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Middle School Math

Canvas Blueprint Courses

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"I should not strive to be a fountain of knowledge, but rather an architect of learning experiences."

- Caitlyn Tucker

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Canvas Blueprint Courses

The following slides will walk you through the Canvas blueprint course basics, along with helpful resources for how to edit and customize your course.

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Updates from Last year

Instead of the courses being automatically pushed out, they are placed in the Canvas Commons. You will be able to import any and all of the content that you wish into your course.
The course content has been updated since last year and most everything is now embedded within the page (as opposed to linking everything out).
Advanced Math courses by compacting standards courses have their own course that will be in the Canvas Commons for 6th, 7th, and those who are doing Math 1 in-person for 8th grade.

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Recommendation

We do recommend using the new blueprint course instead of the one from last year. The information and questions are now embedded into the page, which students can access if they are offline (except for items linked out to websites, audio, or videos). Last year’s course, everything was linked out, so students would not be able to access content unless they were online. If you are using last years course, you can copy and paste the content from the new into yours.

To learn more about Canvas offline, click here.

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Courses Available

6th Grade

DCS Grade 6 Math
DCS Advanced Math Grade 6

7th Grade

DCS Grade 7 Math
DCS Advanced Math Grade 7

8th Grade

DCS Grade 8 Math
DCS Math 1 in 8th Grade
NC Math 1

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Blueprint Course Contents:

Illustrative Mathematics:

All IM Content

Warm-ups
All questions/activities
Lesson summaries
Cool-downs
Practice questions
Assessments

Supporting Content:

Varies by grade level
Videos
Extra practice
Khan Academy

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Click here to see course content for your specific grade level

Click here to watch a short overview video

I know there are some differences and obstacles as we are doing remote learning right now. At times, IM can be a harder program to implement remotely because conversation and collaboration are important. Two of the most useful resources during remote learning will probably be the warm-ups as they are discussion boards and really good ways to start off lessons and the lesson summaries where notes are provided for students. Again, you can customize, unpublish, delete, add to anything in these courses.

Each grade level course has the same base course, but there are a few differences in each grade level. Be sure to check out the document to explore what is in your grade-level course. You will be able to add, edit, delete anything to the blueprint courses and we will talk about that on another slide. Also note that Khan Academy offers so many of their videos in Spanish, so you can pull those in for students who need.

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Canvas Course Remote Learning

When these were created, we had no clue that we would be doing full remote learning. With that said, you will have to do some picking and choosing of questions and activities with students. All you have to do is unclick the green circle to unpublish material you do not want your students to see.

Remember that remote learning time is less than in-person time with students. Refer to the DCS Remote Learning Plan if needed.

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Basic How To Guide

These guides will explain anything from how to access your blueprint course to how to add and delete content. One has videos and one has screenshots. This course is fully customizable, you can add, delete, anything that you wish. More about this on the next slide.

Video Guide & Screenshot Guide

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Course is Fully Customizable

Things you can do: Add content, delete content, edit content, change names, import content, copy content, embed content, unpublish, and the list goes on.

Things you can’t do: Make it grade for me……..…

oh wait, it can do that too!

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Click here to watch a video on how you can customize content

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Embed Desmos Calculator in Canvas

Click here to learn about embedding the Desmos calculator

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Desmos offers online tools, awesome classroom activities, graphing calculator and more.

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Canvas Support

If you need more support with Canvas…

Canvas Resources
Growing with Canvas Micro-Credential
If on social media, there are lots of great Canvas groups (especially Facebook)

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Feedback

Feedback on the courses in welcome! Please notify us if you find any missing links, mistakes, etc. or have suggestions. You can leave feedback via this Feedback Form or you can email Anna Jarrett at ajarrett@duplinschools.net.

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Any questions?

You can contact ajarrett@duplinschools.net.

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Credits

Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free:

Presentation template by SlidesCarnival
Photographs by Unsplash

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