5 Tips for Improving Accessibility
Accessible design helps every student. This post gives you five practical tips and a short routine for checking your Canvas pages.
Course Design
Make Your Canvas Navigation Recognisable, Consistent and Easy
Students rarely say a Canvas course is hard to navigate. They just miss things. Here is how to make yours recognisable, consistent and easy…
Using Active Learning Techniques in a Blended Course
How to use active learning in a blended course, from online preparation to in-class techniques and discussion between sessions.
Carpe Diem Learning Design by Gilly Salmon
Carpe Diem is Gilly Salmon’s team-based approach to learning design. See the six steps and how to use them to build a Canvas module.
Designing Task-Centred Learning with Merrill’s Principles
How to design a module that starts with a real-world task and moves through activation, demonstration, application and integration, with a Canvas walkthrough.
Introduction to Merrill’s First Principles of Instruction
A short introduction to Merrill’s five First Principles of Instruction, with practical ideas for applying them to a Canvas module.
Articulate: Connect the Outcomes with Prior Learning
Articulate is where students put their learning into words and compare it with what they knew before. Here is how to link outcomes with…
Let Them Demonstrate Their Learning in PANDA
Demonstrate is where students show what they can do. Here is how to match tasks to outcomes and choose the right Canvas tools, from…
WCAG 3 Is Still a Draft: What to Do in Your Canvas Course Now
WCAG 3 is a working draft open for review. This calm explainer covers what that means, what the W3C has and has not said,…
Understanding the N in PANDA: Navigate
Navigate is the part of the PANDA framework that carries the substance of each week. Here is how to design it so students always…
