1. 21st Century Professional Development
Welcome to Canvas!
Mitchell
District Training of Trainers
21st Century Professional Development
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2. Session Objectives At the end of this session, you will be able to:
Describe the purpose of Canvas
Assist teachers and staff in accessing and logging in to Canvas
Describe the basic features in a Canvas course
Create a Canvas course for your campus or department
Invite teachers and team members to a Canvas course
Access additional Canvas training webinars and resouces
Describe how to get support with Canvas
Install Canvas Mobile Apps
Session Objectives
These are presented at the start and covered again at the end of the session
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3. Session Agenda Welcome and Introduction (5 min.)
The Canvas Commons – Exploration (5 min.)
Rationale (5 min.)
Get Help and Support (10 min.)
Access the EBR Canvas Site (5 min.)
The Canvas Training Website (10 min.)
Create a Password/Login (10 min.)
PD and PLCs on the Go: Canvas Mobile Apps (5-10 min.)
Sample Canvas Training Course (15 min.)
Q & A and Next Steps (10 min.)
Create a Lesson Planning Course or Team Online PLC (30 min.)
Find EBR Courses (5 min.)
Agenda outline for a 120-minute session delivered in a face-to-face format.
Please modify this agenda and timings to meet the needs your school or team may have.
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4. What is Canvas?
Canvas is a Learning Management System (LMS) for teacher and staff development.
Canvas is intended to bring many tools and resources into one place
Canvas is not replacing face to face meetings and PD; Canvas should be used to augment, enhance, and support face-to-face PLC Meetings and Professional Development.
In our district, teachers will build online lessons for students using Google Classroom.
The vision and purpose of Canvas is to provide a learning and collaboration space for teachers and staff members.
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5. Why Canvas?
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6. Canvas Purpose and Vision
Canvas is designed to provide all EBR employees with professional learning opportunities that are:
High Quality
Ongoing
Relevant
Supported
Timely
Scalable
Characteristics of Successful Professional Development Programs (Guskey, 2000; Darling-Hammond, 2010)
High-quality
Ongoing
Relevant to Daily Work
Supported
Timely and Cost Effective
Scalable
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7. Why Canvas? Time – in face to face PD the time is set
We know that time represents a significant factor
Online/Blended PD Environment – teachers and staff can learn new material at their own pace
In face to face PD, there is little flexibility to extend or expand the available time.
Time on task – impacts the quality and quantity of learning
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8. Why Canvas? Collaboration
In traditional face-to-face PD, if we don’t interact with peers or the instructor during the live session, our opportunities to do so again are often very limited.
Canvas can provide our teachers with many more opportunities to interact with the instructor, peers, or other experts (e.g., content experts). This is critical for implementation of new learning when a face-to-face session is complete.
Ending isolation
Communities of Practice – teachers learning from teachers
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9. Why Canvas? Choice and Flexibility
Teachers survey data clearly indicate that teachers prefer to have choices
The classroom should not look like all learners doing the same thing at all times. Why does Professional Development replicate that model?
Effective models of PD:
Acknowledges experience
Provides flexibility
Includes teacher voice and choice
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10. Accessing Canvas EBR Technology Integration Team
Make the point here that any of the internet browsers on the left side will work.
Internet Explorer will not allow all of the features of Canvas to work properly, so don’t use it.
First thing to ask fellow staff members who mention that Canvas doesn’t work is: Are you using Internet Explorer?
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11. Use a Modern Internet Browser
Yes!
No!
Make the point here that any of the internet browsers on the left side will work.
Internet Explorer will not allow all of the features of Canvas to work properly, so don’t use it.
First thing to ask fellow staff members who mention that Canvas doesn’t work is: Are you using Internet Explorer?
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12. https://ebrschools.instructure.com The EBR Canvas Website
Instruct users to go to the hyperlink listed on the slide.
Assist users who may have difficulty with this.
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13. Accessing The EBR Canvas Website
Click the “Forgot Password” Link
EBR users should begin by creating their own password.
This will only need to be completed one time.
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14. Setting Up Your Password
Type in your entire EBR address
Click “request password”
Password confirmation will be sent to your EBR
EBR users should begin by creating their own password.
Remind users that in Outlook, they should check their Clutter folder
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15. Setting Up Your Password
Click the in the box from EBR School “Forgot Password: Canvas”
Check “Clutter” if needed
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16. Setting Up Your Password
Click the link in your to set your password.
You should find yourself back at the login page
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17. Login Click the link in your email to set your password.
You should find yourself back at the login page
Log in with your EBR and password just set up
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18. Canvas Accounts New Teachers and Team Members
Can enter their to create a new account at this time
Select “Need a Canvas Account?”
The district Canvas login page is designed to allow a new teacher or team member to request access.
However, duplicate accounts will not be allowed.
This means that teachers who create accounts using multiple s will find that duplicate accounts will be deleted by the district Canvas admins.
When teachers and team members forget their password, they should use the “Forgot Password?” link instead of setting up a new account
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19. Canvas Implementation Tips
Please Consider…
Adding a quick link to Canvas to your school or department webpage
Posting signs with the district Canvas website url visible until teachers and staff become familiar with it
Sharing the hyperlink in an
Share the Accessing Canvas handout via
When EBR implemented OnCourse in 2013, the PD and the IT departments received hundreds of phone calls from schools asking one simple question:
Oncourse….How do we get to that website?
Ensuring that teachers and staff know where to go online to access Canvas greatly reduce employee frustration and confusion with change and new programs.
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20. Canvas: Experience a Course
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21. Canvas Sample Course EBR Technology Integration Team
Take the participants into Canvas Sample Training Course that has been copied into your school’s account.
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22. Canvas Sample Course EBR Technology Integration Team
Trainers: Enroll participants into Canvas Sample Training Course
Allow participants to click the “courses button”, ‘Browse More Courses” and then “Join This Course”
Allow “students” to take the bell-ringer quiz, then move through activities.
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23. New Course Creation EBR Technology Integration Team
1. From the Dashboard, select “Start a New Course” on the bottom left
2. On the Courses page, click the +Course Button
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24. Create a New Course EBR Technology Integration Team
1. From the Dashboard, select “Start a New Course” on the bottom left
2. On the Courses page, click the +Course Button
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25. Canvas Course Settings
Creating an Assignment
Click the “Assignment” link on the left side
Click the +Assignment button on the right side
Give the assignment a name.
Notice that you can link to a file you have uploaded, such as a lesson plan template
You can also type directions into an assignment box.
Keep in mind that nothing is published until you publish it.
Notice some of the features….an assignment can include a You Tube Video, an image, or a hyperlink to a website.
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26. Create a New Assignment
Creating an Assignment
Click the “Assignment” link on the left side
Click the +Assignment button on the right side
Give the assignment a name.
Notice that you can link to a file you have uploaded, such as a lesson plan template
You can also type directions into an assignment box.
Notice some of the features….an assignment can include a You Tube Video, an image, or a hyperlink to a website.
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27. Find District Courses EBR Technology Integration Team
Select the “Browse Courses” link to see courses open to all teachers and staff in the district.
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28. The Canvas Commons
The Canvas Commons is a community of Canvas users sharing resources. Since Canvas has many users, worldwide, resources on many topics can be found here.

29. Get Canvas Help and Support
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30. Canvas Support – Telephone and Chat
Click the “Help” Button at the left
EBR has a phone line dedicated to Canvas Support:
Chat with Canvas Support
The Canvas Guides
Highlight each of the different ways that schools can access Canvas support.
Emphasize that the purpose of all of these different layers of support is designed not to confuse, but to ensure that some kind of support is available at all times.
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31. Support - New Users
What do we do when new teachers are hired? What if we have a long-term substitute and we want to provide access to lesson planning resources and PD?
Contact your district admins to request an account.
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32. Support – Teacher Cannot Log In
Q. How do I help a staff member who cannot log in to Canvas?
Have the staff member select the “Forgot Password” Link on the Login Page. Talk them through retrieval of their password through EBR work .
If the above support does not work, call the Canvas Support Line
Mitchell
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33. Support – Your Canvas District Admins
Brunetta Adams,
Karla Kiper,
Robbyn Wax,
Four EBR employees will support Canvas as we implement: Brunetta Adams, Karla Kiper, and Robbyn Wax.
Mr. Owen Spaur works in DTS and supports Canvas on the technical side.
If requesting help in Canvas or reviewing help Guides in the program doesn’t get an issue resolved, schools should reach out to us.
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34. Canvas Webinars Create an account EBR Technology Integration Team
Canvas provides webinars on all topics each day.
Webinars are frequently repeated.
To sign up for training webinars, set up an account on the training site.
Webinars are available to all users.
Create an account
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35. Canvas Video Tutorials
Click “Help”
Select Search the Canvas Guides
Check out the Video Guides
Another source we have access to are the Canvas Video tutorials.
These can be accessed by clicking the “Help” button
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36. PD on the Go! Canvas Mobile Apps
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37. Canvas – iOS App
Download the iOS App here Be sure to add the district’s url…. ebrschools.instructure.com
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38. Canvas – Google Play
Download the Android App here Be sure to add the district’s url…. ebrschools.instructure.com
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39. Canvas – Mobile App for Windows
Download the Windows Mobile App for Canvas Add the district’s Canvas url: ebrschools.instructure.com
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40. Session Objectives In this session we covered:
Describing the purpose of Canvas
Assisting teachers and staff in accessing and logging in to Canvas
The basic features in a Canvas course
Creating a Canvas course for your campus or department
Inviting teachers and team members to a Canvas course
Accessing additional Canvas training webinars and resouces
How to get support with Canvas
Installing Canvas Mobile Apps
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41. Session Evaluation
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42. Next Steps
“The best part of learning is sharing what you know.”  ― Vaughn K. Lauer
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