As an instructor, you have access to Canvas courses long before the term starts and years after the term ends. At any given time, you are teaching in the current term, preparing content for the coming term, and seeing enrollments for the term after that. This can cause a pileup on your Dashboard and make finding the desired course a challenge. Here’s how to organize your Dashboard to keep: current courses within view future courses within reach  past courses retrievable Do Nothing If you do nothing your default view is the Dashboard Card View which displays a card for every course you are associated with. Published courses are on the top and unpublished courses are below. Cards are ordered alphabetically within your role in the course (Teacher, TA, Student).  Pick A Favorite The best way to curate what course cards appear on your Dashboard is to designate Favorites . Navigate to your complete list of courses by selecting Courses from the global navigation, then All Courses . Select th

Canvas course sites produce data related to student interaction. This information can be helpful in addressing instructional questions. Understanding, interpreting, and using learning data is most valid when it is used in conjunction with other contextual knowledge, including a deep understanding of course content, teaching style, and relationships with students. For example, the image below is from the New Analytics tool in a Canvas course site. Grades for course assignments for the entire class are represented by blue dots; grades for Section 001 are represented by green dots. In this way, the New Analytics tool usefully helps the instructor compare grades across sections. We see an interesting anomaly: notice the green dot at the very bottom of the graph (circled in red). While students in Section 001 have otherwise outperformed the class as a whole, on this assignment their collective grade indicates 0%. What is happening here? New Analytics Average Course Grade Dashboard When we