{"id":575,"date":"2020-05-13T16:07:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T00:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/etm\/?page_id=575"},"modified":"2020-05-15T09:26:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:26:58","slug":"more-about-canvas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/etm\/more-about-canvas\/","title":{"rendered":"More about Canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\"><li>ETM\u2019s wiki has instructions for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.spu.edu\/display\/ETMH\/Getting+Started+in+Canvas\">how to log into Canvas<\/a>&nbsp;as well as a brief overview of Canvas basics.<\/li><li>Basic elements of a Canvas course<ul><li>Modules:&nbsp;&nbsp;To take full advantage of all that Canvas offers, we recommend using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/docs\/DOC-10460-canvas-instructor-guide-table-of-contents#jive_content_id_Modules\">modules<\/a>&nbsp;to set up your course.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Modules offer a path through your course that can help prevent student confusion.&nbsp;&nbsp;One way to set up your modules is by weeks (Week 1, Week 2, etc.).&nbsp;&nbsp;This has the advantage of making each week\u2019s tasks clear to students.&nbsp;&nbsp;Once your modules are set up, you can then organize the various elements of your course (assignments, quizzes, pages, discussions, and files) within your modules.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Pages:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/docs\/DOC-10460-canvas-instructor-guide-table-of-contents#jive_content_id_Pages\">Pages<\/a>&nbsp;are where you communicate content through text, images, video, and slideshows.<\/li><li>Assignments:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.spu.edu\/display\/ETMH\/Creating+Assignments\">Assignments<\/a>&nbsp;are where you can communicate assignment details (including rubrics) to students, and where students can turn in work.&nbsp;&nbsp;Work can be submitted as text, file uploads, video, audio, and web urls.<\/li><li>Quizzes:&nbsp;&nbsp;You can use&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.spu.edu\/display\/ETMH\/Quizzes+in+Canvas\">quizzes<\/a>&nbsp;for assessment and for surveys.<\/li><li>Discussions:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.spu.edu\/display\/ETMH\/Discussions+in+Canvas\">Discussions<\/a>&nbsp;provide opportunities for students to interact with each other and with their instructor. Options include small group discussions, graded discussions, rubrics for discussions, and discussion replies that include image, audio, and visual components.<\/li><li>Files:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/docs\/DOC-10460-canvas-instructor-guide-table-of-contents#jive_content_id_Files\">Files<\/a>&nbsp;is an area in Canvas where you can store documents.&nbsp;&nbsp;While this storage area is useful for you as an instructor,&nbsp;<strong>we strongly recommend that your students access your files via modules, not via the files tab<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;To do this, you can create a page in the module with a hyperlink to a file, and on the page you can provide context for the file.&nbsp;&nbsp;This makes it clear when to read a file, which file to read, and why the file is significant.&nbsp;&nbsp;We suggest removing the \u201cFiles\u201d tab from student navigation.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.spu.edu\/display\/ETMH\/Grading+in+Canvas\">Grading<\/a>:&nbsp;&nbsp;Canvas offers a gradebook and a function called SpeedGrader which allows you to do most of your grading right in Canvas. Assignments and graded discussions will automatically be added to the gradebook. Speedgrader even has a feature that allows you to annotate student work, right within Canvas!<\/li><li>You can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.spu.edu\/display\/ETMH\/Importing+Course+Content+in+Canvas\">import course content<\/a>&nbsp;into Canvas.&nbsp;&nbsp;You can import either part of an existing course or the whole course.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Don\u2019t forget to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.spu.edu\/display\/ETMH\/Publishing+Course+Content\">publish<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you don\u2019t publish it, your students can\u2019t see it!<\/li><li>There are many other teaching and learning tools connected to Canvas.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>More information coming soon!<\/em><\/li><li>Each SPU faculty member has a Canvas sandbox&#8211;you can use this to play around with Canvas and see what it can do. You can find your sandbox on your dashboard after you log in.&nbsp;<\/li><li>ETM has created a Remote Teaching Template which shows you what a Canvas course can look like and which provides you with lots of information that you can share with your students about studying online at SPU. To import this template into your course: find your course, select \u201cimport from Commons\u201d on the right side of the screen, click \u201cfilter,\u201d click toggle to \u201cOnly Seattle Pacific University Approved Resources,\u201d click the x to close the filter, click the course titled \u201cRemote Teaching Template,\u201d click the check box next to the course, you want to import the template into, click&nbsp;\u201cImport into course.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.spu.edu\/display\/ETMH\/Canvas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ETM\u2019s wiki<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/docs\/DOC-10460-canvas-instructor-guide-table-of-contents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Canvas&nbsp;Instructor Guide<\/a>&nbsp;offers detailed information on a broad range of topics&nbsp;<\/li><li>ETM offers a self-paced course about Canvas titled \u201cGrowing with Canvas.\u201d&nbsp; If you\u2019d like to be enrolled in this course, please email&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:etmhelp@spu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">etmhelp@spu.edu<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ETM\u2019s wiki has instructions for&nbsp;how to log into Canvas&nbsp;as well as a brief overview of Canvas basics. Basic elements of a Canvas course Modules:&nbsp;&nbsp;To take full advantage of all that Canvas offers, we recommend using&nbsp;modules&nbsp;to set up your course.&nbsp;&nbsp; Modules offer a path through your course that can help prevent student confusion.&nbsp;&nbsp;One way to set up your modules is by<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/etm\/more-about-canvas\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-575","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/etm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/etm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/etm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/etm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/etm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/etm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/etm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/575\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholars.spu.edu\/etm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}