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20 Tips for Using Canvas

August 23, 2022 Akesha Horton
20 tips for using Canvas from ditch that textbook

The tips mentioned above were compiled by a fellow Google Certified Innovator based on surveying educators about the features they found most useful for using Canvas. The site https://ditchthattextbook.com/canvas-lms-tips/ provides more detailed resources for each of the 20 tips listed below. For example, if we look at Tip 12 we see:

Email/message based on assignment completion.

I love the feature in the grade book that allows you to email/message students based on whether a certain assignment has been graded, not turned in, or based on certain grades. This can be found on the 3 dots where you find the Speed Grader option — “message students who…” with a video tutorial –


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