• Canvas Success Model and Canvas Success Checklist  | Gives school leadership and stakeholders a process and tools for leading the people side of your change to Canvas. If followed, this model will help you increase the speed of adoption and optimize utilization.
  
  

• Admin Courses: These courses have been designed for Canvas Root Account Administrators (Admins) and Sub-account Admins to learn about how to manage their Canvas environment. The courses organizes the Canvas Guides and Video Guides in an easy to consume format and order.

  • Learning Pathway in the Training Service Portal: Setting Up Your K12 Instance

  • Admin Canvas Course: Be the Hero Canvas Admin Training Course
    
    

• Admin Checklists | A comprehensive tool that will elevate Canvas instances and set institutes on a course for success.

• Admin User Group  |  A free group of thousands of fellow Canvas admins where you can ask question or search posts to see how other institutes are using Canvas to meet their unique needs.

The following webinar and webinar handout also cover these topics:

• Parents in Canvas Webinar

• Parents in Canvas Webinar Handout

There are two general options for granting parent access to Canvas.  The resources below will allow you to learn about these and determine which solution best meets your unique needs.  If you ever want to pull a list of observers and the students they are observing, the Parent Observer List Video will walk you through how to do this.

Option 1: Parent self-registration

• Parent Registration

• How do I generate a pairing code for an observer as an instructor?

• How do I generate a pairing code for an observer as a student?

• Pairing codes FAQ
  
  

Please Note: If you use this method, you’ll want to ensure that in your Authentication settings you have Canvas Self Registration set to Observer Accounts Only.  If this is marked as Disabled, then observer codes will not be able to be generated.

Option 2: Admin-provisioned parent access

• Use CSVs to add Parents

• How do I format CSV text files for uploading SIS data into a Canvas account?

• You will need to create two CSVs:

  • 1) Add Parents as Users in Canvas

  • 2) Pair the parents with their student(s) 

  • If you are not confident with CSVs, we encourage you to upload it into your Test/Beta instance first

  • There is a training in the Training Services Portal that explains CSVs
    
    

How Parents Can Access Canvas 

Parents can log into Canvas through the browser or the Canvas Parent App.  Each one will offer a different experience so we recommend showing your parents how to log into one or the other. The Canvas Parent App vs. The Observer Role comparison chart will help you determine which one you think will be best for your institute. 

Please Note: If your institute uses authentication with your students, then if your parents use the Parent App you’ll want to contact your CSM team to create app login for the Parent App that doesn’t require authentication.  If your parents will use the Canvas browser, then you will want to consider creating a Discovery Page for your institute so your parents can access Canvas through the web browser. The Why a discovery page? Also, what is a discovery page? guide from the Canvas Community will outline what a discovery page is in more detail and how to set it up.

Roll Call Attendance Tool 

The tool native to Canvas is the Roll Call Attendance tool, which can be enabled in your instance. Here a few guides to get started using it:

• What is the Roll Call Attendance Tool?

• How do I use Roll Call Attendance tool in a course? 

• How do I take roll call using the Attendance tool? 

• How do I run Roll Call Attendance reports in a course? 

Admin Level Reporting

The User Course Access Log is the most comprehensive report and has activity fields by course, role, and date/time. To get started with pulling account level reports, check out this guide: How do I view reports for an account?

Course Level Reporting

One option is to have teachers assign a daily attendance/participation quiz/survey or activity that students have to respond to for attendance. Some also make daily lessons so they can look at access data in their class daily to see which students actively participated.

Having students progress through Module Requirements is another good way to ensure they are meeting the requirement for class participation each day or week. 

Here is a guide on how to view a daily access report for the class (you or the instructor would have to run and check end of each day): Obtaining and using Access Report data for an entire course

If you have New Analytics enabled in your account/course, this feature can be helpful to see ‘weekly’ participation in activities: What are Analytics?