The rising popularity of online college courses creates new opportunities for completion and success. Unfortunately, more students who sign up for online courses also fail or wash out!  Students and i...

saurilio  Some of my favorite navigation strategies to improve student user experience UX/UI: Keep the Homepage brief and inviting.  A Start Here button, full course name, an image, and the instructor...

The element that sets successful online courses apart from old-style correspondence courses is: presence. Well-taught, well-designed online courses can allow students to get to know each other and the...

*You'll be glad you did.   In providing support for faculty and courses, certain best practices have been validated repeatedly.  One of those is optimizing Canvas content pages to increase the lik...

In response to disease epidemics (Covid-19 Coronavirus) many schools are transitioning to online courses, ready or not.  Ideally, online courses are thoughtfully produced using multimedia, Universal D...

For example: The Announcements, Conversation/Inbox messages, and Invitations are vital to normal functioning. The rest of the notifications quickly become a cluttered mess that few people want.  The c...

@Chris_Hofer SOMEONE chose the default selection on all newly-minted course shells. I would like it to be me.  It is not practical to attempt to locate and train every user (faculty and student) e...

Please make text headers visible in Modules during "Next" button navigation. If you believed they were visible, they aren't. If you are a designer and you feel information is important eno...

@Chris_Hofer Is there anyone we can ask about this further?   Basically, the programming is already happening.  I just don't know where.  "Something" determines which settings are acti...

How does an Admin change the notification default settings for the entire Canvas Instance--meaning settings that are turned on/off in all courses and users--before individual users customize their own...