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I Let AI Redesign My Canvas Pages (And You Should Too)

My latest favorite way of using AI in my classroom is to vastly improve the look of my Canvas course pages and assignments.  I've tried making my Canvas pages better by adding color and images ever since I first started using it in 2020. I've attended webinars about how to make small tweaks to HTML to add borders to my images, or turn horizontal lines into dotted horizontal lines. And, of course, emojis help.  Then, one day earlier this year, I was frustrated with how much trouble students were having with the directions for an assignment. Admittedly, the directions were overly wordy, and I was about to take my own frequent advice and ask an AI to revise the directions for clarity. Then I wondered what would happen if I asked the AI to revise the directions AND the HTML. The results produced a much more readable page, with clearer directions, and a clean design. I was hooked.  Now, I frequently ask Claude.ai to revise the HTML of my Canvas pages before ...

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