Canvas features worth the time setting up
Content without engagement is wasted effort. Here are the Canvas features worth setting up to improve student engagement in online and blended courses.
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Practical guides, frameworks and free courses for people who design online learning, with plenty of Canvas along the way.
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5 Tips for Improving Accessibility
Accessible design helps every student. This post gives you five practical tips and a short routine for checking your Canvas pages.
Mastering Personalisation Tactics
Personalisation does not mean a separate course for every student. This post offers four practical tactics and a way to keep them manageable in…
Make Your Canvas Navigation Recognisable, Consistent and Easy
Students rarely say a Canvas course is hard to navigate. They just miss things. Here is how to make yours recognisable, consistent and easy…
Tips and Tricks for Creating Playlists and Choice Boards
Playlists and choice boards give students a say in how they learn. This post shares practical tips for designing both, and shows how to…
A Minimum AI Learning Entitlement: What You Can Build in One Canvas Week
A HEPI guest post proposes a minimum AI learning entitlement for every student. Here is what you can realistically offer in one Canvas week,…
Using Active Learning Techniques in a Blended Course
How to use active learning in a blended course, from online preparation to in-class techniques and discussion between sessions.
Free courses
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Build Canvas Quizzes with the Quiz Builder
A free one-week course. Turn your questions into a file you can import into Canvas New Quizzes or an item bank, with a badge…
Build Canvas Pages with the Content Builder
A free one-week course. Build a clear, tidy Canvas page from ready-made components, choose how it looks, and paste it into Canvas, with a…
Creating Engaging Canvas Courses
A free four-week course on structuring, sequencing and pacing online weeks with PANDA, Merrill, Gagné, Bloom, Salmon, the Engagement Cycle, personalisation and accessibility.
Where I can help
- Virtual learning environments. Years of experience with different VLE installations and configurations.
- e-Learning methodologies. Course design that gets the most from your content.
- Strategy and design. Think strategy first for a better learning platform.
