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Digging Deeper into Canvas
Digging Deeper into Canvas
Waukee CSD 6-12 Canvas Expectations
Waukee CSD 6-12 Canvas Expectations
Waukee CSD 6-12 Canvas Expectations
Waukee CSD 6-12 Canvas Expectations
WCSD's goal is to provide consistency for teachers, students, parents, and guardians as we continue to navigate and use our Waukee Canvas Instructure together.
Please use the Secondary (6-12) Canvas Expectations to help you when creating content for your Canvas courses.
Digging Deeper into Canvas Expectations
Digging Deeper into Canvas Expectations
Modules Formats
Modules Formats
The start of the new year or new term means the start of a new Canvas course. Your templates should already be pre-loaded into your Canvas courses.
Structure and Organization
Modules should be organized by Week
The week is called out at the beginning of the module title.
The unit is included in the module title.
‼️The modules should progress in calendar order, with newer content appearing last.
Modules may include the following content types
Pages
Assignments
Discussion
Quizzes
External URLs
To learn more, navigate to the Insturcture Community's page:
Student Device Management - Canvas Modules & Classroom App
Student Device Management - Canvas Modules & Classroom App
Student Device Management: Using Canvas Modules & Classroom App
By using the Apple Classroom App, you can open and lock students into the Canvas Student app. By adding class websites, assignments, pages, etc. within Modules, if students are locked into the Canvas Student App, they are not able to then fully navigate to Safari.
If a student opens a link (for example: www.nasa.gov) they can navigate to that link and within that website, but not anywhere within Safari. It will open a “web clip” version of the website instead.
Google LTI 1.3.pdfCourse Navigation
Course Navigation
All teachers & courses utilize the same Navigation features.
To align with the Secondary (6-12) Canvas Expectations, we will include the following in that navigation panel.
Home
Announcements
Modules
Discussions
‼️ We do not want grades to be shown in Canvas as PowerSchool is our grade reporting tool.
To learn more, navigate to the Insturcture Community's page:
Pages & How To Embed Google Slides
Pages & How To Embed Google Slides
Publish a File to the Web (Google)
At the top, click File → Share → Publish to web
Choose a publishing option:
Presentation: Choose how quickly to advance the slides.
Click Publish.
Copy the Embed URL
Canvas Rich Content Editor
Within the Canvas Page’s Rich Content Editor, click the Embed icon
Paste the Google Slide’s Embed Code and click Submit
How to Embed Google Slides on a Canvas Page
Assignments & Quizzes
Assignments & Quizzes
Assignments need to be included within your week's module.
Due dates are attached to all assignments & quizzes
This feature automatically syncs assignments to a To-Do List
To learn more, navigate to the Insturcture Community's page:
Canvas Accessibility Checker in Rich Content Editor
Canvas Accessibility Checker in Rich Content Editor
The Rich Content Editor includes an accessibility tool that detects common accessibility errors within the editor.
The Rich Content Editor includes an accessibility tool that detects common accessibility errors within the editor.
You can use the Accessibility Checker to design course content while considering accessibility attributes. This tool only verifies content created within the Rich Content Editor.
You may use other accessibility tools to verify additional content in Canvas. All accessibility components retain the parameters set by your institution's Theme Editor template.
To learn more, navigate to the Insturcture Community's page:
The Accessibility Checker verifies the following accessibility rules:
Adjacent links: Adjacent links with the same URL should be a single link. This rule verifies link errors where the link text may include spaces and break the link into multiple links.
Heading paragraphs: Headings should not contain more than 120 characters.
Image alt text: Images should include an alt attribute describing the image content.
Image alt filename: Image filenames should not be used as the alt attribute describing the image content. Currently, files uploaded directly to Canvas create a redirect that does not properly verify image filenames.
Image alt length: Alt attribute text is recommended to contain fewer than 120 characters.
Large text contrast: Text larger than 18pt (or bold 14pt) should display a minimum contrast ratio of 3:1.
Lists: Lists should be formatted as lists.
Sequential headings: Heading levels should not be skipped (e.g. H2 to H4). However, the tool does not check if the first header starts with H2 or whether the headings are sequential with the rest of the content in the page. Tables do not begin with H1, which is designated for the page title.
Small text contrast: Text smaller than 18pt (or bold 14pt) should display a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1.
Table captions: Tables should include a caption describing the contents of the table.
Table header scope: Table headers should specify scope and the appropriate structure.
Table header: Tables should include at least one header.
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