Canvas community

Matt McGhie from Instructure

The community is on the Instructure website. Can subscribe to either all postings or to individual threads. Can unsubscribe in the same way.
Forums to watch

• -Announcements
• Ask a question (correct answers are tagged). There are Canvas coaches in the forum (Renee Carney from lower Columbia is one of them!)
• Feature requests. You can vote for features you want and the ones with the most votes rises in priority. Make feature requests by explaining the problem you are trying to solve and let the Canvas folks find a Canvas way to solve it (as opposed to saying "I want you to build feature x).
• There are 3 statuses: planned, blank, not planned (not going to put this in Canvas)
• Release notes and screencasts - they do a release every 2 weeks. They post release notes 1 week before the update. They do a screencast showing what the new features can do in about 2 minutes - cool! I'm Definately going to subscribe to this.
• Best practice webinars - typically the second Friday of each month. Taught by coaches and Instructure folks. Recordings are posted there for later viewing.

Canvas community created resources. At the bottom, hard to find, but this is where normal folks can go in and put their cool stuff. (I saw one on using outcomes features).

Share updates with faculty with a "what's new in canvas?" with a link directly to the screencast. Another college uses an email listserv. No one here seems to use the announcements.