CANVAS WEEK 3 Outline for Canvas Klatch #3

USER MANAGEMENT  Add a user to your course  Course page ->  People ->  + people ->  Enter student ID number ->  Next -> SEE STUDENT NAME ->  Continue + Add  DO NOT ADD STUDENT S  Only add students who have accounts in the system. This means when you enter the student ID # their name comes up.

GROUPS  You can create a GROUP SET for various assignments which have different groups in each set.  Create GROUP SET  Go to Group Set and then create GROUPS.  Add students to the Groups  Use the GROUP SET for activities

CALENDAR EVENT  Go to Class HOME PAGE  Click View Calendar on right side  Be sure only that class is checked to schedule only for that class  Add event  Submit assignment – link to calendar event and comment why you added it

INBOX  Basic Canvas Navigation  Select Course  Select Student(s) or other group  Compose a message  Message passes through Canvas to user’s preferred notification  User can respond and it passes back through Canvas to sender’s preferred notification.  Copies are kept in Canvas Inbox

ASYCHRONOUS COMMUNICATIONS  Create the Discussion activity and SAVE IT  Click on the Discussion activity to enter it and then Edit it  Open/close dates  Require posting to see replies from others  Graded / ungraded  Group or not – must create group set first and then select group set  Pin activities by dragging to pinned block or leave in general block or move to closed block.

SYCHRONOUS COMMUNICATIONS  Chat – turned off due to inability to delete content posted  Big Blue Conference – saves for only two weeks  CCC Confer – will be configured shortly  ConferNow – will be built-in shortly