1. Canvas LMS
LEMS 2015

2. What is Canvas? Canvas is a Learning Management System.
a way to simplify teaching and learning by connecting all the digital tools teachers use in one place.
Canvas

3. What Can Canvas Do For You?
Teachers communicate with students
Students communicate with students
Create modules to organize
content
discussions
assignments
quizzes
files
external links

4. Canvas Interface/User Dashboard
First thing you will see when you login to Canvas.
User Dashboard, which consists of four parts
Global Stream
Sidebar
Help Center
Global Navigation
Video

5. Session 1
The Beginning

6. Logging In: Go to https://hcpss.instructure.com/login
Please do NOT use Internet Explorer.
Use Chrome, Firefox, or Safari
Go to
Log in using your current Username and Password

7. Courses: Click on “Courses” at the top of your screen
Bellringer
Activity
Click on “Courses” at the top of your screen
Select the 90 Minute HCPSS Canvas Training course for the list
On the Home Page, click on “Today’s Agenda”
On the Agenda Page, click on the “Bell Ringer Discussion”
Reply to the questions on the discussion

8. The Canvas Interface Main Interface Grades Commons Calendar Courses
-A learning object repository
-Enables educators to find, import, and share resources
-Recent Activity
-Announcements
-Discussions
-Coming Up
-Calendar Link
-This is where you enter grades for the courses you are teaching
-Multiple calendars for your courses, curriculum community,
-Courses you create
-Your curriculum community

9. Settings: Full Name/Display Name/Sortable Name Adding Email Accounts
Adding Cell Phone
Adding a Picture

10. What’s in a name?
Your name!

11. You can modify how often you receive notifications from Canvas
ASAP
Daily
Weekly
None

12. You want to know when?

13. Session 2
HCPSS Communities

14. Enroll in a Community

15. Enrolling in a Community
Go to Today’s Agenda in 90 Minute HCPSS Canvas Training
Click on Community Catalog on the left side of the screen
Open the URL and find your curricular community
Select Self-Paced Free
Stop and wait for instructions!

16. STOP HERE!

18. Inbox vs. Announcements
A way to send and receive messages inside Canvas
It can be linked to other services
Announcements are from instructors to students in their courses only
In your community, only an instructor can make an announcement

19. Calendar
Calendar Video

20. Discussions
Allows instructors and students to start and contribute to as many discussion topics as desired
Discussions can also be created as an assignment for grading purposes (and seamlessly integrated with the Canvas Gradebook)
Discussions can be used to help students start thinking about an upcoming assignment or class discussion or as a follow-up on a conversation or questions that began in a face-to-face classroom.
It can be used to test student comprehension of important points made in class, debate contradictory ideas, or brainstorm different approaches to a class problem.
Discussions are not the same as Announcements.

21. “Can You Find?” Activity

22. Session 3 Building a Home Page Home Page Template
Publish/Not Published
Attendance Overview
Canvas Support
How Do I? Activity
Building a Home Page

23. Log in to Canvas

24. 90 minute HCPSS Training Course

25. HCPSS Page Templates