I share 15 ways to level up from Canvas basics in this presentation. These strategies will save you time as well as increase student engagement and success.

1. 15 Ways to
Your Canvas Game
by Stan Skrabut, Ed.D.

2. Remove ambiguity and increase interest
by writing clear titles and using emojis.

3. Minimize the use of dates in files and instructions
to speed up course development.

4. Enhance the visual design of your pages

5. Create pages to ensure your content is mobile ready.

6. Provide students immediate access to course materials by
incorporating open educational resources (OER).

7. Use links to bring objectives and to-do lists
to the next level.

8. Transparent assignments will help
clarify expectations for students.

9. Use rubrics to clarify grading and speed up grading.

10. Add external assignments such as Turnitin
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11. If you prefer to grade essays with track changes,
you can download all the essays from the assignment.

12. Keep testing prior knowledge and new vocabulary
by using test banks.

13. Help students jump start their research by linking to discipline
specific library research guides.

14. Host your videos on Echo360
to enhance your courses with multimedia.

15. Enhance your course by addressing pinch points.

16. Use Diigo to collect links and resources
that students access after the course is compete.

17. Bonus: Use Hypothes.is to have students
socially annotate pages in your course.

18. Questions?