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PACIFIC NORTHWEST DINNER: 5:30 - 8:30 PM @ The ForumSince it’s our Battle of the Bands night, we decided to use prominent music scenes as our culinary inspiration too. Where? The Pacific Northwest, where Seattle birthed grunge (and Jimi Hendrix) and ...

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MARDI GRAS DINNER: 5:00 - 6:30 PM @ The ForumOn our Mardi Gras night, we’re offering you a culinary journey, from the Avenue des Champs-Elysees to the streets of New Orleans. Enjoy traditional festive food–baguettes, coq au vin, cornbread, and more–t...

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Come and kick back around the open amphitheater at 9:00 PM (The Forum) and enjoy an outdoor movie! Nights in Park City, UT can be chilly so you may want to wear a hoodie, bring a blanket, or both! Popcorn will be served and the Umbrella Bar will be o...

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Learn how to increase engagement in your Canvas course by integrating Cengage content. Join Janet Campbell from Dixie State University to find out how she leveraged the power of the Cengage Learning integration to create a seamless user experience fo...

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Come and kick back around the open amphitheater at 9:00 PM (The Forum) and enjoy an outdoor movie! Nights in Park City, UT can be chilly so you may want to wear a hoodie, bring a blanket, or both! Popcorn will be served and the Umbrella Bar will be o...

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Come and kick back around the open amphitheater at 9:00 PM (The Forum) and enjoy an outdoor movie! Nights in Park City, UT can be chilly so you may want to wear a hoodie, bring a blanket, or both! Popcorn will be served and the Umbrella Bar will be o...

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Did you know that Microsoft Office is one of the top skills that businesses look for from graduates? Did you know that Microsoft is now bringing our Office solutions to not only Windows, but other platforms? Even better, Microsoft has integrated some...

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What do we need to make education a better experience for everyone? Do we need to throw out all the classroom practices of yesterday? Or maybe we just wait for some next-generation toolset to save us? John Seely Brown observed that "the way ahead is ...

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Technology is reshaping education and making it possible to present the same lesson in a variety of ways and reshaping individualized learning opportunities for students with different learning styles. Come learn why Text-to-Speech technology is an i...

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Adaptive learning and learning analytics serve as incredible learning tools on their own. Come discuss and help shape what happens when these two tools are combined in the first-ever open digital learning analytics infrastructure integrated with Canv...

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“I’m Winston Wolf. I solve problems.” This is what we had in mind when we launched The Wolf, a platform for small internal tools for solving real problems. The Canvas API is great, but not if you don’t have somewhere to host software. We didn’t; so w...

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With our new hosted data solution, Canvas clients will be able to utilize the provided data to conduct research, assessment, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement. Are you looking to explore how you might work with Canvas partner comp...

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Need help expanding your brand, driving new enrollments, offering professional development, or delivering certificate programs? Come see how others in the community are accomplishing this and much more using Canvas Catalog.Presenter: Matt Goodwin​ - ...

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Curious about what's in-progress and newly released for iOS and Android?  Come get the 411 on all things mobile.  See new functionality and be the first to know what's up next on our roadmap.Presenter: Hilary Scharton​ - Instructure  Location Map & R...

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Learn how Instructure ensures that Canvas remains accessible to students with disabilities.  Topics will include our internal process, information about our collaborations with offices for students with disabilities, and how your school can get invol...

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Ever wanted to shorten the time it takes to re-design your courses? Ever wished you could leverage course material in a way that was simple? Ever dreamed of collaborating in ways that makes versioning and notification of changes automatic? Let's do o...

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Our Support team is moving from Zendesk to Salesforce Service Cloud in a few weeks. We're also introducing an option for you to use your own ticketing system rather than ours. Join us for a guided tour!Presenter: Seth Johnson​ - Instructure  Location...

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​Invite your colleagues and new instcon friends to join you by clicking the Share link on the right. If you are on a phone/tablet and don’t see a Share link, hold your device in landscape mode to see the share option. And tweet about it! #instcon​ #c...

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​Create a Custom InstructureCon SchedulePERSONALIZE YOUR SCHEDULEView the Full Instcon15 Agenda​ -- Wednesday Agenda -- Thursday AgendaWhen viewing an event, notice the "Will you attend this event?" button.If you really, really want to attend, select...

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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 best practices for creating meaningful rubrics that will benefit both instructors a...

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We love empowering our users, by allowing anyone to customize their canvas experience through LTI integrations. As canvas continues to evolve into a better platform, we want to share the current state of the standard and what the future might hold.Pr...

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On April 15th, we relaunched the Canvas Community on an all-new, full-featured community platform. Join us for a guided tour!Presenter: Scott Dennis - Instructure  Location Map & Room: BOBCAT  Login to "Add a comment" below!               

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​Breakout Sessions by LocationThis is a great way to browse for InstructureCon sessions. If you are at a particular hotel and you want to see what's coming up next, then just click on the respective time block to quickly find an interesting session t...

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​InstructureCon 2015 KeynotesAll Keynote events will be held at the Sundial Tent.TUESDAY 6:30 - 7:30 PMJOSH COATESJosh Coates has built a career the way he builds a business—by reimagining the way things can be done (even if it requires doing some ma...

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YouTube is great, but it doesn't provide the proper tools and experience for students to get the most out of teaching with video and enterprise video platforms are too costly and complex. Attendees in this session will learn about the Learning Engine...

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Want to know the future of Canvas? Come learn about our roadmap themes, Commons, Analytics and all the innovations that our product teams have been up to. We will share some exciting new innovations, keys to continued success and what to expect in th...

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Want to know the future of Canvas? Come learn about our roadmap, Commons, Analytics, CBE and all the innovations that our product teams have been up to. We will share how the magic works and, most importantly, how you can influence and be an integral...

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With the increasing focus on accountability, higher education institutions are looking toward assessment to enhance teaching and learning. Moving beyond end-of-term course evaluations, institutions are leveraging a variety of summative and formative ...

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Who are your best instructors? Canvas contains a lot of great data to help you find out, including log-in frequency, timeliness of grading, discussion board participation, overall class risk, and many other activities. AspirEDU's new Instructor Insig...

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