Canvas Training Updates

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Canvas Training has been updated!

Hall County School District offers many ways to learn about Canvas by Instructure, our learning management system (LMS).

Learn Canvas Face-to-Face

Five iterations of face-to-face training:

  • June 3, 4, 5
  • August 14, 15, 16
  • October 2, 3, 4
  • January 28, 29, 30
  • March 3, 4, 5

Each iteration offers Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced training. Each training contains activities directed by an expert from Canvas and the training contains activities that show participant competence.

Training Descriptions:

Beginning – Course Basics, Canvas Commons, Course Settings, Modules, Creating Content/Accessibility, Communication Tools, Assignments

Intermediate – Assessment Tools, Outcomes and Rubrics, Group Work & Collaboration, Gradebook and Speedgrader.
PREREQUISITE: Beginner Canvas Training or Growing with Canvas in Hall County online course (found in Catalog)

Advanced – Agenda to Include: managing assessments, group work and collaboration – Google and Office, mastery paths, getting starter with Badgr.
PREREQUISITE: Intermediate Canvas Training

Learn Canvas Online, on your Own

Online, Asynchronous Beginners Canvas course. Each month this course offers a way to work through the content on your own. See your BLaST leader for a reminder of how to sign-up in Catalog for a course as needed.

September 2019 Online Course

 

Learn On Demand with Canvas Experts

Canvas Training Support Services

You can watch videos or sign up for future, live webinars. These webinars have one expert who shows you what to do in Canvas and one Canvas expert who runs the chat window answering your questions.

You need to Authorize this, much like you did the first time you used Google within Canvas.

Make sure once you are logged in to look through the Learning Library and Training Calendar (below).  Your My Learning section is a listing of the sessions you have signed up for, with an option to reschedule.

Register for Live Webinars

Ther remain many ways for educators in our district to learn about Canvas.

Follow this blog for more information and to keep up on the latest face-to-face training on our calendar.

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RAZ Plus: Finish the Year Strong!

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Hall County purchases Reading A-Z, RAZ kids, RAZ Plus, and Science A-Z for our elementary schools. There are several ways to learn more about the parent company, Learning A-Z:

  1. Please find below the April schedule for webinars.
  2. Our professional learning representative from Learning A-Z, Angela Romano also offers Teacher Talk, the 2nd Wednesday of every month. https://attendee.gototraining.com/r/3807150668191627266
    Training ID: 458-428-396
  3. Please see Top 10 End of Grade/Course Resources newsletter below.

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Gizmos for Math and Science 6-12

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Gizmos are standards-aligned simulations for math and science classes.  Gizmos are currently purchased for Hall County students in 6-12 grades.

Improved Integration

Starting Fall of 2019, students and staff will have easier login procedures as Hall County’s integration with Explore Learning evolves. Future logins from LaunchPoint will create user account versus a current process where students had to create an account.

New Cases Format

Explore Learning has newly added 3 STEM cases and handbooks this spring. Students assume the role of a scientist trying to solve a real-world problem. They use scientific practices to collect and analyze data, and form and test a hypothesis as they solve the problem.

  • Each STEM Case uses real-time reporting to show live student results.
  • STEM Cases take between 30 – 90 minutes for students to complete, depending on the case.
  • Multiple grade appropriate versions, or levels, exist for each STEM Case.
  • Each STEM Case level has an associated Handbook. These are interactive guides that focus on the science concepts underlying the case.

Expect 3 more STEM cases to be added this summer and 3 more next fall.

Support

Training is on-going through eLearning and redelivery planning support to departments/content areas can be supported by eLearning.

As the type of Gizmos content continues to grow, you may want to test student devices from time to time, especially when you try a new Gizmo. You can check System Requirements and Check your Video Card by finding “System Requirements” at the bottom of any Gizmos page.

This is also where you can find email or phone support. eLearning does not have a view into this system, so often the teacher will want to reach out to Explore Learning directly.

 

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Office 365 in Canvas

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Instructure highlights seven points of interoperability with Office 365:

  1. Sign in with O365
  2. Add & embed docs to modules
  3. Collaborations
  4. Create & upload files directly from O365
  5. Cloud Assignment
  6. Office Add-in
  7. OneNote Class notebook

For a 30 minute overview of the seven main points of Canvas Integration with Office 365, watch below video:

Friday, February 10, 2017 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9-3PfFYSgU

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cK-12 in Canvas

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The #edtech content provider cK12.org offers a great variety of math and science content for grades since 2016. You may not even realize all the quality content available for you to easily add to your Canvas course.

cK-12 is an open educational resource (OER) non-profit organization dedicated to increasing access to high-quality K-12 STEM education materials. CK-12 offers free high-quality, standards-aligned, open content in the STEM subjects through an integrated set of tools for learning including digital textbooks, concept-based learning resources, simulations, interactive practice and more. All content is created and curated by teachers, for teachers and students.

You can embed cK-12 into your Canvas Assignments and enjoy grade pass-back to your Canvas grade book.

This video leaves out assigning 10 points to the Assignment, but everything else is an accurate representation of the steps to inserting this quality content into your Canvas course:

For those who like written directions to create CK-12 Assignments:

  1. Click on the course Assignments tab in the course navigation pane
  2. On the Assignments page, click the blue button +Assignments
  3. Name the assignment
  4. Assign 10 (or other as appropriate) points
  5. Scroll down to the Submission Type box in the middle of the Edit page.
  6. Select External Tool
  7. In the Enter or find and External Tool URL field, click on the Find button
  8. Scroll to CK-12
  9. Once the external tool launches, select the topic (e.g., Trigonometry)
  10. Select the subtopic (e.g., Polar System and Complex Numbers)
  11. Select the lesson (e.g., Intersections of Polar Curves)
  12. Click Add
  13. Click Select
  14. Finish any other editing you want and click Save or Save and Publish
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