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You have dozens of apps and custom widgets. Faculty, students, and staff are bombarding you with requests—they want more, faster, and easier access. Do you cut the wire? Dash to escape? See how building LTIs with theming, the Canvas API, and some bes...

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Instructional design teams need project management environments that can organize process documents, promote team-based collaboration, serve as testing hubs for new online technology, and provide stakeholders with access to resources. In this present...

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With a simple-to-use Google Sheet, with only one plugin, anyone can make basic API calls without the need of assistance from a programmer or IT department. This easy-to-use form allows for customized reports that can be updated live as needed.

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This workshop will orient educators and instructional designers to the Community of Inquiry (COI) (Garrison et al) and how the functionality of Canvas can be used to support this framework for teaching in Blended and Hybrid approaches to teaching.

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An opportunity to take part in a reconnaissance mission to gather intel into the philosophy behind Canvas' standards support. If your mission is to: 1. Understand how and why we participate in standards organizations and want an inside look into the ...

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With the help of a smart course-specific search-bot, students will get full access into course content and other related resources both efficiently and quickly. This advanced, smart search-bot will be ready to respond to students’ questions based on ...

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Learn how we leverage the Canvas API to create an administrative dashboard for customized reports and actions to make life easier for your core administrative team. Batch-create local Canvas accounts, customize tool usage reports by sub account, elev...

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A change of LMS doesn’t automatically mean a change of behavior or design. This session shares how our e-learning advisor team at the University of Adelaide used the move to Canvas to collaborate with teaching staff, sparking new course-design ideas ...

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Just like Q who provides 007 with all the tools and gadgets he needs to be a super spy, Customer Success equips you with everything you need to have enormous success with Canvas. Join us to hear about the amazing things the Customer Success departmen...

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The Stanford Graduate School of Business flipped three MBA courses by combining embedded videos, simulations, and brief knowledge-check assessments in highly styled Canvas pages with project-based, in-class sessions. We’ll share our approach and a vi...

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Join McGraw-Hill Education as we uncover the latest and greatest in agent integration technology – our deep integration with McGraw-Hill Education Connect® and Canvas. Our mission is simple: create a seamless and easy-to-use experience for instructor...

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Canvas Conferences is based on BigBlueButton, an open source web conferencing system for online learning. The BigBlueButton team will give an update on the product’s features and roadmap, gather your feedback, and demonstrate its mobile version to en...

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Yes, technology can be used effectively to meet academic advising goals in higher education. The University of Utah has flipped academic advising by leveraging Canvas tools, including multimedia, to deliver communications and build student communitie...

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Collaborative online learning challenges traditional conservatoire practices, where the individual, weekly, face-to-face lesson is the primary method of teaching. This presentation will explore how Canvas has enabled the Royal College of Music London...

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Social media networks are common platforms of communication, used by students to keep track of friends, family, news, and more—so why not use them in education? This webinar will discuss innovative ways to incorporate social media into discussions, a...

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Sometimes it’s hard to remember how it felt to be a student. But your students' success depends on it. In this workshop, we’ll share strategies for designing your course to help students in those key first moments—the first 10 minutes, the first 10 h...

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How much are your district programs being used? Are they easily accessible to staff and students? Learn how to connect some great K–12 tools via LTI. No LTI tool? Learn strategies to connect programs that may not have a tool yet, but can still be mad...

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Driving collaboration to develop and manage curricular/instructional enhancements with 45,000 students, 1,100 online courses, and 3,500 faculty at Bridgepoint Education Universities is no easy task. To address this challenge, a steering committee of ...

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In this presentation we’ll showcase the Hypothes.is collaborative annotation app for Canvas as a way to “spy” into the reading process. We’ll explore classroom examples from our pilot year in classrooms and discuss how collaborative annotation of cou...

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Video plays a critical part of any curriculum, but there are many potential pitfalls to avoid. Come see how Arc can help make your video content engaging and accessible to all of your students.

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Discover ways to offer students a personalized menu while retaining a sense of community. Imagine students selecting one of four completely different pathways filled with tailored activities, assignments, and parameters. Students choose the order of ...

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Would you like to streamline your institution’s course evaluation process and at the same time achieve great survey response rates? Join this session to learn how one of our partners did it by implementing EvaluationKIT’s integrated solution with Can...

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WOLF had woven its way into every system and process at the university. How do you unseat this much-loved beast of 25,000 hearts and minds? Every time we removed one usage, two more were found in their place! We needed a hero. We needed a savior. We ...

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Harvard has built some major expertise around working with the Canvas Data flat file dumps. Our talk will cover what we do, including how we process, de-identify, and merge Canvas Data with other data sources, and will describe some of the pedagogica...

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In this session, we'll explore effective practices for leveraging learner-generated data in the Canvas Network platform to inform web-based course design. First we'll present FAQs by faculty who taught MOOC courses via Canvas Network. Then we'll demo...

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Introducing: an LTI factory for Canvas! Project Delphinium is a research-based framework that handles the heavy lifting in LTI design—then gets out of the way so you can build AWESOMENESS. It takes care of the LTI handshake, API integration, applicat...

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Salt Lake Community College School of Applied Technology’s mission is to convert their courses to a competency-based education modality with TAACCT grant support. This presentation will expose secrets of CBE, the course conversion process, and how we...

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Problem: Failing end-of-course assessment scores at the district level.Investigation: Review the state-standardized assessment. Research content and standards that align to end-of-course assessment and investigate resources to support.Solution: Creat...

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In a global digital economy, the role of data in making mission-critical decisions is increasing exponentially, leading to greater demand for computer scientists, data scientists and college graduates with a background in analytics. In this session, ...

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Who are our new adopters? Who are our laggards? I tried to answer these questions with Canvas Data queries to identify (a) faculty members actively teaching in Canvas during our transition year who did not use our previous LMS and (b) faculty members...

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