Step 1: Building the Foundation - The Basics
New @ONE Self-Paced Course
This course introduces you how to teach using the Canvas learning management system by Instructure. You will learn how the system works through a series of curated readings and recall what you have learned through formative quizzes. You will also be provided with an opportunity to practice what you have learned through a series of hands-on exercises focused on the subject you teach.
Learn Canvas 2016 from lynda.com
Step through the Learn Canvas 2016 video course at lynda.com to learn how Canvas works from the perspective of a teacher. The course is broken into parts with small videos that run 1 to 5 minutes and each video has a transcript. Must sign in to lynda.com to access it.
'Learn Canvas 2016' - Overview (1h 55m)
Oliver Schinkten shows users how to build a teacher profile, create a class, add assignments and quizzes, and use SpeedGrader and rubrics to streamline the grading process. He also explores how to reinforce collaboration with online conversations, create a course calendar, and divide classrooms into modules.
Topics Include:
- Setting up a teacher account and profile
- Creating the course and syllabus
- Adding a grading profile
- Creating student groups
- Using group discussions
- Creating assignments and quizzes
- Building test question banks
- Exploring the grading tools (including SpeedGrader)
- Working with modules
- Publishing a course
Step 2: Going Deeper - Intermediate
Canvas taught an in-depth, interactive class with teachers from the OEI pilot schools. Lots of great questions are answered! It runs about 2 hours. There are techinical issues for the first 5 minutes.
Topics Include:
- Canvas Interface: (Navigation / Profile / Recent Activity)
- Structuring your Canvas Course: (Calendar / Syllabus / Module / Assignment Groups)
- Creating Content: (Pages / Assignments / Discussions / Quizzes / Files)
- Grading & Assessment: (Outcomes / Rubrics / Gradebook / Speedgrader)
- Settings: (Navigation / Apps / Student View)
Topics covered in sequential order and times are listed where they occur in the video.
- Canvas Interface (5m)
- Recent Activity (5m)
- Help (7 m)
- Profile/Notification (8m)
- Structuring your Canvas Course (17m)
- Best Practices in Help (18m)
- Calendar (19m)
- Syllabus (28m)
- Assignment Groups (32:53m)
- Modules (36:22m)
- Creating Content (40:25m)
- Create Module Items (40:45m)
- Pages (lists, links, images, video) (44:30m)
- Assignment (55m)
- Rubrics (1:05:30 hr)
- Outcomes (1:11 hr)
- Quizzes (1:12 hr)
- Manual Quiz Questions (1:16 hr)
- Find Questions (Question Banks) (1:17:56 hr)
- New Question Group (1:18:30 hr)
- Discussions (1:19:50 hr)
- Publish (1:24:34 hr)
- Student View (1:25 hr)
- Module Settings - control viewing sequence (1:28:14 hr)
- Grading & Assessment (1:30:56 hr)
- Gradebook (1:31:40 hr)
- Speedgrader (1:33:36 hr)
- Settings (Customizing) (1:40 hr)
- Navigation (1:40:15 hr)
- Apps (1:40:36 hr)
- Import QTI Files (1:41:37 hr)
- Upload and Preview Files in Pages (PDF, Excel) (1:42:46 hr)
- Home Page Designation (1:42:50 hr)
- Announcements (1:45:17 hr)
- Multiple Class Sections (1:48:18 hr)
Step 3: Canvas Tours by Canvas - Specifics
Canvas Instructor Tour (45 mins)
- Start the tour - Links to resources, questions, and download a copy of the course
- Tour videos - List of 16 short videos
Canvas Instructor Orientation (4 hours)
- Canvas Instructor Orientation - Roadmap of course modules, join and/or download the course
Resources
- Canvas Guides - List of guides and is searchable for the guide you need
- Find Answers at Canvas - List of guides, FAQs, Canvas resources, and is searchable
- Canvas Course Design - University of Washington, Seattle, course on how to design and set up a course using Canvas
