COURSE SYLLABUS

About this Course

Teaching with Canvas Essentials is a self-paced training that will introduce you to the beauties of using Canvas in online, hybrid, and face-to-face classes. Through a series of hands-on lessons you'll master Canvas in your own practice course (a "Sandbox') to develop course components, while also exploring how to use Canvas tools to facilitate teaching and learning. And you'll learn the basics of making Canvas content accessible. The training concludes with a 30-minute one-on-one consultation with your course facilitator, Cynthia Sargent, to show off your good work and plan for next steps to take your course design to the next level.

This training is designed for instructors new to Canvas. Other faculty may be interested in using it a refresher on the basics.

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Outcomes

In a Canvas sandbox, demonstrate skills to:

Be a "real" and engaged professor in the Canvas LMS.
Create an easy to navigate course with streamlined access to learning materials and activities.
Communicate learning goals and use LMS tools to monitor student progress in meeting unit/course outcomes.
Create accessible pages in Canvas and evaluate whether additional content meets accessibility requirements.

Technical Help

The course is designed with embedded support, basically "just in time" resources to help you learn how to use Canvas. But, there's a good chance you'll encounter an issue or have a question and it's good to know how to get help.

If you're new to Canvas, be sure to make use of the help icon on the navigation menu to check out the on-demand support and training available to you as an instructor. You also have a Yuba College facilitator who's active in responding to your questions. In fact, when you click on Help you'll see an option to Ask your Instructor a Question, and write a direct message. Easy peasy!

Another option is to post in our training Q&A Forum if the technology issue does not need to be resolved immediately.

Finally, you have access to the Yuba College Helpdesk for questions about logging in to our instance of Canvas, and other tech issues. Email helpdesk@yccd.edu or call 530-741-6981.

Accessibility

Every effort has been made to make course materials accessible to all participants, including those with disabilities. If you encounter a problem accessing anything in this training please contact your facilitator right away.

Communication and Grading

This training begins with an orientation module providing details about your facilitator, preferred contact methods, ways in which you will receive feedback and get help, etc. Please be sure you log into Canvas regularly to see any messages you receive to your Inbox. One early task is to set up your preferences for notifications which can also help you stay engaged with the course.

Overview of Course Components
Training Requirements	Points
Hands-on Tasks	35
Check-ins and discussions	25
Course Consultation meeting	40

The current course runs until Monday, November 28th. Please stay in touch if you will need more time; there is some flexibility with submitting the flex roster.

Attribution

The course structure, topics, assignments, etc. have been designed as a customized training for Yuba College. Much of the content is informed by, or adapted from, professional development courses from the @ONE group. They have developed high-quality resources over the years and continue to refine their offerings and content based on feedback from hundreds of CCC faculty. Because of their funding from the CA CCC Chancellor's Office, all of their resources are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License and can be used and adapted to local needs.

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