Leveraging Canvas in Your Teaching

The Adams Center for Teaching Excellence at ACU in conjunction with the Innovation Foundry recently held three exciting sessions to address the use of Canvas, the university’s learning management system. These sessions covered a variety of topics, from the...

Student Attendance

If you have not used Attendance in Canvas (also called Roll Call Attendance), it is actually quite useful. Here is a video that shows you how to set it up, use it as a professor or as a...

Embed a Google Slides Presentation in Canvas

If you are looking for a way to share slide presentations with students, you might try embedding a Google Slides presentation directly into a Canvas page or assignment. Sharing a presentation this way allows students to view the presentation without leaving Canvas or...

How to change a thumbnail?

You upload a video to Studio for your course, and Studio can give you any random thumbnail (cover photo). If you upload a video recording from your Zoom meeting, the video will be named Zoom0, which isn’t descriptive either. Check the following video to see how...