Canvas

Canvas LMS is available for teachers and students in grades 7 through 12.

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What is Canvas?

Canvas LMS is an open and reliable web-based software that allows institutions to manage digital learning, educators to create and present online learning materials and assess student learning, and students to engage in courses and receive feedback about skill development and learning achievement.

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Canvas Overview

Course Creation

Course HoMe Page Customization

Assignment Overview

Gradebook Overview

Course Content Import

Ouizzes Overview

New quizzes Overview

Modules overview

Syllabus

Help for Instructors

Main Canvas Help Site

Canvas Live Chat and Phone Support Line - available through the Help Menu in Canvas

Dashboard, Courses, & Navigation

Navigating the Dashboard (5 min)

Global Notifications and Settings (3 min)

Recommended Course Settings

Sending Canvas Inbox Messages to your Email

Gradebook and Grade Sync

Create a Grading Scheme

Using Gradebook?

Using SpeedGrader

Using Rubrics with Assignments

Pushing Grades from Canvas to Aeries

Using Quizzes and Surveys for Attendance

Why Are Grades Different in Canvas and Aeries?

Viewing Inactive Students in your Canvas Gradebook

Managing Students, Teachers and Parents

How do I Cross-List a Section in a Course?

WARNING! Doing this will NOT move student grades or work to the new class. Only do this BEFORE students submit assignments, or if you are prepared to hand-enter students' grades in the new class.

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How to Add an Aide or Co-Teacher to a Canvas Class

Permissions for Teachers, Substitutes, and IA's

Getting "Pairing Codes" for Parents to be Observers

Home Hospital Instructions

How to Allow or Prevent Students in Class After End of Term

Building Content with a Class

Copy Items from One Class to Another

How to Design Effective Canvas Modules

Importing Materials from Canvas Commons

Using Student View to Check your Class (3min)

Numeric and Formula Question Types in New Quizzes

Using the Rich Content Editor

Practices for Universal Design Principles into Your Canvas Courses

Using Quizzes and Surveys in Canvas

Student Annotation Assignment Type

Course Design Checklist

Mobile App Checklist

Integrated Apps and Websites

Apps that are integrated into Canvas

Using IXL within Canvas

Integration with Savvas (Pearson) Course Content

How to Assign a formative through Canvas

Canvas Grade Passback with formative

How to use formative with Canvas (3:38)

Using EdPuzzle within Canvas

GraphBuilder with Canvas

Desmos Graphs with Canvas

Equatio with Canvas

Embedding Content from a Website Directly into Canvas

Turnitin with Canvas

Help for Students & parents

Canvas Mobile Apps

Students

Getting Started: Canvas Overview (4 min)

Getting Started: Dashboard Overview (4 min)

Getting Started: Assignments (2 min)

Getting Started: Assignment Submissions (3 min)

Getting Started: Discussions (3 min)

All Help Articles for Students

Parents

How do Parents Log In to Canvas?

Getting Started: Parents (4 min)

Instructions for the App (4 min)

All svusd canvas documents

Canvas LMS Tutorials for Online Teaching

Ashlee Espinosa is a teacher, coach, and actor who has been teaching online for years, at UC Irvine and other schools. Starting with the shutdown in March of 2020, she began creating a series of videos to help teachers get started with Canvas LMS. They combine instructions for using Canvas with advice for online teaching. Take some time to explore these great video resources.

Canvas Videos from Hacienda La Puente USD

The EdTech team at Hacienda La Puente has assembled a variety of helpful videos on using Canvas, including some on integrations with Google and with Aeries. Not every video applies perfectly to SVUSD, but most of them do. Take a look and see what they've put together for their teachers.

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