Welcome to Fast Five with the Digital Learning Team where we will be looking at some bite-sized training and goals for your path to conquering your Canvas Courses.


Show Notes:


Tip #1: Accessing Sections

Large course with 120 kids?

Use sections


Go to settings in Course Navigation

Open sections

Open the Course Section



Resource: Canvas Guides Post on Sections

Tip #2: Assign to Specific students

Go to Assignments

In the assignment settings, remove “everyone” and look at “Assign to”

Resource: Canvas Guides post on assigning to specific students

Tip #3: Google Assignments LTI

Just like any good “second trilogy” we are going to redo “recon” some of the first trilogy. Since our first three episodes Google and Canvas released an updated LTI.

The old Google Drive Cloud Assignments will disappear eventually, so starting this transition now will help you!

Students will register their Drive with Canvas


View in Speed Grader

Resource: Google and Canvas Blog


Resource: Video walkthrough

Tip #4: Flipping the Camera with Flipgrid Shorts

Resource: Getting started with Flipgrid


Resource: Upload Media to Studio


Resource: Add media from Studio

Tip #5: Integrating Flipgrid


Resource: Integration from Flipgrid