2025-2026 Award Recipients for Canvas Course Site Hall of Fame

Thank you, students, for submitting 243 Canvas sites to be considered for this academic year's Canvas Course Site Hall of Fame Award. Teaching Support colleagues and Academic Technologists from around the University of Minnesota have reviewed all of the nominated course sites and determined award recipients from each participating campus. Read about each recognized instructor and course site below! 

Monetary awards for students who nominated the recognized course sites are being distributed over the next few weeks. 

Award Categories

2 badges for the 2026 Canvas Course Site Hall of Fame awards; one badge for Excellence in Canvas Site Design and one badge for Exceptional Canvas Site Design

Two awards were given out in 2026 honoring Canvas course sites from Summer 2025, Fall 2025 & Spring 2026. 

  • Excellence in Canvas Site Design
  • Exceptional Overall Canvas Site Design (The best of the best award)

 

Canvas Award Recipients

Micaela Haas

Micaela Haas

Exceptional Canvas Site Design

Rochester

Center for Learning Innovation

Dustin Haines

Dr. Dustin Haines

Excellence in Canvas Site Design

Duluth

Department of Biology

Alex Hoffman

Alexandria Hoffman PhD

Excellence in Canvas Site Design

Twin Cities - course nominated by Rochester student

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics (BMBB) and Biology Teaching and Learning (BTL)

Leslie Lekatz

Dr. Leslie Lekatz

Excellence in Canvas Site Design

Crookston

Agriculture & Natural Resources

Anna Milone

Dr. Anna Milone

Excellence in Canvas Site Design

Twin Cities - course nominated by Duluth student

Pharmacy Learning Collaborative, College of Pharmacy

Rachel Olson

Rachel Olson

Exceptional Canvas Site Design

Rochester

Center for Learning Innovation

Adam Saffer

Adam Saffer

Exceptional Canvas Site Design

Twin Cities

College of Liberal Arts

Krystina Sorwell

Krystina Sorwell, PhD

Exceptional Canvas Site Design

Morris

Division of Social Sciences

Kelsey Torgerson

Kelsey Torgerson

Exceptional Canvas Site Design

Crookston

Math, Science, and Technology Department