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Monday Minutes - Canvas Studio: A Canvas Integrated Video Platform

Canvas Studio is a fully integrated video platform for instructors (and students), offering powerful features to enrich your teaching and learning, such as auto-captioning, in-video quizzes, and detailed analytics on viewer engagement. For more information, see our guides on Canvas Studio

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Monday Minutes- Redefining Assessment with Canvas Portfolio

Canvas Portfolio isn't just an assignment. It's where students capture their entire learning story within Canvas. It empowers them to collect, curate, and reflect on their best academic work, building a cohesive narrative of growth that spans multiple courses and semesters. For professors, this means moving beyond a single test score. You can finally embed authentic assessment, helping students connect their classroom learning directly to real-world skills and competencies. For more…

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Monday Minutes - Introducing Discussion Checkpoints in Canvas

This video introduces Canvas Discussion Checkpoints; a powerful tool designed to promote structured participation and reduce procrastination. Checkpoints allow instructors to set separate deadlines for a student's initial post and their required replies - dual due dates! By enforcing this structure, students are required to post earlier, giving their peers ample time to read and respond thoughtfully. Activate Checkpoints in your next discussion and start seeing the difference in student…

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Monday Minutes- Whats new with Honorlock this Spring?

Honorlock has several important updates for the Spring 2026 semester, including an updated Honorlock Syllabus Statement. Learn more in today’s Monday Minute.

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Monday Minutes- Create Calendar Events in Canvas

Creating a calendar event in your Canvas course calendar is a great way to add tasks to your students’ to-do lists that are important for them to remember, even if they aren’t assignments with due dates.

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Monday Minutes- Student Engagement with Lucid

The Lucid suite offers collaborative tools for visual thinking, helping educators and students brainstorm, organize, and communicate ideas effectively. With features like real-time collaboration and digital whiteboards, Lucid enhances student engagement, encouraging active participation in lessons, interactive discussions, and collaborative projects.

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Monday Minutes- Preparing Your Course for a Disruption

Welcome to Monday Minutes, a weekly video series produced by USF Innovative Education’s Digital Learning team. We want to make sure that you and your students are ready for any disruptions that could occur in the semester to ensure academic continuity. In this video, we cover communicating with your students, preparing asynchronous content in Canvas, and ways Digital Learning is here to support you. During times of disruption, phishing scams can increase. Please see the following USF IT…

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Monday Minute - Overview of Microsoft Education

Introducing Microsoft Education - A fresh, streamlined experience is on the way. Microsoft tools like Teams and Meetings will now live under one easy-to-find Microsoft Education button. This update enhances security, simplifies navigation, and keeps all your existing Teams meetings and classes exactly as they are. Explore what’s new on the InEd Digital Learning Microsoft Teams page.