Creating a badging system in Canvas

Badging, also known as micro-credentialing, can be used to move students through a course if earning grades isn’t the main goal for students. Canvas badge is now working much better than the past using the third-party “Badgr.” Here are the general...

Grade Quiz/Exam by Specific Items

If you have an exam that combines standardized items (multiple choice, T/F, etc) and non-standardized items (essay question, for instance), you can grade the exams by specific items without having to cycle through everything till you find the right ones to grade. Go...

Friday Link Round Up

We’ve made it through the first 5 weeks! The semester is wearing on many of us — students included — but I’ve had some opportunities to see glimpses of my students’ learning and growth. I hope you have, too. — Laura A Different Way...

Friday Link Round Up

I’m looking forward to venturing out to a state park with Bill and the girls this weekend and staring at something other than a screen. I hope your weekend has something equally renewing. — Laura Cliff shared this quote in New Faculty Orientation this...

Creating Pages With Tabs

If you have multiple sections of a page, you can create tabs in Canvas using the same page, without having to make your page super long. See the example below: I have created a template for doing this: It is now shared in Canvas Commons that you can import (Link, or...