Please Don’t Make ‘Fake Headers’
Check out this wonderfully short and informative video on how to make accessible headers in Canvas. Spoiler alert: Making a header is not the same as making the title bigger…
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Resources on Accessibility in Canvas
Accessibility is a big subject, but we have lots of resources for you! For a broad overview of the hows and whys of accessibility, check out Digital Accessibility Resources at…
Simple Tips for Getting in the Habit of Creating Accessible Content from the Start, Part 2: Images and Visual Content Styling
In the previous post in this series, Simple Tips for Getting in the Habit of Creating Accessible Content from the Start, Part 1: Text-Based Content, I discussed some tips on…
Simple Tips for Getting in the Habit of Creating Accessible Content from the Start, Part 1: Text-Based Content
When life gets overwhelming, it can be very difficult to initiate new ways of doing things. Looking into ways to cope with this led me to Atomic Habits by James…
13 Things You Can do in Canvas to Make Your Life Easier
As an instructional technologist, one comment I often hear from faculty is “I never knew you could do this in Canvas, I wish I knew about this earlier.” Here’s our list of Canvas hidden gems that will make your life easier as an instructor. Tik Toks courtesy of Lauren Burlison aka @canvaslmsqueen!
What Students Say In Their Course Evaluations About Canvas
Every semester students are asked to complete course evaluations. ITG asked the Office of Institutional Research about trends in what students say about Canvas. They anonymized the data and shared…
What’s New With ITG This Fall
Canvas: New Discussions Great new features You will now be able to create anonymous discussions and have students tag each other in their replies. The most dramatic new feature is the split screen….
Learning Curves in New Discussions
While there is much to celebrate in exciting new features, early adopters of new Discussions reported some user interface challenges. Replies are not expanded by default In the Split Screen…
New Features Coming to Canvas Discussions
What? Several significant updates to Canvas’ Discussions feature that will be automatically updated for all Emerson Canvas users. When? Canvas will implement the change for all users on July 20th….
Accessibility Tools in Canvas
Did you know that Emerson’s Canvas has three tools that you can use to check and improve the accessibility of your content? They are the Ally course accessibility report, the Rich Content Editor checkers, the Ally gauges for files and images, and Ally alternative formats. Read on to learn about the power these tools hold!