Webinar · 17 April 2026
Extending Canvas Assignments
Making the learning journey visible - a 30-minute practical session for learning designers and educators using Canvas.
About This Session
What happens between setting an assignment and receiving a submission?
Most of what students think, question, and work through across a semester never makes it into the final submission. Canvas captures when a student submits. What it cannot capture is the early confusion, the shift in perspective halfway through the module, the moment where something actually clicked. This session explores what becomes possible when you extend the Canvas Assignment to capture more of that journey - without changing the assignment itself, and without adding work for educators or students.
Three practical examples. Thirty minutes. A conversation worth having if you are designing assessment for Canvas and want to see more of what learning actually looks like before the deadline arrives. Friday 17 April, 12:00pm AEST.
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy · Co-founder & CEO, Stackle
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Friday 17 April · 12:00pm AEST · 30 minutes
What to Expect
Three examples. Thirty minutes.
Each example shows a different way educators are extending their Canvas Assignments to capture more of the thinking that happens before students hit submit.
01
Scaffolded evidence toward a major submission
How learning activities placed across Canvas pages in Weeks 2, 5, 8, and 11 connect to a single Canvas Assignment - building a visible development arc that lands in SpeedGrader with the submission.
02
Locked responses at key learning moments
How Quick Reflect activities placed inside Canvas module pages capture student thinking at specific points in time - before refinement, before research, before the assignment window opens.
03
A semester-long journal in one Canvas space
How Learning Journals embedded inside Canvas pages give students a continuous space to document and revisit their thinking - with every revision timestamped and stored.
Sean Duffy · Co-founder & CEO
See what becomes visible.
Want to see how Stackle extends your Canvas Assignments before the session? Thirty minutes with Sean, tailored to your courses.