Canvas Corner: New Canvas Features – Smart Search and AI Discussion Summaries

Canvas has two new features that you can now use in your courses: Smart Search and Discussion Summaries. Smart Search will allow you and your students to search a course for a specific term or topic. Discussion Summaries will allow you to get a quick summary of all the responses from a discussion in your class. They both use artificial intelligence to gather your results.

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Canvas Corner: New SpeedGrader Options and Lucid for Education 

Canvas has just added two new features that you may want to explore for use in your courses. One is a new feature in the SpeedGrader that allows you to utilize a screen capture to guide students with feedback when grading. Another is a tool called Lucid for Education, which is a suite of visual applications for creating diagrams, charts, and whiteboards. These can be used to convey information to students, and as a tool students can use for completing assignments.

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Workshop: All About Canvas Rubrics

Join us for an exciting workshop ‘All About Canvas Rubrics’! In this 55-minute session, you will discover how to use Canvas Rubrics to provide clear and consistent feedback to students, save time grading, and improve the quality of student work. You will learn about different types of rubrics, including holistic, analytic, single-point, and customized rubrics, and discover how to create and use them effectively in your course.

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Canvas Corner: Panda Pros – Instructure’s Free Back-to-School Coaching Sessions

Instructure Canvas, our Learning Management System, is offering free, one-on-one, online coaching sessions on any topic related to Canvas that you may want guidance on. Appointment dates are currently available right now through September 30th. You can sign up for these 45-minute sessions that run from 11 AM to 7 PM Eastern and are available every day of the week – including weekends!

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Canvas Corner: Bulk Publishing and Submit on Behalf of a Student

Canvas has been recently updated with some new features that may be helpful to instructors. These updates include the ability to bulk publish or unpublish modules in a course, and the ability to submit assignments on behalf of a student. Instructors can now bulk publish all modules or individual modules, as well as unpublish them in bulk. This provides instructors with more options and improves efficiency when publishing modules. You now have the option to publish all modules and items or all modules only, along with the option to unpublish all modules and items.

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Learning with the LEC: Using the Accessibility Checker in Canvas

Accessibility means designing content that is accessible to people with a diverse range of hearing, movement, sight, or cognitive abilities. It means making sure all users can access your content as easily as possible. Accessibility is a crucial component to course content that is often overlooked, and Canvas’ Accessibility Checker is here to help. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to use the Accessibility Checker in Canvas to identify accessibility issues and provide you with solutions to make your content accessible and easier to navigate for all users.

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