Introduction to Canvas

Enduring Understanding: By organizing a Canvas course so that it is in harmony with the natural forces, we will be able to harness learners’ natural energies into a productive avenue toward educational success.

Essential Question: How can the tenets of Feng Shui impact a Canvas course?

Objectives:  Align components of Canvas with characteristics of chi. Apply the bagua to online course set-up.

Enduring Understanding: Knowing your way around Canvas and understanding how to communicate in the learning management system will increase a user's comfort factor greatly.

Essential Question: How do I get around in Canvas and communicate with others?

Objectives: Locate and use the Global Navigation and Course Navigation menus. Update personal profile, settings, and notifications. Create a new folder and upload a file in the personal file section. Create a course announcement Locate the Inbox and create a new conversation.

Enduring Understanding: Assignments, Files, discussions, pages, and modules can be created and organized to create a positive learning experience for users and a positive designing experience for instructors.

Essential Question: How can a modular design impact online course design?

Objectives: Upload and organize a couple of documents in the Files section. Create an assignment and incorporate the options and right side tools into the assignment. Create an assignment group. Create a module and load a file and assignment into the module.

Enduring Understanding: The Canvas Gradebook can be your ally if you know how to use it.

Essential Question: How do I create columns in the gradebook?

Objectives: Create gradebook columns. Mute grades and learn gradebook settings.

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