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January 2021 Newsletter1/20/2021
Frame images with a table acting as a background
When editing pages in Canvas, you might desire to spruce up the look of your images – without having to resort to learning HTML. Before adding a new image, insert a single-cell table. Using the rich content editor, you can adjust cell padding, border weight and cell spacing as well as adjusting the color of both the cell and the border. Once you’ve played with these and adjusted them to your liking, insert your image inside the table, and voila, you have a framed photo. Display multiple documents side-by-side using a table Most teachers structure their classes in a way that certain assignments recur weekly. For example, an English teacher may have journals due each week, or a math teacher may assign story problems each week. Treat your first “module” like a weekly template. Once you have built one module, you can duplicate it for each subsequent week or unit, thus preventing you from reinventing the wheel for each new module. You can, of course, edit each new module. Do this by clicking on the three vertical dots to the right of each module and selecting “duplicate. Create word art buttons using Google Draw or Google slides Give your students friendly, clickable buttons that help them navigate through Canvas. To do this, open Google Draw (or Google Slides works, too!). Type the text you want to appear on your button (for example, “week one”) and then fancy it up – change the font, size, and color until you are satisfied. Insert the image into a page, then hyperlink it to the appropriate page or module. You can align your buttons vertically or horizontally by inserting them in a borderless table. Add a Course card Using Google Draw or Powerpoint, create a custom background for your Canvas course tiles. Courses default to a single-color background; to liven this up, open Google Draw, go to file>page setup and enter the dimensions of 7.3 x 4. This will give you a square space to design in; add fonts and images until you are happy with your custom design. Back in Canvas, click settings and then choose image. Remove Unwanted Courses From Your Canvas DashboardSketchnotes
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Doris Bertoch
1/28/2021 09:07:26 am
Mr. Rogers' message is the best!
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