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Canvas for ALL

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Amy Everhart

@MrsEverhart1

#LPSelma Special Education Coordinator

Canvassador

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Barb Miller

@Mrs_Mill_22

#LPSelma

6-8 Special Education Teacher

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What We Will Cover

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Accessibility Checker

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Layout

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Design

  • Simple, clean, uncluttered
  • Short paragraphs
    • Easier to scan
  • Headings
    • Use Heading font NOT size

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Font

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Avoid comic sans and handwriting fonts

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Stick to sans serif fonts, they are easier to read

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Color Choice

BAD

Yellow

Pale Colors

Orange

Pink

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BETTER

Very Dark Grey

Black

GOOD

Blue

Dark Green

Purple

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Canvas Buttons

Appealing Home Page

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Sign up for a Canva account

https://www.canva.com/

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Canva Steps

  • Use Custom Dimensions 250 x 250
  • Design
  • Elements → Icons
  • Click image to insert
    • Click image to change color
    • Add text, background, etc.
  • Download (PNG)
  • Save (Drive)

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Canvas

  • Edit
  • Insert Table
  • Upload New Image
  • Drag & Drop Image
  • Click image to highlight
  • Link
  • Save

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Home page

  • Home
  • Choose Home Page
    • Pages Front Page
    • Choose Page
  • Save

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Navigation

  • Course Settings
  • Navigation
  • Drag & Drop
    • “Will redirect to homepage” has to stay at top if linked
  • Save

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This is the

beginning of anything

you want....

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Create Course

Teacher of Record

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Create Course

Teacher of Record

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Calendar

Organization

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Canvas Calendar

  • Requires Due Date
  • Month View
    • Organized by due date
    • Color coded by class

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Student Calendar

  • Students can add their own now
    • Calendar
    • +
    • My To Do
    • Choose Course

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To Do List

  • Prioritizes
    • To Do (Soonest/Past Due)
    • Coming Up (Next)
    • Mark When Done to Remove

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Media Recorder

Media Recorder

Simple Audio Recorder

QuickTime

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Uses

Teacher

  • Verbal directions
  • Testing accommodations
  • Oral feedback
  • Sub plans

Student

  • Band recording
  • PE demonstration
  • Fluency read
  • Dictation

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See A Spinning Wheel?

  • Chrome
  • Lock
  • Site Settings
  • Flash
  • Allow

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This will actually pull the videos up in Speedgrader instead of putting a link in Speedgrader that teachers have to click!!!

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Videos

Doceri

Explain Everything

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Doceri & Explain Everything

  1. Audio and visual instructions.
  2. Quick tutorial for students and parents to reference when at home.
  3. Peer to Peer teaching
  4. More 1 on 1 time with students

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Cloud Assignments

Automatically Creates Copy of Doc, Sheet, or Slide for Students

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Cloud Assignments

  • Creates a copy of the file in their Drive
  • Student completes
  • Submit
    • PDF of that file at that moment

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Find the steps here

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If you don’t see Cloud Assignments

  • In a Course, go to Settings
  • Apps
  • Filter by Name: Google
  • Click Google Apps
  • Under Installation Instructions: Click here
  • Open Canvas in another tab on your browser
  • Generate LTI Key & Secret
  • In Canvas, click Add App
  • Copy Key & Secret
  • Add App

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  • You will need to do this in each course if not turned on at the district level

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Modules

Organization

Mastery

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Our process is easy

Create Module

Add

(& create) Item

Set Requirements

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Modules

  • +Module
    • Name
  • Under that module, +
  • Choose Item
    • Drop down (Assignment, quiz, etc.)
    • Can choose “New _____”
  • Add Item

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Requirements

  • Module Name → Edit
  • Add Prerequisite
    • Complete module before this one gets unlocked
  • Add Requirement
    • Do in sequential order
    • View
    • Mark as done
    • Submit
    • Score at least

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External Apps

Integrate tools into Canvas

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External Apps

  • Redirect Link
  • Quizlet
  • Flipgrid
  • CK-12
  • BrainPop
  • YouTube
  • Funbrain
  • Graph Builder
  • Khan Academy
  • So many more in app list!

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To Get External Apps

  • Go into course
  • Click on settings on the left at the bottom
  • Click on apps tab
  • Search apps
  • Click +App
    • Watch for Keys or Secret Passwords

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Redirect Link

  • Name of Site
  • Paste URL
  • Force open in new tab
  • Show in Course Navigation
  • Add App

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  • Can use multiple times
  • Use for frequently used apps
    • OR create a button

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Questions?

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Thank You!

If you have additional questions, you can find us on Twitter

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@Mrs_Mill_22

@MrsEverhart1