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Go beyond the early adopters. To be successful, school divisions must continue to identify and promote the value and opportunities Canvas can provide students, parents, teachers, and administrators beyond the surface. Entering our fourth year of Canv...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Earn Your Merit BadgeHike on over to learn about badging options in Canvas, setting up badges, and our badging strategy. Moving beyond a digital sticker, we use badges to motivate students a...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Gimme S'more Learning ChoicesAllow students to blaze their own learning path through a course. This session will focus on how we leveraged the Learning Paths Tool (a JavaScript add-on to Can...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Building Features Through the Canvas PlatformInstructure engineers are focused on adding major features to Canvas using LTI and APIs. We want to walk through what we have been doing to empow...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Transitioning from a 20 year old homebuilt LMS with full control over the stack to hosted Canvas was no easy feat. We'll cover the lessons learned while integrating in-house SIS, providing ...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Join the LTI CampWhat does LTI even mean? It doesn’t matter what it means, it connects KumbayAwesome applications to Canvas. Have you ever wondered if Zaption is worth the upgrade? Did you k...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Institutional strategies and business benefits of running MOOCsHow can institutions run MOOCs sustainably? This presentation will look at the University of Derby’s MOOC strategy, which has n...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: No Big Whoop: Implementing Canvas in a 113 College SystemIn the year since Canvas became the LMS for the California Community Colleges Online Education Initiative (OEI), half of the colleges...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: “Reflexive” LTIs that Feedback into CanvasLTIs are a great way to tie together separate learning tools. But, what if we want to tie together separate parts of the same learning tool? Take a ...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Why Openness Matters In this session, experts from the higher education and open education communities will sit down to discuss the benefits and challenges of adopting open educational resou...

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With tpriester - To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Using Canvas and Blogs for Student Publishing and ReflectingBy tightly integrating student blogs with Canvas Courses and Assignments, we have created a teacher guided, stude...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: A More Inclusive Classroom: Teaching Every Student Supporting students with disabilities is more than good teaching—it’s required by law. The federal government has increased its focus on di...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Troop escU: Professional Development Jamboree Come celebrate the delivery of online professional development with troop escU! Learn the keys to getting adult buy-in, building a community aro...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Authentic and Painless Program Assessment Up your "n-value" by using what you've already got: Link course and program assessments to Outcomes and the Learning Mastery Gradebook. The TCC Writ...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: From Zero to 55,000 students - Deploying Canvas to create one learning eco system in K12 Explore how HCPSS created one learning ecosystem from several smaller systems and deployed Canvas to ...

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ProctorHub was developed by the University of Central Florida as a minimally invasive, free to students, faculty, and staff, proctoring solution for Canvas quizzes.  We will go over the technical stack, hurdles, and funny edge cases, as well as the d...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Road Map for BigBlueButtonOur goal for BigBlueButton (Canvas Conferences) is to give remote students a high-quality online learning experience. We’ll demonstrate enhancements for closed capt...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: It’s a Mobile World, Join Us!Let’s explore a day in the life with Canvas Mobile apps. This includes the daily, real-time experience of student and use by faculty while on-the-go. This sessio...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Show, Don't Tell: Self-Serve Interactive Help Using a JavaScript-based, interactive, guided walk-through, faculty and department administrators are able to maintain consistent course standar...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Customize Your Course with the Unlock App No two students learn the same way; so why are we still using printed textbooks and static digital content? In this hands on session we will demo th...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Building a Seamless Integration Experience​This session will address best practices for designing an effective course in Canvas by managing the three vital areas of LMS integration: users, c...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Creating Versatile Grade Level Wide Courses Let us show you how we developed grade level courses. We saved hours of time by using the data analysis capabilities of Canvas to evaluate entire ...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Canvas in a Blended K-12 World How do you make an online learning environment kid-friendly in a K-12 setting, where devices are as diverse as the learners? Come hear how Zionsville Schools u...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Special Bulk Enrollments: An Automated Process Learn how to manage and automate special bulk enrollments through SIS exports. This is an SIS-agnostic approach for Canvas admins who have to p...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit:  How Video Is Failing Our Digital Classrooms And How We Can Fix It We are all using video’s in our courseware today but are we truly getting effective outcomes? Does video on it's own provid...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: The Camp Sing-Along for the Distance Adult Learner Adult learners are a separate tribe from K-12 students. Andragogical principles matter when designing for them. See how we create rich expe...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit:  Breakthrough Integration: Canvas and Examity After three years and more than 50 integrations, Canvas and online proctoring groups have fine-tuned their collaboration. Examity will lead a di...

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To join the conversation or see additional resources visit: Hit the Bullseye with On-Target Curriculum Design Transitioning to Canvas, our fully cyber school rewrote curriculum with the highest levels of student engagement possible while reaching the...

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Based on the course design and learning outcomes of a large Canvas Network Course (TCM Presents Into the Darkness: Investigating Film Noir), Dr. Richard Edwards shares how this online course of 21,500 students leveraged personalized learning paths an...

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Use Canvas “Outcomes” with the “Learning Mastery Gradebook” in your PLC (Professional Learning Communities) to create CFA (Common Forms of Assessment) that will increase SLO’s (Student Learning Objectives). These Canvas tools will empower a community...

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