Amazing Canvas LMS background effects

[@TonatiuhAguilar]

Your video saved me. Thank you very much. This is what I was looking for.

[@HowToCanvas]

This is one of my favorite tutorials that I've created. So glad you found it! 😅

[@verser6717]

I like them additional options!

[@HowToCanvas]

Have fun with them 😄

[@adamhe67]

Thanks!

[@HowToCanvas]

I appreciate that so much!

[@mcinstructionaldesign]

This is a good one!

[@HowToCanvas]

Thanks 😀

[@professorfield4006]

How did you add the photo with a URL?

[@HowToCanvas]

In the RCE go to Upload Image, and there will be a tab for a URL. Just paste it in there.

[@jodihallstenlyczak3066]

I can't spend more time on this - it's been hours and I've lost so much of my original content I can't get back in the process. Please tell me - do we need the "design tools" LTI to make your programming work? Because it's not working - not even when meticulously copied (and we don't have "design tools").

[@HowToCanvas]

You shouldn't need Design Tools or Cidilabs. My institution doesn't have that. Try hopping over to www.howtocanvas.com/create-amazing-pages-in-canvas/background-css Copy/paste that code onto your Canvas page. Don't try to type it out meticulously, just highlight and copy it exactly (please steal from me). I just pasted it onto one of my Free 4 Teachers courses and it worked just fine. Once it's there you can try tinkering with the settings.

[@PourpreNoir]

Would the text over an image work with an actual image rather than a url?

[@HowToCanvas]

Probably! Give it a try and let me know.

[@kimberlyhall1184]

Is anyone's instance of Canvas pushing the background image code out? Mine keeps the text but not the background.

[@HowToCanvas]

I haven't noticed that. I'll have to explore.

[@alysonlie]

I appreciate that you're doing this. You go so fast I have to slow the video down to the point where you sound a bit drunk.

[@HowToCanvas]

The best thing is look up youtube clips from Jonathon Frakes show Beyond Belief and play them at 50-75%. Just the introductions. Lots of fun.

[@alysonlie]

Hah! If I only had the time. @@HowToCanvas

[@susanniemeyer2082]

Your videos are highly instructive, and i appreciate your careful explanation of HTML coding. One suggestion I have is that you first show the desired effects before you explain how you created them.

[@HowToCanvas]

Absolutely I need to remember to do that. 🙂

[@scottwilliams2136]

AS much as this is needed, too hard to follow once you jump into changing the code, Sad for me. Thank you

[@HowToCanvas]

Because of this comment, I've decided that next month I will deliver a webinar on this topic so that people can see the demonstration and ask questions. Check for that in the Canvas Community in the coming days. community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructure-Live/eb-p/instructurelive

[@scottwilliams2136]

@@HowToCanvas Pease remember Deaf Instructors rely on captions, so moving the mouse at light speed and reading captions at the same time is a challenge.