 GAFE (Google Apps for Education) school, shares ways to harness the power of Canvas and Google Apps. You will learn to create a dynamic connection between your Canvas course and Google as a means of becoming more efficient and effective in ...

The University of California has developed the Engagement Index and Gallery, LTI tools being piloted in Spring 2015. Come hear how Canvas course assignment and discussion activity data and content is being captured, tallied, and shared among students...

Experience the power of collaboration. Canvas Commons is a new tool to help with sharing and finding Open Educational Resources. We’ll also discuss how we built a sustainable OER adoption model and how Commons aids sustainability. Watch the symphony ...

At the University of Washington, initial Canvas adoption was low and lacked sophistication. We developed a week-long intensive workshop to address both issues. Faculty participants transformed existing face-to-face courses into hybrid and online cour...

According to Clifford Nass of Stanford University, “One of the biggest problems affecting the human brain in the twenty first century is multitasking.” This session will be a 30-minute blitzkrieg answering questions like: What is multitasking? How do...

This session will help you identify optimal discussion board behaviors, and learn to implement discussion board activities that build stronger online communities and encourage critical thinking. Presenters will share data examining participant behavi...

Learn how the University of Central Florida uses a Canvas course to alert students beforethey can be dropped for non-payment and removed from their courses. This process and thelessons learned are now being applied for other uses and courses; includi...

Don’t make your Canvas users unhappy by changing course and account role permissions midstream—plan ahead instead! This session will be a group conversation about the various options for permissions in Canvas, how they work, and recommended best prac...

Research scholarship skills are a critical component in graduate, allied health, and undergraduate medical education. Courses are typically longitudinal where multiple faculty members track student progress over their entire academic experience. By l...

Wolsey Hall is a virtual, international school based in Oxford, England that has been using Canvas for the past three years to offer K-12 courses to students in over 60 countries across the globe. We are a school without a building and teaching in cl...

Learn techniques for engaging students and managing learning activities at scale. Hear how one University of Michigan faculty member successfully taught 2,000 students in a face-to-face environment while using a single Canvas course. Find out how ins...

Amp up your online learning environment with some fun and functional razzmatazz. Learn tocreate a uniquely simple set of templates with custom CSS, Google fonts, and Commons.Shimmy-shake out the door as you get your jazz hands on this easy-to-use sys...

Stanford Graduate School of Business implemented Canvas in 17 weeks to foster instructional innovation and improve student experience. We'll discuss strategies for: 1) collaboration across a school and partnership with Instructure, 2) best practices ...

Make your students' dreams come true by collaborating with third-party vendors to provide engaging and exciting content delivered through Canvas. We’ll share lessons learned by working with content providers to develop rigorous, student-centered, cur...

Instructure Pro Services working with our Unizin Schools group to create Sakai to Canvas Migration custom application. This project created an opportunity for schools running Sakai LMS to make the transition to Canvas platform easier. This presentati...

Running a base software package makes it very difficult to gain a competitive advantage. At Penn State, we’ve always sought to add more to our LMS and it has helped in reaching the #1 ranked online bachelor program by US News. Come see how we are mak...