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...
Canvas Corner Volume 17 (Season 2): Canvas Clean-Up Part 3: Announcements
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...
Canvas Corner Volume 16 (Season 2): Canvas Clean-Up Part 2: Files
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...
Canvas Corner Volume 15 (Season 2): Canvas Clean-Up Part 1: Pages
As NMC nears the conclusion of its first year as a Canvas institution, it’s time for us to think long-term about digital course management. Most instructors’ Canvas courses began as Moodle imports and while that jumpstart was beneficial in many ways (hello, quiz...
Canvas Corner Volume 14 (Season 2): Understanding Canvas’s Course Visibility Management
One of the most important things to know about managing your Canvas courses is that your courses do not become inaccessible when a term ends, even though they will disappear from your Dashboard. Even after a semester has concluded, instructors retain access to their...
Canvas Corner Season 2, Volume 13: Using the Students In Need of Attention Feature
Canvas includes a helpful "Students in Need of Attention" feature within Course Analytics that allows instructors to quickly identify and reach out to students who may be struggling or disengaged. Accessible from the Course Navigation menu, this tool provides a...
Canvas Corner Season 2, Volume 12: Piloting Canvas’s Generative Rubric-Creation Tool
This spring, NMC is piloting Canvas's new generative AI rubric creation tool. This tool helps instructors quickly build assessment rubrics directly inside Canvas. Running from January 2026 through approximately June, this pilot is the first Canvas AI feature designed...