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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Instructor Insight: Using Canvas Data to Review Teacher Performance Who are your best instructors? Canvas contains a lot of great data to help you find out, including log-in frequency, timel...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Tools for Online Learning Identity Authentication How do you ensure that credit for online coursework is given to those who actually complete the work? Many websites have sprung up over the ...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Service Delivery Partners: Providing Additional Services for Canvas to Meet Your Needs Canvas has recently opened a program in which partners who do instructional design, professional develo...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Feel the Power of Engagement with Cengage Learning Integration Learn how to increase engagement in your Canvas course by integrating Cengage content. Join Janet Campbell from Dixie State Uni...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Ditch Your Textbook: Using Canvas to Deliver Custom Course Content What’s out? Textbooks. What’s in? Modular, affordable, digitally-native course content that can be quickly customized by in...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Turn Your Course Projects into the Best Cast Party​Project-driven courses need assignments to shine. There are many options for setting up assignments inside a project. This session will foc...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: A Library Presence in Canvas​The Marydean Martin Library at Nevada State College has implemented a variety of services in Canvas, including LibGuides, chat widgets, discovery search tools, a...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: The Power of Rubrics​Employing rubrics has numerous advantages, but rubrics must be constructed with care to have the greatest impact in your online course. This presentation will examine be...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Zero to Canvas in 17 Weeks - Fast Adoption Strategy​Stanford Graduate School of Business implemented Canvas in 17 weeks to foster instructional innovation and improve student experience. We'...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Give Them Something to Sing About! Harmonizing a Multi-Campus District LMS Migration, from Selection to Implementation and Ongoing Support​As one of the largest two-year systems in the count...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Using MOOCs to Provide Student-Centered Learning​This session focuses on the implementation and delivery of massive open online courses (MOOCs) at McHenry County College as an innovative str...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: C-O-N-N-E-C-T, Find Out What It Means To Me ♪ ♫​Imagine using Canvas to create a collaborative space for online students to feel connected to campus and their peers. Allow students to take a...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Combining Adaptive Learning and Learning Analytics for Institutional Effectiveness Adaptive learning and learning analytics serve as incredible learning tools on their own. Come discuss and ...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Badge Me, Seymour! Do Course Badges Make a Difference? Can badges promote a more student-centered learning experience or is the result a "Little Course of Horrors"? Canvabadges were used in ...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Enhancing Learning With Universal Design for Learning and Text to Speech  Technology is reshaping education and making it possible to present the same lesson in a variety of ways and reshapi...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Increase Students’ Success in College, Career and Life with the Help of Microsoft Office Did you know that Microsoft Office is one of the top skills that businesses look for from graduates? ...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Spread the Love: Take InstructureCON Home with You​So your institution coughed up enough money for ONE person to attend. How do you make the most of this investment and take this awesome con...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Defying Gravity as a Service Manager of Canvas​It takes a witches’ brew of API calls, scripts, and screen scrapes, but with enough effort you too can get a handle on how instructors and stud...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: A Collaboration in Measuring Student Competencies and Outcomes in Canvas​Competency-based learning is emerging at the forefront of higher education. What technologies can be used to measure ...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: The Book of Math​Online math can be uncool, with expensive copyrighted tools. Canvas blazed an LMS path, and we integrated MyOpenMath. Custom question banks galore, free algorithmic problems...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: So You Are a Canvas School… Now What?​The challenge of adopting Canvas is over. So, what do you do next? Learn about our Canvas our Campus approach to maximize faculty usage of Ca...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Embedded Rubrics: Machine Graded, Human Evaluated​We will demonstrate how a Canvas grading protocol allows instructors to use multiple choice and short answer quizzes to assess and rate stud...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Our Outgoing Journey to Mobile Parity​For the past three years Dartmouth College has used a one-to-one iPad program within its blended residential/online healthcare leadership program to enh...

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To join this conversation or see additional resources visit: Strategies for Teaching Very Large Course in Canvas​Learn techniques for engaging students and managing learning activities at scale. Hear how one University of Michigan faculty member succ...

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To join this conversation or see additional resources visit: Advising & Outreach with Canvas: 4 Semesters Later​What's more student-centered than advising? For four semesters, we've run a grant-funded pilot to make Canvas a place for students to ...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Don't Drop Me!​Learn how the University of Central Florida uses a Canvas course to alert students before they can be dropped for non-payment and removed from their courses. This process and ...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Community and Critical Thinking in Discussion Boards​This session will help you identify optimal discussion board behaviors, and learn to implement discussion board activities that build str...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Behind the Scenes: Support for Student Learning​Technology can often be a barrier to student success, but with the right support, it can become their backstage pass to information and studen...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Use the Easy Button and Automate Everything​Canvas’ robust APIs are like having an easy button for automation. This is a soup to nuts overview of how we automate nearly everything between Ca...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Woodstock via the LMS: Canvas for American Studies​An undergraduate online American Studies course explores critical writing about popular music as students utilize assorted Canvas tools/fun...

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