Canvas Basics

Amy Dawn

Language Arts Teacher, PL Champ

Skyview Middle

adawn@kpbsd.k12.ak.us

Norms...

• Mute when not speaking
• Engage in the meeting
• Be responsive to prompts
• Have an open mind

• Go to https://kpbsd.instructure.com/
• Click on Courses
• Find the course you wish to work on
• Click on it

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• Go to Canvas

• Choose course
• Click + module
• Name your first module (ie. week 1 distance learning)
• Lock until date you would like to students to see it
• Publish right away
• Repeat for the rest of your modules for the quarter

Modules

• Go to another course that you would like to bring into the course you were just working on
• Go to settings a the bottom left
• Click on sections on the top menu in the middle
• Click on the section name that is highlighted blue
• Click “Cross-list this section”
• Type in the name of the original course
• Click cross-list
• Then return to the original course

Cross List Section

• Now all work that you do on this course will be applied to all students in all sections
• Click the + on the top right of the module you would like to add content to
• Use the drop down menu to choose type
• Click link URL to add a document from google drive or a video from youtube
• Click Assignment to add an assignment
• Choose due date
• Choose submission type
• Click “include assignment when syncing”
• Choose lock until date
• Choose due date
• Click discussion to add an assignment

Adding Content

• On the left hand side about half way down click people
• At the top right click +People
• Type in your admins e-mail
• In the drop down choose observer
• Click add

*Can also be done to add a teacher, if you and a colleague would like to share a course as you are teaching the same thing.

Add an observers

Questions...