Note: The target audience for each page or section is in brackets.
Home [For Students and Learning Coaches] -- The home page of this course. Consider bookmarking the page for an easy return to the course.
Introduction [For Students and Learning Coaches] -- Kicks things off with a brief overview of UVA and how this onboarding course will help you prepare.
Course Outline [For Students and Learning Coaches] -- This page. :-)
Important Tips and Information [For Students and Learning Coaches] -- Provides a list of helpful tips, information, and explanations about what is happening at UVA while you are onboarding. This page should answer quite a few questions that new families tend to have when getting started.
Phase I (Orientation) [For Students and Learning Coaches]
Presents a series of videos and a few downloadable files that provide:
An overview of your new school
A look at the student experience (i.e., the typical daily workload, what is expected of a student to be in good standing with the school, our grading scale, enrichment opportunities and incentives for positive student behavior and engagement in school)
The school calendar
An introduction to the Learning Coach role, including two presentations by experienced Learning Coaches. (This part of Phase I is intended for Learning Coaches only.)
Phase II (Canvas Training) [For Students and Learning Coaches]
Prepares students and Learning Coaches to use Canvas. It includes:
An introductory video about Canvas, our learning platform
Instructions for the student to log in to Canvas
Instructions for the Learning Coach to create the Canvas Observer account or update it to observe additional students
Instructions to navigate to the Canvas training course to learn about the learning platform
A step to notify teachers that student training is complete
Instructions for the Learning Coach to log in to the Canvas Observer account
Phase III (Detailed Learning Coach Training) [Specifically for Learning Coaches]
Provides a References and Resources section with links, downloadable files, and other resources often needed by Learning Coaches during onboarding.
Guides Learning Coaches to Learning Coach Corner, the comprehensive Learning Coach training course and resource where information and training are provided for our Learning Coaches. A Canvas training extension for Learning Coaches is included.
Checkpoints are inserted in the course to check for understanding. Your responses will be automatically scored and you will have an opportunity to review anything that you misunderstood.
Students -- Phase I (~2.5 hours), Phase II (~4 to 5 hours for students in grades 4-12; 3 to 3.5 hours for grades K-3)
Learning Coaches -- Phase I (~3.5 hours), Phase II (~5 to 5.5 hours, including the student's components), Phase III (~2 hours)