Canvas: Conundrum to Convenience

Meeting Norms

1. Be the student you wish you had

2. Keep an open mind

3. Share your ideas

Learning Intentions & Success Criteria

Learning Intentions

• Discover a few tips within Canvas
• Share successful strategies for increasing engagement through Canvas
• Discuss examples for how to use Canvas to support students

Success Criteria

• I know where to find tutorials on how to use helpful features in Canvas.
• I will use strategies to increase in-class engagement and use Canvas to support.

Ten Helpful Canvas Tutorials

• How to import content from your previous year’s course.

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• Do you want to combine courses that have very similar content? That’s an option. It’s called cross-listing. A coach can help you do this.

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• How to embed YouTube videos rather than link them. This will eliminate the ads and keep students in Canvas.

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• Message students who…

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• Match weighted grades in Canvas and Skyward (Not required, but helpful)

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5. Assign to… feature

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6. PDF annotator tool

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7. Embed a Google Document, Spreadsheet, or Slideshow

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8. District Canvas Style Guide

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9. Use templates

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10. Offer yourself and students grace when necessary (aka “Courteous goodwill”)

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Padlet

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What did you do that was successful on Canvas last year?

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Name one way that Canvas can improve accessibility for students.

Name one way that Canvas can improve your instructional practice.

https://padlet.com/jacqueline_ricks/95wl2omwjfekvta3

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Pedagogy

+Content Knowledge

Brainstorm best practices in these categories

Active Learning Spectrum

What do you

notice?

What do you

wonder?

Engagement & Retention

Choose a strategy & share

• Choose an active learning strategy and easy piece of content.

3. Decide how this lesson can be simplified & added to Canvas in <10 minutes of your time.

2. Quickly outline a lesson plan (Teacher does, student does)

4. Share with someone near you.

Our job is to teach the students we have right now. Not the ones we would like to have. Not the ones we used to have. Those we have right now. All of them.

Dr. Kevin Maxwell

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Educational Theme Park 2021-2022

COVID--year 3

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One-to-one Chromebook distribution

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Attendance policies

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New building

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THANKS

Do you have any questions?

Jackie Ricks

jacqueline.ricks@canyonsdistrict.org

801-214-4039

Room 1338

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Departments: English, World Language, PE, SPED, Social Studies, PAWS

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Milo Maughan

milo.maughan@canyonsdistrict.org

801-674-0977

Room 1337

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Departments: CTE, Math, Performing Arts, Science, Visual Arts

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