1. Introduction to the CANVAS LMS

2. Logging In and Looking Around
Do you see all of your
Powerschool
Courses?
Do you have a
“Start a New Course”
Button?
Renaming your Course
Cards and changing
Their color.
Left Navigation

3. Cleaning Up Your Courses
You can hide courses like Homeroom, Recess,
Work and Study Habits to keep your Dashboard
Streamlined.
Click on “All Courses” and then star or unstar each
To hide or display them.
This is really convenient after a few years of enrolling
In various CANVAS courses yourself for PD or other reasons!!!

4. Let’s Dive In!!!! CANVAS encourages you To create Modules right from
The start. Modules help you
Organize your course. I tend
to use modules as units of study.
Mrs. Rapier
gives each Module the title of
a book they’ll read and study.
Add existing content is for
Those who are moving
Material from another LMS
To CANVAS.
Look at the navigation links o
Left-even though
they are grayed
out you can still click on them.

5. Let’s Add a Module! Publish Everything If You Want Your Students
To See it!!!
Now’s a good
Time to talk
about Student
View in
Settings…

6. Let’s Add An Assignment!
Yes, you can add things
Like Quizzes and Discussions.
Feel free to play around.
Today let’s stick with an
Assignment.
Don’t forget to Publish!!!!

7. Creating Your Assignment…
Lot’s of Options Here:
Those tabs on the right.
Kind of like a word processer.
How do you want kids to show their learning?
Let’s look at that student view
Again-It’s in Settings

8. The CANVAS Commons Feel free to search the Commons
For assignments, modules, even
Entire courses you can pull in
To your CANVAS account.
Currently we are looking for all of the
“Words Their Way” Sorts and Such to
Create a CANVAS course for us!
I won’t go in to detail about it today, but
Feel free to look in there and see what
All is available.
Feeling adventurous-go to the Help
Feature and click on CANVAS Guides
To learn how to import!

9. Invite Me To Your Classroom
I did 3 CANVAS lessons with several teachers over the course of a week last year.
The “Help” feature.
Courses in “the Commons” like Kungfu CANVAS you can enroll in to learn own your own.