As an instructor & course designer I have years of history in 'all couses' section which I dip into and revisist to collect resources and things I need for building new course content. For...

In 2022-23 there was an update to the Canvas inbox which broke some of the methods in older posts, so I thought it was worth adding a note here about how I am creating this function at the start of 20...

I would hazard a guess that Instructure removed the specification because it had become outdated with their dashboard tiles becoming more responsive. That's speculation, what I can say is: The ...

I frequently want to do exactly this. The only method I have been able to find (that still works in 2023), is to have your notifications turned on for 'new reply' and use the link that you rec...

I am an outlier in my course delivering some units as asynchronous online experiences, which means I need to go to some lengths explaining what that is and how it works in practice, on top of onboardi...

You could try Survey instead of Discussion.  The issue you will still face is that, in Instructure Canvas, a survey cannot be set to both graded and anonymous at the same time. If you want to encourag...

Thanks for sharing you experience @FTSheldon  i recommend for your case that you try adding the ‘Better Canvas’ plugin to Google Chrome. This will give you a switch to enter and exit dark mode (al...

I have an update to this. I have just observed that the old functionality has been restored. You can add a specification for the Canvas course like this: https://YourInstitutionURL/conversations?conte...

I also want this feature of a graded discussion where the facilitator has an overview but learners are anonymised from their peers. My use case is showing and critiquing design work. They are meant t...

The boring answer of “one page, one video” is the safer option. But I don’t think this has been so strongly demonstrated to make the accordions something you need to avoid at all cost. There’s not a s...