As a means of increasing security and safety for students on their platform, Canva will automatically begin restricting sharing capabilities for students only on October 27, 2023.

Students should expect the following changes:

1. Students will no longer be allowed to share a project outside of their school email domain.
2. Students can no longer create a “Anyone with the Link” permission for sharing a project.
3. Public view links or published websites will no longer be an option for student projects.

Educators can request the disabling of this feature for a collection of school teams by contacting Canva at edu-experts@canva.com, if their district admin allows them to make changes to Restricted Sharing.

For additional details about Restricted Sharing and this change, visit the Canva Help Center online.

As educators we often encounter those times when multiple students across the classroom have their hand up waiting for assistance. It is extremely hard at times to keep track of whose hand went up first or even what order they all went up over all. ClassroomQ is a product that helps to eliminate this problem from your classroom.

Teachers simply signup, login, create a session, and share their class code with the class. Student head to classroomq.com/students and enter their name and the class code. Now they simply press the button on their screen when assistance is needed.

There are both free and paid versions of ClassroomQ. The free version allows up to five students to be waiting in the queue at a time. The paid version ($19.99/year) ups this to unlimited and allows you to export the session data at the end to help with understanding student participation and success along with your own classroom management. There is also a school version available for purchase as well.

Head over to their website and try out this tool in your classroom. Also give them a follow on Twitter @theclassroomq.

If you are looking for a simple, easy to use, free place to design, publish, and host a website then you need to check out IM Creator.

IM Creator makes is really simple to design a website from one of their many free templates that are responsive and intuitive. They provide free, premium, and commercial accounts all with free hosting, unlimited bandwidth, access to their full library of templates and 100% ad free.

Big shoutout to Chris Nesi and the House of #EdTech for sharing IM Creator on episode #131 of his show.