May 2025 Newsletter

Greetings from the Cidi Labs team! We hope that April showers brought you May flowers – at least figuratively speaking. This edition of the Newsletter contains some exciting new opportunities to learn and engage, as well as a roundup of valuable events and resources to start the coming month off right.
DesignPLUS Summer School for Educators

Five Sessions to Transform Your Canvas Experience!

June 9 – 13th from 11am – 12pm MT each day

DesignPLUS Summer School is back by popular demand! Once again, we’re hosting a virtual training series to help faculty, designers, and educators become proficient with the DesignPLUS Sidebar. Unlike our regular train-the-trainer sessions, we are encouraging all DesignPLUS users to attend this training, so please share this invitation with others at your institution! The sessions will be recorded and shared with all registrants after the events.

Come on down for The Cidi Center Open House, hosted by Cidi Labs

Save the Date!

Tuesday, July 22nd at InstructureCon

Are you heading to Spokane in July? We’d love to see you! If you’re attending InstructureCon, please plan to stop by our “Cidi Center Open House” anytime between 10am and 5pm on Tuesday before the conference kicks off. The Cidi Labs team will be there ready to greet you with snacks, swag, smiles, and solutions!

📣 Discount Code: As a sponsor, we are happy to be able to pass along a discount from Instructure! Use IC25CidiLabs-10 for 10% off full conference passes.

Resource Roundup

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Don’t Miss Our NEW Accessibility Matters Series

Earlier this month, we kicked off our NEW monthly blog and webinar series: Accessibility Matters! As with its predecessor, Design Matters, our focus is on sharing research and practical strategies for designing and delivering quality, accessible courses in Canvas.

Recent Webinar Recordings: In Case You Missed It

Our webinars continue to be extremely well-attended and well-received! Find out why by watching the recordings of any recent webinars you may have missed:

As a reminder, recordings for all past webinars are available on our Learn More video site.

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Congrats to our Design Contest Winners!

The DesignPLUS Library received some fantastic new assets this month, thanks to the winners of our recent Design Contest! 🙌 Congratulations to:

  • Emilie Scheiss, Indiana University
  • Linda A, University of Pennsylvania
  • Cathy Swain, Northeastern University
  • Michelle Hudiburg, Pittsburg State University
  • Jess Kahlow, University of Texas, Arlington
Thumbnail screenshots of new Library assets contributed by Design Contest winners

🆕 New Video Tutorial:

DesignPLUS Module Lists
DesignPLUS Module Lists provide your students with aesthetic link lists of your existing Canvas Modules, or interactive module content displays, depending on your preferences. They’re quick and easy to embed anywhere in your Canvas content where the Sidebar is available! Our new video tutorial will help you learn how.

Product Updates

Recent Releases

For details on May’s product releases, please refer to the respective Release Notes: Also, joining our Customer Community on Slack is a great way to get notified as soon as product updates are released!

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May this month’s blooms lead to a fruitful June,

The Cidi Labs Team

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