Canvas includes translation tools that can make it easier to communicate with students who speak English as a second language. There are a couple of ways you might use this feature. The first is through the Canvas Inbox, where instructors can include a translated...
Canvas has introduced a new Notebook feature designed to help students keep track of important or confusing information in their courses. The feature is enabled sitewide, so it's available to students in every course without instructors having to do anything. Students...
Canvas IgniteAI Discussion Summaries can help instructors quickly get an overview of what students are discussing without having to read every contribution before identifying the major themes. When enabled, the Discussion Summary feature appears (only to instructors)...
When helping students navigate Canvas, please be aware that the student dashboard view may look very different from your own. Canvas offers students a customizable dashboard experience that allows them to arrange, add, and remove various dashboard widgets according to...
Canvas is constantly changing in small, and sometimes large, ways. While many of these updates are minor, or only affect students or admins, it can be tricky to figure out which tweaks will actually impact your day-to-day teaching. While the Ed Tech department will...
Hopefully, Canvas treated you well this year, or at least didn’t make your life harder! As you start thinking about your next semester teaching from a Canvas course shell, this is a great time to make a few small tweaks that can save you a lot of time later on. Here...
We've all heard about the new accessibility requirements for educational content that became law in April 2026, but you may not be aware of the work Canvas has been doing behind the scenes to assist educators in meeting the new standards. One big example is Canvas's...
When you import from a previous course in Canvas, that course's announcements arrive with everything else. That’s different from NMC's previous experience with Moodle, and it can catch instructors off guard. If you’ve used weekly announcements or frequent course...
Last week’s Canvas Corner talked about cleaning up your Canvas courses as it relates to Pages. This week, we’re turning our attention to Files. The Files link contains essentially anything an instructor has uploaded to a course. If your course began as a Moodle...