QR Code

This episode demonstrates making and using QR Codes.
QR Code
QR Code P2

PDF Embed in Canvas - Deep Dive

You may have figured out that you can grab an iFrame code from any object and paste it into Canvas via the HTML side of your editor. You just have to know where to find the code. Some objects such as video and audio clips can simply be embedded natively but you can also embed without an icon in the tool bar. Check out this PDF embed.
PDF Embed

Quizlet Embed to Canvas - Deep Dive

Instead of posting a link to Quizlet try this little trick to embed a Quizlet student practice game to a Canvas Content page. This works within the Canvas LMS platform and keeps students close to the learning. Students can still access Quizet directly from within the embed if they wish to explore other Quizlet features.
Quizlet Embed

Dynamic Google Drive Embed to Canvas - Deep Dive

If you want to embed a Google Drive document into Canvas and don't want or need to allow students the ability to "make a copy" in order to edit the document you might want to consider this trick. It makes for a professional looking Google Document post without the editing tools that go along with a Google Drive document. Check this out.
Dynamic Google Drive Embed

Canvas Power Point Embed - Deep Dive

You can embed a Power Point or Google Drive Slide presentation into a Canvas content page and it looks really slick. Students can access the slide show without gaining access to the edit page and it also hides the "make a copy" feature when you don't want students to be able to write on the slides.
Google Slide Embed

Course Card Image

You can place or make an image to go on your Course Card for your Canvas dashboard. Your students will see the image when ever they look at your course.

Course Card Image

ScreenCast-O-Matic

There are many screencast recording software available but if you want to make regular screencasts you want something easy to use and consistent.

This is a screencast of a screencast in order to introduce you to my favorite screencasting software. I recorded this using Quick Time Player on a MacBook in order to capture ScreenCast-O-Matic in action. Quicktime is very rough, in my opinion, as it is not easy to edit, start and stop at will, truncate, delete little parts, or basically do any of the things you want to do on the fly when making quick screencasts. This Internet based software does all the above and probably much more than I have explored.
ScreenCast-O-Matic

Google Drive - Video Upload

After you have downloaded or made up your own video/screencast you can upload it to Canvas directly or place it into a Google Document or Slide presentation.

You first must upload your video to Drive in order to obtain a URL. Then, you can paste that URL into a document or a Slide presentation. It will run the video from Google Drive. Be sure to give it the proper share permissions so your audience can view it.
Google Drive Upload P1
Google Drive Upload P2

YouTube Download - Deep Dive

The only way to totally separate your video posts from YouTube is to download them directly to your machine as a video file. Of course you can make your own video/screencast and that will be separated from YouTube as well unless you first upload it to YouTube. YouTube has a way to always link back to itself if you link even when altering the iFrame code first.
YouTube Download P1
Download YouTube P2

Single Space

If you have typed short sentences or bullet points onto a content page in Canvas and have wanted to single space instead of the default double space, this tip is for you.
Canvas Single Space

Additional Folder

In case you have ever run into the problem in Google Drive of wanting to place a shared document into a new folder but did not want to disconnect it from your colleagues who shared, here is a way to do that. Move the document into an additional folder without making a copy. Making a copy will cut the ties from other collaborators and prevent it from automatically updating when changes are made by others.
Google Drive - Additional Folder

Undelete

This quick trick could save your life. If you have deleted a quiz/assignment etc. in canvas on purpose or even by accident you can get it back and all its information.
Undelete

Hyperlink Secret

This little trick allows you to make a hyperlink in Canvas so that when students hover over the link a little message pops up in which you can make a directive or tip of what they are to do with that particular link. You make use of the Command + K keys. Actually, these keys allow a link-to in any application but in Canvas it adds the secret popup message capability.
Hyperlink Secret

Google Form

Check this short Google Form how-to. I was sick of my own voice so I made it "silent." It took two parts to demonstrate the Form with a button at the end to produce a "quiz."
Google Form P.1
Google Form P.2

Navigation Menu

These two clips explain how to set and order your Canvas navigation menu at the left margin of your course. You can add direct links that your students and parents may access to see specific information making it very easy and eliminating the need to post them in your announcements or modules. They show up each time they log in without the need to search for them.
Canvas Navigation Menu Applications P.1
Canvas Navigation Menu Applications P.2

Calendar

This clip gives a few tips on using your Canvas Calendar. When you schedule a due date on an assignment or quiz it automatically populated onto your Canvas Calendar. Currently, the Canvas Calendar does not integrate with your Google Calendar.
Canvas Calendar

Avatar

This how-to clip demonstrates how to set or change your Canvas Avatar (picture image).
Canvas Avatar

Dashboard

This clip shows you how to set up your dashboard favorites so that you see them and not too many each time you log in to Canvas.
Dashboard

Buttons / Home Page

The short version of how to build a cool button for you home page as well as how to hyperlink it.
Buttons P.1
Buttons P.2
Buttons P.3

Sign Out

This uses Google Forms to create a sign out/in tool where students sign themselves out automatically and back in when they return. This give you a time stamped out and then back in and students use the orange cone to indicate to you and other students that one student is out at a time. You also can see who is your class leader as well as how long these exits are taking.
Sign Out/In

End of School Year - Canvas Modules

These two clips demonstrate a good procedure for transferring your modules from your current year back to your template so that you can access over the summer.
End of School Year P.1
End of School Year P.2

Hyperlink in Canvas

This clip demonstrates a better hyperlink procedure so there is a hover over feature.
Hyperlink in Canvas

Notifications

Set your Canvas notifications so that you are notified when and with what you want.
Notifications

Plato

These two clips demonstrate setting up a Plato lesson in Canvas.
Plato P.1
Plato P.2

Snip Tool

The following clip demonstrates the use of the snip tool on PC and Mac.
Snip Tool

Warning Ticket

This clip is about a classroom management tool for tracking student class behavior making use of a Google Form.
Warning Ticket-Canvas