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Canvas LMS Course Design - Second Edition

By : Ryan John
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Canvas LMS Course Design - Second Edition

By: Ryan John

Overview of this book

Canvas is an online learning management system (LMS) and one of the most powerful teaching tools that educational institutions worldwide have adopted thanks to its streamlined functionality, intuitive user interface, and robust features. This revised second edition of Canvas LMS Course Design will show you how to design, create, and teach engaging classes in online, hybrid, or fusion settings using the Canvas LMS. The book will guide you through the steps of setting up your Canvas account, creating activities and assignments, designing and customizing the course layout, and teaching your course. Whether you're using an institutional or Free-for-Teacher account, you'll be able to use Canvas for grading, feedback, and communication with and between students. As you progress, you'll learn how to integrate external apps and services with Canvas. Finally, the book features an exclusive section detailing how you can use Canvas' built-in resources as well as other resources to tackle challenges while working with the LMS. Throughout, this book will give you the technical knowledge you need to create unique learning experiences for students. By the end of this Canvas LMS Course Design, you'll be able to successfully teach online with the help of logical descriptions and step-by-step screenshots that clearly explain how to build a phenomenal course.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Section 1: Designing and Creating Your Course
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Section 2: Teaching and Enhancing Your Course
9
Section 3: Practical Ideas and Resources

Creating Collaborations

One of the most effective means of fostering student learning and engagement is through group work. Group work empowers students to learn from one another and fosters social connections. The Collaborations feature of Canvas allows you to set up ways in which your students can work together to create documents online. Through two integrated outside web tools, collaborations allow you to set up documents that multiple users can access and edit together in real time from different locations or devices.

Some examples of situations in which you might choose to utilize the Collaborations feature of Canvas might be for planning group projects, full class note-taking, brainstorming ideas, signing up for activities, or writing a group paper to save and submit to a group assignment. In addition to teacher-created collaborations, students can use the Collaborations feature to create their own group documents as well by following the same steps described in this section...