Canva Design School Courses

Canva offers free online courses through their Design School.  I love the way these course are designed.  Each course includes an intro video and an activity.  This playground is an editable presentation that explains a skill on one slide and gives participants a chance to practice the skill on the next slide.  It is easy to leave a lesson and come back to it later.

Courses Designed for Teachers:

• Teacher essentials
• AI in the classroom
• Canva for the classroom

Course Designed for Students: Canva design skills for students

AI is Doing My Students' Homework

 It seems some students are using AI to write their papers and complete their assignments.  Check out these tips if you suspect AI is doing your students' work.

💡Tip 1: Require the use of Google Docs for writing.  Students can still use another tool to "publish" their work AFTER they create a draft in Google Docs.  Matt Miller recommends using the inspect writing feature included with the Brisk Teaching Chrome extension to replay every edit a student makes.  Check out his post and view his explanation.

💡Tip 2: Use Blocksi's assessment feature to limit students to Google Classroom and Google Docs.

• Start a class.
• Click assessment.
• Click web apps.
• Click Google Classroom.
• Click web apps again.
• Click Google Docs.
• Click confirm.

💡Tip 3: Use Blocksi's plagiarism detector to check for the likelihood of AI generated text.  This tool (or any AI detector) should never be used as definitive proof.