Announcing the 2023-24 Canvy Awards

Creating a great Canvas course site requires care and creativity, so the Learning Design & Innovation team wanted to recognize the efforts of the faculty members who design great Canvas sites! This Spring, we relaunched Dartmouth’s Canvy Awards for the first time since COVID.  The Canvy Awards is a program designed to elevate the student…

We’ve Moved…

Beginning this April, the Learning Design and Innovation group moved to the Provost’s office. Erin DeSilva continues to lead the group with support from Josh Kim. Our team will continue to provide the same high-quality learning design and educational technology support as in the past but with an additional focus on supporting the emergence of…

Discussion Update for Canvas

Canvas has been busy building an updated and redesigned discussion tool. This new tool is available for preview now in your Canvas course.  The new discussion tool provides users with flexible viewing options; a mobile-friendly and responsive design; @mentions for course members and anonymous discussions and new filtering and search options.  In addition, Canvas redesigned…