Canvas Information

What is Canvas?

"Canvas is not just a product. It's a breath of fresh air, it's an educational revolution. It's a powerful new way to pardon our optimism-change the world. It's a rapidly growing company with an industry-pushing platform, 400+ talented employees, and millions of passionate students and teachers. And, sure, there's also a pretty incredible product in there, too." -Canvas by Instructure

In less marketing terms: Canvas is a product allowing for greater interaction between student, teachers and parents. Canvas provides one place for students to see all of their classes with an integrated calendar of assignments and due dates. Students are able to turn-in homework, teachers are able grade and provide guidance on assignments and parents are able to see the actual assignment and actual student answers.

Who uses Canvas at Independence Community School District?

Most departments at the Junior Senior High are using Canvas.

Here are several helpful links to help you understand what Canvas is and how it works?

Canvas is the name of the program and Instructure is the name of the company who created the program.

This is a direct link to their website. http://www.instructure.com/k-12/features

Here are several options to help you learn about Canvas?

The Instructure website provides information about the company and provides general overview of what the program is capable of and how it generally works. http://www.instructure.com/k-12/features

Students will primarily learn about Canvas from classroom instruction as teachers develop their courses and provide instruction to students.

Teachers have received professional training by Instructure and spent their own time learning about Canvas.

Instructure has a helpful and updated site to learn about the features of Canvas: https://community.canvaslms.com/welcome

Instructure also has created a series of YouTube instructional videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EGrSFYHDag&list=PL0C53CD7938F56215.

Parents:

Please use this website for instructions https://sites.google.com/a/independence.k12.ia.us/canvas-by-instructure/about