Canvas Corner Volume 3 (Season 3): Save Time with Canvas Discussion Summaries
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)...
Canvas Corner Volume 2 (Season 3): The New Canvas Student Dashboard View
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 Corner Volume 1 (Season 3): Finding Canvas Update Notifications
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...
Canvas Day Camp is Coming! Thursday, August 20 from 9-4 (and on Zoom)
Do you need help getting ready for the start of fall semester? Want assistance importing course content in Canvas? Do you need to get courses cross-listed, dates adjusted, assignments prepared, gradebooks readied, or anything else? Do you have questions about Canvas,...
Canvas Year 2 Begins Soon: Important Dates for the Fall 2026 Semester
It's hard to believe that only one year ago, NMC was completing its transition from (what was it called?) Moodle to Canvas, and in the inaugural year that followed instructor after instructor impressed colleagues and students with their swift mastery of Canvas course...
Ed Tech in Louisville for InstructureCon 2026
During the week of July 20, NMC Ed Tech colleagues Eric Carlson and Ben Post made their way to the home of Churchill Downs, Louisville Slugger, Muhammad Ali, and everyone's favorite 1970s accessory—the disco ball!—for InstructureCon 2026. Where is that, you might ask?...
Important Canvas Dates for Summer 2026
We’ve nearly reached the conclusion of our first full year as a “Canvas Campus,” and I hope your transition from Moodle has been as smooth as possible and you're feeling comfortable with the next term change-over. As you prepare your courses for your next teaching...
Canvas Corner Volume 19 (Season 2): Three Tips for Preparing Your Next Canvas Course
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...
Canvas Corner Volume 18 (Season 2): Using the New Canvas Accessibility Checker
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...
SXSW-EDU: A recap in Limmerick Form
An owl named Swoop went to Austin town, To see what the school folks at SXSW-Edu had found. The day before, he visited the Botanical Garden, Nine and a half miles walked, his feet didn’t harden, Though, afterwards, to bed he was bound! The Big Walk With twenty-one...