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Canvas LMS Course Design

Canvas LMS Course Design

By : Ryan John
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Canvas LMS Course Design

Canvas LMS Course Design

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By: Ryan John
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Overview of this book

This book is intended for educators who want to use Canvas to enhance their teaching or for educators whose institution has adopted Canvas as its learning management system. Whether you are brand new to online learning or you are a seasoned expert, you will be able to master both the basic functions and the advanced features of Canvas with this book.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Getting Started with Canvas
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1. Getting Started with Canvas
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Types of Canvas accounts
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Accessing Canvas and creating your account
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Navigating Canvas – the dashboard
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Adjusting your profile, settings, and notifications
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Creating your Canvas course
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2. Building Your Canvas Course
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2. Building Your Canvas Course
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Exploring the Course Setup Checklist
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Planning your course – from syllabus to screen
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Importing content from another course
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Adding assignments and content
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Using the Rich Content Editor
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Editing an assignment – adding content
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Creating different types of assignments
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Creating assignment groups
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3. Getting Ready to Launch Your Course
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3. Getting Ready to Launch Your Course
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Adding participants to the course
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Selecting navigation links
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Choosing a course home page layout
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Adding course calendar events
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Testing your course with Student View
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Publishing your course
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4. Teaching Your Canvas Course
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4. Teaching Your Canvas Course
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Communicating through Conversations
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Posting announcements
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Using the Gradebook
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Setting up synchronous meetings using Conferences
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5. Exploring Special Features
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5. Exploring Special Features
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Using Canvas on your mobile devices
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Creating Collaborations
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Setting up Outcomes
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Creating Rubrics and using Outcomes
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Integrating outside apps into your course
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Using Course Analytics and Course Statistics
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6. Where to Go for Help
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6. Where to Go for Help
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Finding help within Canvas
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Finding help outside Canvas
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7. Now You're Ready!
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7. Now You're Ready!
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Exporting your course
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Connecting Canvas to education in the 21st century
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A. References and Resources
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A. References and Resources
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Teaching and learning in the 21st century
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Designing online learning environments
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Conceptualizing online education
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Other online course design resources
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Index
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Index

Exploring the Course Setup Checklist

When you click on your newly created course (remember that it's listed under Courses on the top-left menu of the dashboard), you will be taken to the home page of your new course. By default, you will see the Next Steps checklist appear at the bottom of your screen with a number of options listed for setting up your course. This checklist is a guide that helps you make sure that all of the essential elements of your course are up and running before you publish the course and allow students to access the content. The Next Steps checklist is shown in the following screenshot:

If you hover your mouse over the options in the Next Steps checklist, you will notice that a description of each option appears on the right-hand side.

Tip

Throughout Canvas, you can often hover your mouse over links or icons to learn more about how they work and what they do.

If you click on the X in the top-right corner of the Next Steps checklist, the checklist will disappear from your...

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