Eye on K-12: Keeping K-12 Teachers and Students at the Heart of Canvas

Alright. Well, thank you so much for joining us. If you are not sure you're in the right place, I think you're good because you scan to get in, but we are the K-twelve session, product session, Hey now. It's been a lot. No. Just kidding.

We're really excited to be able to share a few things with you today. My name is Jody Saylor. I think most of you, I've spoken to at different times in, calls or Zoom meetings or while you've been here. So, I am the director of product for Canvas LMS, So anything that is feature facing, so any of the things that you're using on a front end typically come through me and my teams. I myself have been an educator for many, many years.

I was in general education for k through excuse me, fifth and sixth grade, taught in a split classroom for my first eight years, so you can imagine how fun that one was. And then I was also a k three six special educator, and also an adjunct professor. And my name is Chris Smith. I lead our K-twelve solutions engineering team. Think of a solutions engineer as an instructional and technical consultant that's available to you when you're looking for a learning management system or an assessment management system or an analytic solution.

Like Jody, I came to an instructor after a long career in K twelve public education. I actually started teaching in nineteen ninety five, I had the first internet connected classroom in the Wake County Public School System, which is in Raleigh, North Carolina, and they gave me six computers and a projector and a laptop, and they said, Christy, what you can do with this. And so it led me to a longer journey in EdTech. I worked for the South Carolina Department of Education for a period of time, and then sort of closed out my career with the Rock Hill School System and Rock South Carolina, where I let our digital conversion, our one to one initiative, where we rolled out twenty thousand iPads to students and teachers and a whole host of digital resources, Canvas really being the most important of those. It was the glue that kind of held everything together.

And I've been here, I guess, now nine years or so. Oh, I didn't say that. I've been here seven years, but Chris, fun fact, I was the teacher. They gave six laptops and a bridge sector, and I got to do it for the first time in my classroom a few years later, but that's okay. Twenty years.

Well, Canvas is just one of many solutions inside of the Instructure Learning platform, and it's really designed to be the hub of your digital ecosystem. But in addition to Canvas, we have Master Connect, which is our assessment management solution. We have assessment content solutions, we have analytic solutions, We have, applications like Canvas catalog and Canvas credentials that support high quality professional development in your districts as well. Now, today, we're gonna focus the majority of our time on canvas, but we're probably gonna sneak in a little bit of Mastery Connect. I do encourage you when you have time to stop by the exhibition.

Holland visit our other booths and learn about our other solution sets. Holistically, They're designed to support every aspect of your instructional cycle. And you wouldn't be in a product session if we didn't say this. So there are a few things that we will be looking at today that are forward facing. So you'll get a sneak peek at a few things that we're developing.

It is important to remember that as strategy changes, as we start doing interviews with folks like you, we get different feedback. Those may change. So just want to clarify that what you've seen today may not be exactly what you get. So the old thing that educators where many hats is most certainly true. And it's really the underlying theme of our presentation today.

And no one word, like, educator or teacher really encapsulates or captures all of the work that you do. So we wanna start by developing some common understanding, and we have a question that we would like you to answer. What hats do you wear on a daily basis? What roles do you play in supporting students, or if you're an administrator, supporting fellow educators. So to respond, I think all of you are well on your way. Simply open up your mobile phone and your camera and that QR code.

And once again, the task is to identify a role that you play above and beyond the Nomenclature of education or teacher. Cheerleader. I love that one. The Department of They Amazing. They told me to do that.

Right? Right. That's amazing. So in just a moment when everybody's had an opportunity to respond, we're going to ask you to think pair share. So we're gonna ask you to turn to a colleague. If you're on the end, you can join a group of three if you need to do so.

And we just want you each to take thirty seconds. To talk about the role that you identified and how you've leveraged that role to impact student achievement. Does that make sense? We have most folks having responded. Alright. So let's stand up.

Let's find a neighbor once again. What role did you identify? And how have you leveraged that role to impact student achievement. Thank you for taking time to share with one another. Now, in the word cloud that you see on the screen, you're going to see the cumulative responses of the group, and those responses that are in larger font are the most popular responses some really interesting responses here, Jody, anything that surprises you? I mean, I'm just thinking of all of these things here and bringing back so many memories to my days in the classroom. Or as an administrator myself, really love the cat herder, of course, the department of the day I already mentioned smackling.

So many of these things, right, integration specialists, I think that's something that we all strive to be nonstop. Councilor was actually when we were playing around with this, the large one on our screen as well. Just so many great things. Triage, who put triage? Tell me more. Just constantly, dealing with emergencies and and helping people in stressful situations.

You're talking down the notch. Absolutely. All I could think of You're ready. Kevin's gonna throw something at you. So yeah.

Awesome. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. Triage was the, the response, and, the gentleman was sharing with us, like all the emergencies that he had to respond to, right, throughout a given day. I have to repeat the question.

I apologize for that. There are some responses here that should resonate throughout our presentation today. You're gonna see them over and over again. We're going to return to this word cloud at the end of our presentation when we give you an opportunity to reflect. Thank you once again.

For sharing your responses. So we are here today to celebrate, and we are going to celebrate the various roles that you play in helping students achieve and we're hoping that what Jody and I share with you are going to empower you in those roles as you return to your classrooms in the fall. Just know that Jody and I can appreciate the work that you do as much as anyone mentioned earlier, we have what, Judy, thirty three, thirty four years of combined experience in classrooms and district office and state departments of education, and we know that the work that you do is incredibly hard. In fact, that's one of the reasons why we joined Instructure. We were looking for something that was easier do.

That joke actually worked. I didn't think it was the morning yet. So In Landis, you get a shirt. I do kind of just, but I, but I don't. Jodie, would you like to talk a little bit about the why? Why we joined in structure and the impact that we hope to make today and into the future? Yeah.

Absolutely. I I will share that when I started teaching found the perfect school. Right? I thought I would either not to be morbid, or retire, because I just loved the staff. I loved the students. I loved everything about the community that I was in, and honestly never thought that I would change my role.

Ultimately, I ended up moving into special education, then as a district administrator and ultimately ended up in EdTech, really, because I was wanting to widen my sphere of influence and be able to start building tools and that allow educators to do more to support student outcomes without doing more. Right? We know that educators never have enough time, energy resources, and we wanted to be able to help support and be able to, you know, bring that forward. So as Chris said, we want to celebrate some of the roles that teachers and and administrators have. You gave us that huge long list, and I can't wait to look at it even more, but we really wanna focus on some of these inventors and creators, facilitators and guides, mentors and coaches, and reflective practitioners, among the many other hats, of course, that you all wear. And so we're going to share some product releases with you today.

And if you get really excited about it in like, yes, I've been asking for that thing for ten years, and they finally incorporated it into Canvas. We want you to respond. We want you to shout out. We want you to yell to the rooftops. We want you to whistle.

Do all of those things. And as you do, Kevin will throw t shirts your way. Just be prepared to duck. So, next slide. So educators are first and foremost, inventors and creators.

And what do we invent or create? Well, we craft meaningful learning experiences for our students that help better understand the world around them. It's incredibly inspiring work. It's incredibly challenging work. Considerable thought, planning, preparation, and practice, go into designing a lesson, or a series of lessons that truly engage and motivate students that cause them to expend the effort that's necessary to achieve the task that we've set forth before them. I I would say it's really kind of like an art.

Absolutely. Absolutely. So as Chris mentioned, we may remiss to be in a product session and not share some things, right, that we have developed. We recognize that some of these you may be familiar with as we go through these next slides, but it is not uncommon for Chris or I to a conversation in here that someone hasn't heard about blueprints or comments or something else that is commonplace for a lot of our other users. So we will be sharing some that you already know possibly, and then others as well.

So, at first, with talking about this art creating, we wanna talk a little bit about providing accessible content at scale. We know that it is incredibly important that all students can access the learning. And so there are a few things that we wanna just highlight here. First of all, there is the rich content editor that has our accessibility checker. And, we also have where are we going here? Thank you.

I'm off to the side, and I don't have my glasses on folks. Sorry. So we also have the studio captioning. The other piece that we have built in is also the ability to use the icon maker. Are we doing that one yet? Maybe I'm jumping myself ahead.

I'm jumping way ahead, folks. I'm just gonna side. Yes. Here we are. Here we are.

So we also are super thoughtful about again, the time. We know that educators never have enough time. So with that, we've built in RCE Dragon drop, where you can just grab your file, drop it into the R and then Oh, I think we need a shirt. Did you see that? Oh, right. I thought it was a yawn.

There. Oh, it's a big deal. Thank you. Like, seven clicks to get a no more seven clicks. No more seven clicks.

Right? One, two, sorry. Absolutely. Oh, yeah. Yes. Yep.

As long as it's built in there, you know, your content, that's a piece of the content, so you can. Absolutely. Very good question. Okay. And here we are with the icon maker, so I don't know if you wanna show that one one more time.

Oh, what are really? It's my fault for. So the icon maker I don't know if you've all seen it, but I know that I had so many conversations with teachers, especially in our elementary grades, where they were spending literally hours on a homepage building buttons, because you would have to put it into a table, add the padding. There we go. Another version. Yeah.

Right? And now we have an icon maker that is accessible. Where my where my hollers are? Absolutely. So what she just said is, wait, I don't have to go to Canva, design them, and then add them in. You have your icon maker right here. What? You choose.

Yeah. You can bring your own images in if you want as a part of the icon. Yep. Correct. Correct? We were not going to pause and do that, but I am more than happy to assist you.

Or visit us in the booth a little bit later. Oh, there we go. I'm sorry. What? They're accessible. They are accessible.

Yep. Great question. Alright. Now Okay. You wanna go ahead.

Yes. Yeah. Alright. I didn't understand what you'd said. I'm sorry, Kevin.

Alright. The other one that we wanted to talk about, of course, is Canvas for elementary. And, how many of you have seen Canvas for elementary, use Canvas for very fantastic. So one of the things that we had heard also over the years is that our elementary students really have a difficult time finding where they need to go. There's a lot of clicks.

I will share a quick story. My daughter is, you know, she was doing school from home, just like every other kid during COVID. And I kid you not, she was like, get this work done so I can get outside and have ten extra minutes of recess every hour. And yet she would click fifty two other things, even though she knew what to click on. So we wanted to make sure with Canvas for Elementary, we were building this in a way that students could actually see exactly where they need to go, nowhere to click, and be able to just really be focused and successful.

Now, there was one piece there. Sorry. I'm not doing a good job with your videos, Kevin. But at the end there, one thing that we had heard from many of our users that has already encaps for elementary is, why is this only for elementary? That's why it's a question here. Right.

Many districts have started using it across all k twelve, And teachers, students don't see anything about elementary there. That's only on the admin side. The guides are a different story. We can maybe work that out right. But they're going to see it as the homeroom view versus the, classic view.

So the other thing though is that some of our secondary teachers said, I love the view, but I'm struggling with this font. Can you please change it? We very intentionally chose a different for the elementary students because I don't know how many of you have taught elementary school, and all of a sudden they see the She's just like, that was too. So you've seen this second story a and g, right? And kids look at it and all of a sudden have forgotten how to read because they've never seen that a before. And so we really wanted to make sure that they were seeing the A and G that they see when they're learning how to read and write. But for some of our secondary students, was really a frustration.

So if you want to go to the next oh, so there's a setting there to now choose the font. Yeah. One more thing I'll add to, we actually have universities that are using the elementary setting. As well. I have talked to more business schools about using Canvas for elementary than I ever anticipated.

Is there a way just to see the the difference in the view if you have one or the other. It's like so far. You can have a subaccount. You can set it at the subaccount. If you wanted to set one subaccount to chemistry, so you could look and compare, we also could just look at the guides, right, and show the two.

The quote. Brian is so great. I was like, by the way, tell him I mean, it's a good quote. So the question is grades in one grade book. It will continue being separate.

The reason is that if you are using grade passback, and I don't know Audra if you wanna share any of this when you talk, but I don't wanna steal your thunder. Audra annually from howard County is going to step up in just a second and share a little bit too about their experience with campus for elementary. So feel free to, like, mum's Jodie. But the reason that we've done that is first of all, students succeed better when they can see how they're doing in the different subject. Typically, they know exactly where they need to, focus their attention, so does the teacher, they know where to provide those interventions, but also if you're using any grade pass back and you want it to show for those different subjects, then it's important for you to be able to see those.

Now there are some people that are working around that where they create one course, and then they create the buttons instead so that they can still see it. But that adds that time right back on that you could avoid. Sure. Yes. If it so two grades in one building, if it is the same subaccount that is correct, you would want to separate them out into a subaccount.

Because it is a subaccount setting currently, as is the new font setting that you can adjust as well. Any other questions? I know this is gonna be for you. So I was gonna say just, Rockwood is another one of our districts that has actually been using this across the board as well. And Brian, did a great session earlier. I'm looking at you to make sure it did happen.

But one thing that he had shared was like, Hey, they actually really love the look, the feel, the ease of use, But some of the secondary teachers were very, very frustrated. Do you happen to be some of the secondary teachers that work with him? Okay. I was gonna say I don't need to speak for you if you are. But with the the change, to be able to change the font for secondary, he said, they feel like it's so much more palatable. They have to worry about students feeling like that, you know, they're using a lower level tool.

And I just love what he said here about students are empowered to own their own learning more supported in developing their executive function and achieve greater success. So, Audrey, do you want oh, thanks. You already took care of her. I'll turn my mouth for a second. Sure.

So I'm Audrey Nelly from Howard County Maryland of a rural school system about sixty thousand students. We were pretty, very heavily involved in the beta testing that went on as the C4e product was in development. So I believe there was, I don't know, Jodi, you did some, like, product presentation, some reveal of, hey, you were working on this. And we joined the beta group, and we're able to provide feedback on all the iterations as the product went through development and new features were released so we, when we were initially making decisions, whether or not to switch over to the C4E user interface, We met with different user groups across our three levels, entry middle high school, met with admins, curriculum leadership, and got feedback. And we ultimately made the decision to turn on the interface across k through eight.

Our high school teachers were pretty enthusiastic about it, but, the deciding factor in that ended up being our partnership with our local community college. Which also is a campus institution. So since they're using classic canvas, traditional canvas. We decided that we wanted to keep that experience on par across our high school. We really liked the simplicity of it.

We were coming right out of the pandemic. And during remote instruction, we finally gotten teachers on board with using modules and understanding the significance of the organizational structure in modules. And this took away all those other navigation options of assignments and quizzes and all those other links that students clicked on. And maybe that's where the teacher was putting stuff. They were using assignments and not using the module space in the course.

We got a lot of feedback that people just didn't know where to click in Canvas. And it varied from teacher to teacher. So this interface really, like, forced everyone to use modules for their instructional content, their assignments, and it minimized the all those other navigation options for our younger students. For elementary versus middle school, that whole homeroom model is very different. And we use the homeroom model kind of traditionally as it's designed for elementary school.

So the classroom teacher has their homeroom section that feeds over to Canvas as the homeroom or the we call it the announcements course, and then they get course cards for each of their content areas related arts teachers get a course card for each of each grade level that they teach. For middle school, that model is not the same. It doesn't make sense for the middle school homeroom teacher to have a announcement card because they're not responsible for providing that information. So we have some customizations through our SIS in how we roster and provision our courses. So we actually feed a school wide course over to each of our schools.

We call it we have a couple actually now, but, we have one called student resources, we have one called student community. And we leverage the student community in middle school, we create a course. There are three sections in that course, a sixth grade, a seventh grade, an eighth grade section. It has all of our students in there. And we marked that as the homeroom course in Canvas, and then an admin or maybe the library media specialist or some other staff member in that school is enrolled in that class as the teacher, multiple people, usually.

They're the ones who are posting those school wide announcements, either to, all sections, if it pertains to all three grade levels or you know, they post a sixth grade only or seventh grade only announcement using that announcement only homeroom course, and then everything else is you know, the same C4e interface. But, you know, we like the simplicity. We love the missing assignment flags that are on the course cards. More visibility about the announcement. It's not just that little blue dot showing there's a new announcement.

You see some, like, preview text, and then initially, it's now across Canvas. We loved the feature where parents could go in and they had the toggle. They had that drop down menu. In c four eight. Now, that was maybe a year ago, maybe, like, was released across campus.

But for parents with multiple students, in the school system. That was a great tool for them to be able to switch between children and for our case managers who we also set up as observers in Canvas. They could switch between the different students in their caseload that way as well. Have students that you'd be clicky and open to that. For the home of that, so that it automatically we don't use that method.

So through our, through our SIS, we send one we create one course per course ID. Per subject in the SIS. So the we roster a math course directly from our SIS. And sometimes those aren't linked, like, usually, the homeroom section is linked to, ELA and Science and Social Studies, but the math is often differentiated by levels, and they sometimes have a different teacher for that mass section. And, Audrey, for those who are gonna listen to the recording, could you repeat that question just in the summer the question is if we use the, I can't remember what it's called.

It's the linked, the rot, you can roster the homeroom, and then link that to the subject areas, but that's, again, not a process we use in our district. Thank you so much, Audra. Yeah. Audra does have a shirt already, so we're not just, like, ignoring her. But, Audra, I wanna say a public thank you as well.

You were instrumental in the process as we were developing this. Right? I had this vision. I had a designer put it together. And we immediately took it to the community, and you were one of the first to jump in and help us to really refine. There's several other faces in here that I recognize that really helped with that.

So just big thanks. And we're gonna move just a little bit faster. I think, Chris. The next one that we really wanna talk about is, you know, I've created my content. What do I do next? I've gotta facilitate and guide my students.

We hear a lot of guide on the side, that sort of thing. But we know that that term is fully loaded, yet does not talk to the experience that you need to have and the work that you do to really you know, teach your students. So next one that we wanna focus on, though, is the facilitator and guide. And, Chris, I think you're gonna walk us through just a few things here, that help So the first thing that we're going to talk about is submitting on behalf of the student. So from the Canvas grade book now, you have the ability to select an individual student.

And in the slide out that appears, you're going to see the opportunity to submit on behalf of that student. Now, this creates It creates a digital trail, so we know who submitted on behalf of the student, and we know the date and time that they actually submitted that work. Now at its simplest level, this provides support for students who may be struggling with the technology itself. Right? They could be new to the district, they could be new to Canvas, they could be some of our very youngest learners, or they could be students whose accommodations, right, require this level of support. Another way that we're actually seeing this be used as well is when you have students doing presentations, or maybe it's something where you're out you know, out and about and doing some service learning or something.

And so teachers are taking pictures. They're documenting documenting the evidence you know, I'm back I always say my blue table, but the table you pull your reading group to, right, or your your math group. You can document that evidence by taking a and then upload it here too, so you have that paper trail evidence that, yes, they had mastered the skill or got the points, maybe in a different way than what you had originally anticipated out assignment as well. Alright. So deliberate practice and checks for understanding are two ways that we can provide students with ample opportunities for feedback before final exam or the summative assessment.

And educators have continually asked us for ways to provide opportunities for frequent checks for understanding without the emphasis on the grade itself. And so we listened, as you can see, I've created a new quiz here, and I've set the points on the quiz to zero. That's going to automatically surface an option to do not display this quiz in the student grade book or in my grade book as well. It's gonna also simultaneously flag the assignment so that it doesn't a part of the student's overall grade calculation. So this is certainly gonna provide you the opportunity to to provide students with, opportunities for practice, for checks for understanding.

Just note that the quiz can still be set for multiple attempts. And you can still provide the students with feedback on why they got the question right, or what they got the question wrong, but it's not going to show up in your Canvas gradebook or code or your claim as gradebook at all. And then feedback is absolutely critical in helping students understand what they do or do not know And one way of increasing feedback for students is to provide them opportunities for peer review. And so peer review assignments now appear in modules nested under the assignment with which they are associated. This is in assignment enhancements only.

Okay. So if you don't have that enabled, you'd want to turn on the assignment enhancements. Assignment enhancements. It's a feature option that you'd want to enable to get this view. Thank you, Chris.

Why would you say that? Chris just said you want to enable it anyways. To see their progress. So, you know, and they'll have to remember where to submit, but it says that you submitted next step, and it's just got a very clear line Perfect. So easier to find feedback, easier to know where to submit. It has the clear line of what comes next.

And we're gonna highlight that in just a moment too. Yeah. So we'll be able to show what that looks like. And keep playing that video. And then throughout the assignment submission process, we're going to surface some modals that provide students with additional guidance.

So they're gonna find out, as you'll see here in a second, how many peer reviews they actually have to complete. A part of this assignment, you'll see that bubble up right here. So in this case, the student has two peer reviews to complete, and they can begin the process for peer review right there immediately ensuring that fellow students get really timely feedback. So powerful feature set. And now I'm going to ask Jody to share a sneak peek of a future product enhancement.

It's around enhancements to our rubrics, and the opportunities for students to self assess. Alright. This is that sneak peek that we were talking about right at the beginning, and I have to tell you, this is the thing I am most excited about right now. How many of you have created a rubric and then been frustrated when it is not aligned? It's so annoying. Right? And as teachers, we expect it to look nice.

How many of you have created a rubric, and then you cannot add a criterion where you wanted it because, oh, I forgot I wanted this, and I really want it in a specific order. Okay? We are working to fix all of that right now. We are redesigning the rubric experience, and you can see here that we're kind of changing the view so that it is a responsive design so that It's accessible from your smallest devices as needed to be doing your grading. Now we also recognize that you may want to see the grid view that you're used to seeing. You would still have the opportunity to look at the grid view as well.

So we're not taking that completely away. We recognize that you may need to see the full view all of once. Thank you. So really cool, experience right here. And then on the phone, you could see it as well.

But in addition to that, we recognize that one of the most effective things for students to do is to self reflect, right, to self assess. So we are building in also the capability for a student to assess themselves if you choose to have them do so. So you would be able to set this up And then you can see that there is one that is a full line around the four and then a dotted line around the three. I don't know how many of you were in my panel yesterday, but Kevin's like, I'm not letting me be the blame again. But what you saw there was for a student and a teacher to be able to see how did my score that I gave myself compared to that of my teacher so that then you can see you can have conversations, we know we're our own worst critic, right? So maybe the student is grading themselves harder or self assessing themselves lower than you would expect, and you could have a good conversation.

Or maybe they are constantly higher than what you would give, and then you could talk about expectations. Right? So lots of great opportunity, lots of new changes that coming to rubrics, we're in design validation right now, so it'll still be a bit of time. If you did do any of the theme and the theme voting, this was our number one voted theme. So we're working on getting that done quickly. Some point in time, we're going to move into our third role here.

Educators themselves have to assess where students are and provide opportunities for remediation and extension. And this is where you really flex your super power right, as mentors and coaches. Jody's gonna walk us through, new feature sets in canvas that can melt make our work easier. Alright. Mentors and coaches.

We're gonna move kinda quickly, but enhanced gradebook filters. This is something that was one of our feature previews similar to Canvas for elementary. Where we were putting it in the community, folks were giving us feedback by being early opt in, and now this is turning on for all as you come back in the fall. So this is going to be your new view for filtering. There are a lot of really great new filters that are available, such as being able to choose a certain date range.

You can go to see different, submission status, if I want to look at just what is missing, we filter not only by the column, but also by the row now, so you can really hone in and see what you need to look at and really just make it a much more efficient way of grading. Yes. Who said it? Okay. T shirt. I this was one that I was super excited about as well.

The other thing that's really great is that you can create preset filters. So if you wanted to go in and say, I want to do my first nine weeks. You can set it for first nine weeks, my first, you know, section one, whatever it is that you want to set, save it, and then you can come back to that filter anytime. Pills at the top will show just like when you're online shopping. Right? And you can see that I've chosen white shoes, whatever.

And then you can just close those out as you need. But if you have it turned on and you come back, it will already be filtered to that view. So those of you that have large courses, I know I often was working with, like, ELA teachers. Right? They had two hundred fifty students in the same course because they'd cross listed. Makes it easier to be able to filter what they really need, and come back to it, and it loads more quickly.

The second one is exactly what Chris was talking about. The ability to see your feedback is so much easier in a enhancements. I remember, I teach with Canvas as well, at the college level, but I will never forget a student messaging me and asking me, why did I get that grade? And I kept getting so frustrated and wondering why was she just not looking at the feedback? Well, you all know it's hard to find the feedback. You have to click that view feedback. Right? And I had not used it as a student, so I had no idea.

But we really wanna make sure they see the feedback, it's easy to find, so when they come back to see, they can see their assignment, they can see the feedback open, they can immediately take another attempt if they want. Can respond to the teacher's feedback. It's just so much easier to actually see. It becomes one flow of cycle learning cycle like it should be. Alright.

And the this one Well, if you were in the keynote, you probably heard it today as well. So and you did see this no, you didn't see this video in the keynote. That was in the panel. So just really quickly, new quizzes, we have a lot of things that we have been adding, of course. So the rich content editor that you know and love in Canvas is now available in new quizzes as well.

The grade by question Okay. Great by question, of course. So if you're grading manually, you can go from one student to the next just on that same question across the board. The outcomes report download is available too. So if you wanna export that data and put it somewhere else or really be able to filter and look at it in the CSV, speed grader links.

This was the most annoying thing to me when I use new quizzes. Right? Sorry. I'm very transparent. You can see this. But when I would go in and need to grade, I needed to go back to my grade book, find the column, click on the three dots, go to grade SpeedGrader, and then I could finally start grading the the quiz.

We now have links all throughout Canvas. So if you're on the assignment page, the quizzes page, you could just go straight to, the menu, and there's a speed greater link. They're also in the build and moderate pages within new quizzes as well. So quick, easy access wherever you are in your flow. And then, last but not least, they're the clear your choice selected on multiple choice.

So if a student wanted to not be penalized for a wrong answer or wanted to be able to show you that, Hey, I just don't know the answer and not guess they can clear that choice. And then, of course, the, multiple -- Billing the bike. Thank you. But we're gonna be transitioning now into rating our fourth role and that's educators as reflective practitioners. And so here are some new feature sets that we think will empower you in that role.

First and foremost, Kevin, if you'll hit the advanced button, how do we know if we've adequately covered our standards if we if we've covered what students need to know and be able to do? So Outcome alignment summaries are going to provide you with a breakdown of the content that you've created in Canvas and how many standards are aligned to that particular content. It's also going to show you individual alignments to each standard. So how many artifacts do I have in Canvas? How adequately am I covering that individual standard? So is gonna provide us with an overview that lets us identify gaps in our coverage, in our curriculum. Next one. So for districts who are truly embarking upon a standard creating approach.

We believe that Mastery Connect is the assessment tool that can help best you accomplish your goals and Did any of you attend the Master Connect session that was in this room, right, beforehand? Alright. So I will love you. If you haven't seen Master Connect, please stop by the booth. We would love to show it to you. So one of the roadblocks that schools have had in moving from Canvas to Mastery Connect was the need to rebuild all their Canvas quizzes in Master Connect, and that is no longer the case.

With a click of the button, I can now see all of the quizzes that exist inside of my Canvas course, with another click of the button, I can migrate those courses right over to Mastery Connect. At that point in time, I can edit the quiz. I can align it to standards. I can make changes to it. And it's now available to be added to modules inside of Canvas.

So really, really powerful feature set. And then last, but not least admin analytics. Is anybody enabled admin analytics in their instance? Okay. Several of you. So historically, analytics within Canvas have been surfaced at the course level.

And That was intentional, by design, we believe that teachers should have access to the date of first, so they can make just in time instructional decisions in their classrooms. But we know that district admins and principals need access to powerful reporting tools as well so that you can see trends across your district and across your school. And so We built admin analytics. It's an in app analytics tool, really it surfaces data from across your Canvas instance. And so Kevin's gonna roll the footage, and I'll walk you through the three dashboards.

An overview dashboard, a course dashboard, and a student dashboard, and admin analytics overview dashboard details at a high level in terms of usage across your Canvas instance, for example, I could see average course grades across my entire school. I could also see peak or low periods in terms Canvas usage. Then we move over to the course dashboard. It shows you not only activity, who is utilizing Canvas, but how they're utilizing Canvas as well. Are they spending their time in assignments? Are they spending their time in discussions? And then last but not least, the student dashboard, it's going to surface things like the number of submissions on time or the percentage of submissions on time or the percentage of submissions that are late, and then you can drill down into the individual student level and see that same data the student level, and then you can export it for use in other systems.

Those are only six of, what, forty plus dashboards that are included inside of admin analytics. And so I think that takes us to the reflecting chair piece. So we began the process today talking about the many roles that you assume in helping students achieve and fellow educators achieve. And so what we would like to do is we'll go back to the word cloud in a second, and we'd like to do one more think pair share activity, where you identify a role that you're far more excited about now, that you have additional tools to help support you in that work, and which of those tool sets made you most excited. What did you see today that got you really excited about returning to that work? And so with that, here's the word cloud.

Thirty seconds for each partner. What role are you most excited about and what tool will you leverage to support you in that role? Go ahead. Alright. We want to make sure that we keep you on time because we know you want to get to your sessions and things. So, I think I'll go ahead and close the session and then we'll let you shout out or you know, share, and we'll throw the rest of these t shirts.

But, we shared a lot of things today. I just wanna say thank you thank you. Thank you for being the most incredible, users, the most incredible folks that I get to collaborate with on a regular basis, whether it's directly through you or through your administrators, I could not do my job without you, and I'm just so grateful. Sorry. I get emotional.

Some of you know this about me too. But, also, you guys do so much for our students. Just thank you so much for the incredible work that you do on a regular basis. Thank you so much for spending some time with us here in this session, but also at Instructure Con. We really appreciate you.