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Category: Cidi Labs

Cidi Labs is a software company that creates powerful add-on tools specifically for the Canvas LMS. Its products are designed to help instructors and course designers save time and more easily create high-quality, accessible, and visually engaging courses without needing to know HTML or code.

Cidi Labs is a software company that creates powerful add-on tools specifically for the Canvas LMS. Its products are designed to help instructors and course designers save time and more easily create high-quality, accessible, and visually engaging courses without needing to know HTML or code.

Their most popular tool, DesignPLUS, adds a “sidebar” editor to Canvas, allowing for advanced styling and the use of templates. Other tools include UDOIT (an accessibility checker) and TidyUP (a tool for cleaning up old and unused course files).

At the College for Creative Studies, we use DesignPLUS and the UDOIT accessibility checker. Instead of TidyUP, instructors can use the Clean Up tool available within Simple Prep.

DesignPLUS Accordions, Expanders, and Tabs

Author Chris HoferPosted on February 26, 2026March 5, 2026Categories Artificial Intelligence, Canvas, Cidi LabsTags Accordion, Advanced, Assistant, Content, Design, DesignPLUS, Expander, Panel, Style, Tabs

Enable Beta Tools in DesignPLUS

Author Chris HoferPosted on February 19, 2026March 5, 2026Categories Cidi LabsTags Beta, Cidi, DesignPLUS, Enable, feedback, Labs, Tools

Searching for Specific Content in Canvas Courses

Author Chris HoferPosted on January 28, 2026Categories Canvas, Cidi LabsTags Cidi, Content, Course, Courses, DesignPLUS, find, Interface, Labs, replace, Search, sidebar, text, Tool

Adding Quick Views in Cidiscape (for Department Chairs and Program Managers)

Author Chris HoferPosted on December 1, 2025December 2, 2025Categories Cidi LabsTags Add, Adding, Apply, Applying, Batch, Chair, Chairs, Cidiscape, Create, Creating, Department, Filter, Filters, Manager, Managers, Program, Quick, View, Views

Adding Batches in Cidiscape (for Department Chairs and Program Managers)

Author Chris HoferPosted on November 20, 2025December 2, 2025Categories Cidi LabsTags Access, Accessing, Add, Adding, Batch, Batches, Chairs, Cidiscape, Courses, Create, Dashboard, Department, Dynamic, History, Managers, Manual, Program, Sync

Cidiscape Interface (for Department Chairs and Program Managers)

Author Chris HoferPosted on November 19, 2025December 2, 2025Categories Cidi LabsTags Access, Accessing, Chair, Chairs, Cidiscape, Course, Courses, Dashboard, Department, Interface, Manager, Managers, Program, Report, Reports, Screen, Tab, Welcome

Adding Users to Teams in Cidiscape (for Department Chairs and Program Managers)

Author Chris HoferPosted on November 19, 2025December 2, 2025Categories Cidi LabsTags Adding, Cidiscapte, Member, Members, People, Teams, User, Users

Troubleshooting Error Messages in the MultiTool

Author Chris HoferPosted on April 15, 2025November 6, 2025Categories Cidi LabsTags 403, authorizing, Cancelled, Cidi, contact, Error, Exceeded, Forbidden, Labs, Launch, Limit, LTI, message, Messages, MultiTool, problem, Rate, recognized, support, Tool, User

UDOIT Release Notes

Author Chris HoferPosted on March 7, 2025March 7, 2025Categories Canvas, Cidi LabsTags Advantage, Cidi, Labs, Notes, Release, UDOIT

Removing “Editor Only Instructions” in Content Blocks

Author Chris HoferPosted on December 16, 2024February 19, 2026Categories Canvas, Cidi LabsTags Action, Blocks, Cidi, Content, DesignPLUS, Editor, Instructions, Item, Items, Labs, Only, Remove, Removing

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