CANVAS @ VCCS

The Virginia Community College System is pleased to share that the VCCS has signed a contract with Instructure making its Canvas platform the formal learning management system for the VCCS colleges and system office.

The Canvas platform along with Arc directly supports the VCCS Strategic Goal: Complete 2021 by creating an opportunity to rethink how VCCS delivers education and engages with students. With a new platform, the role of an LMS shifts as a platform that just manages course documents, quizzes, videos, and more and becomes the platform at the foundation of our digital learning environment that maximizes student success.

CANVAS PROJECT OVERVIEW & INTRODUCTION TO LMS

Recorded July 2018 at the Virginia Western Mini Instructional Technology Conference

Key Events

Fall 2018

  • Seven colleges piloting with a handful of faculty at each

  • Sandbox courses for all faculty

  • Administrator training and orientation

  • Initial training and orientation for faculty and staff

Spring 2019

  • Colleges can choose to run courses live in Canvas

  • Building and transferring course content from Blackboard

  • Concentrated Faculty and Staff Training

  • New Horizons

Summer 2019

  • Canvas becomes our exclusive LMS

  • Go Live with all courses on Canvas

Fall 2019

  • First major semester on Canvas