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What is Canvas Help and when do I use it?
How do I get help with Canvas as an instructor? Canvas Guide
What can Carrie & Abby do for you?
While we are able and happy to answer those technical questions in Canvas, our teacher leader role is more designed to assist you with the actual integration of Canvas into your curriculum, for example:
- how to utilize the Google Docs Cloud Assignment and other various Canvas integrations, such as Nearpod, NBC Learn, Newsela, etc.
- differentiation, using Mastery Paths.
- working with your PLC to develop projects.
- homepage creation.
- making Canvas student-friendly.
- and so much more!
New Gradebook Icons
With a new gradebook, comes new learning on how that gradebook is organized and notifies you of events and things to do. Here is a quick guide to all the new gradebook icons.
Assignment Icon
Status Color Indicators
Grading Type Icons
Black Warning Icon
Red Warning Icon
Grade Detail Tray
Be sure to log in with your @wdmcs.org email to view the recorded webinar.
Try something new in Canvas!
Elementary
- Look at examples of ways some Elementary teachers use Canvas in your building if you are using Canvas, share with your fellow teachers
- Log in to Canvas and look around (you can't break anything, just click on stuff)
- Star or unstar courses on your dashboard
- Use the help menu to answer a question you have
Secondary
- Grade one essential life skill and see how it populates in the Learning Mastery Gradebook
- Use a help menu option to answer a question you have
- Check your "People" tab to see how many parent observers are in your course
- Personally invite one parent to be an observer of their student in Canvas (Sidenote: once the parents are in, they’re in until the student graduates!)
Vote for these Feature Suggestions!!
Please take a minute to "vote up" for these feature suggestions that WDMCS staff have found or suggested to Canvas. Remember, you need to click "log in" at the top right for your vote to count.
Want to learn more about Canvas?
Abby Cunningham
Email: cunninghama@wdmcs.org
Website: http://www.wdmcs.org
Location: 3550 Mills Civic Parkway, West Des Moines, IA, USA
Phone: (515)633-4545
Twitter: @mrs_c_ham
Carrie Jacobs
Email: jacobsc@wdmcs.org
Website: http://www.wdmcs.org
Location: 3550 Mills Civic Parkway, West Des Moines, IA, USA
Phone: (515)633-5159
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thetiedyedteacher/
Twitter: @tiedyedteacher