{"id":3417,"date":"2016-08-29T12:52:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T16:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itg.emerson.edu\/word\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2016-08-29T12:52:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T16:52:38","slug":"choose-an-image-to-represent-your-canvas-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/choose-an-image-to-represent-your-canvas-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose an image to represent your Canvas course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canvas dashboard currently looks like this to students:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-29-at-12.35.00-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3418\" src=\"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-29-at-12.35.00-PM.png\" alt=\"An image of Canvas dashboard course cards.\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-29-at-12.35.00-PM.png 857w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-29-at-12.35.00-PM-300x244.png 300w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-29-at-12.35.00-PM-768x624.png 768w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-29-at-12.35.00-PM-185x150.png 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As of last weekend, those plain color blocks can now be replaced by images and even GIFs!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3419\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/08\/dashboard-gif.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3419 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/08\/dashboard-gif.gif\" alt=\"The popular nyan cat gif used as a Canvas course's course image.\" width=\"480\" height=\"414\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit goes to <a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/people\/dlyons%40instructure.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Lyons of Instructure<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To find out how, view <a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/docs\/DOC-8152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Canvas Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canvas dashboard currently looks like this to students: As of last weekend, those plain color blocks can now be replaced by images and even GIFs! To find out how,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2366,"featured_media":3419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,27,50],"class_list":["post-3417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canvas","tag-canvas-2","tag-course-management","tag-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}