Design Tools Webinars (Retiring 12/2025)
Overview
With Design Tools by CIDI Labs, you can quickly and easily add aesthetic appeal to your Canvas Pages and make them more engaging for students! This series of recorded webinars will get you up and running! 🎉
Note: 12/25 Legacy Design Tools will be replaced by the updated DesignPlus. Online Instruction will be assisting the campus in transitioning to this new platform. You can find recorded webinars on the exciting new features in the CIDI Labs New Sidebar and MultiTool.
Recorded Webinars
Choosing a Theme & Building Content
Learn the basics of choosing a theme and building content.
Styling Existing Content with Themes
Convert an existing page of content into a styled set of content blocks with a Design Tools theme.
Styling Your Syllabus
Learn how to build your Syllabus in Canvas with Design Tools, including done-for-you institutional policies/resources and helpful content blocks!
Styling Your Home Page
Design Tools has special options for your Canvas Home page, including great navigation tools!
Help your students find exactly where they need to go, with as little confusion or searching as possible.
"Quick Checks" for Student Engagement
Embed quiz questions into your page content, for students to check their understanding as they learn.
They work just like this:
Get Fancy With Your Images
With the new Upload/Embed Tool and Design Tools, you can:
- Crop your images within Canvas
- Add borders
- Easily float the images left or right
Text Emphasis/Highlights
Note: This topic spans two calendar weeks, to accommodate for the Thanksgiving holiday.
We'll explore some of the little features of Design Tools that allow you to make your text pop!
We'll look at Pills, Badges, Highlights, and alerts (like the Thanksgiving one above).
And as an added bonus, we'll see how to use HTML Snippets to make it easy to set off certain areas of text and draw attention!
Accordions, Tabs, & Expanders
Make content more interactive with accordions (like this page!), tabs, and expanders.