What is Cidi Labs?

Integrated with Canvas is a suite of development tools called Cidi Labs. What it does is expand design options in Canvas and allows you to create more engaging and aesthetically pleasing online course environments in the Canvas LMS with no coding. This tool allows instructors to design their own courses with minimal assistance from the St. Mike's Canvas Administrator. Because this tool comes with a user friendly graphic interface future updates are easily applied.

Tools Include

Content Editor Toolbox: Customize colors, layout, and other design elements ion Announcements, Assignment and Quiz instructions, and course Pages, including course homepage.
Multi-Tool: Customize the appearance of the Modules page, bulk manage and organize Modules, build assignment templates, and bulk edit all dates associated with your Canvas course.

This accordion was created using Cidi Labs Content Editor.

Content Editor Toolbox

While in edit mode on a content page, launch the Content Editor Toolbox using the keyboard shortcut alt+shift+d for Windows or option+shift+d for Macs. The Content Editor Toolbox will appear on the right side of your Canvas window.

After the first activation, you can set the Content Editor tools to launch automatically: select the gear icon at the top of the Cidi Labs toolbar then change the top setting to Automatically launch Design Tools.

Multi-Tool

If you do not see Multi-Tool in your left navigation you can enable it. Select Settings, then on the Navigation tab you can move Multi-Tool from the bottom group to the upper course navigation group.

What you will find there:

Template Builder

Create a Home page
Create Template pages

Module Builder

Build our your course structure
Create modules or add to existing modules

Due Date Modifier

Set and update all of the following in one place:

Assignment Due Dates
Quiz show answers and hide answers dates

Delayed Announcement Modifier

Adjust delayed posting dates for announcements

Video Tutorial

This video shows how to rapidly build a Canvas course using Design Tools. Highlights include using the Multi-Tool for quickly templating and scaffolding your course. (NOTE: this video contains no narration).