Photo by  Nathan Dumlao  on  Unsplash Arizona State University's charter statement is a powerful reminder that we are here to create an inclusive learning environment for our students. A group of School of Life Sciences (SOLS) faculty recently affirmed that statement by engaging in an all-day, inclusive teaching workshop in San Francisco, hosted by the American Geophysical Union on Sunday, Dec. 8th, 2019. This event, facilitated by Prof. Kimberly Tanner from the Department of Biology at San Francisco State University and Prof. Jeff Schinske from the Department of Biology at Foothill Community College, engaged our faculty in a number of exercises aimed at helping them adopt practices that promote equity and inclusion. The core of the workshop was built upon two excellent and accessible articles: Structure Matters: Twenty-One Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Cultivate Classroom Equity Order Matters: Using the 5E Model to Align Teaching with How Peopl

Have you discovered a cool feature that Canvas does well? Or have you found a neat work-around to "hack" your Canvas course page? Photo by  Taskin Ashiq  on  Unsplash We've recently done two Teach Talk webinars titled "Hacking Canvas" where we shared some interesting tips and tricks. Naturally we are progressing in our learning about Canvas, so our "hacks" are unveiling more hidden features each time. We define "hacks" as: making Canvas do something unintended unveiling hidden features workarounds for Canvas limitations In May 2019, we hosted a popular webinar about hacking Canvas (Part I). Being relatively new to Canvas at the time, we wanted to share what we had uncovered after the first semester of using the online learning environment fully.  We covered the following "hacks" during that session: formatting hacks autotext function autoscored attendance the elusive median collaborative pages custom dashbo