 Welcome to Project IDEA. For this class, you will do computer work at home in your online classroom before you come to class. Your online classroom is in Canvas. You will use what you learn online to participate in class activities with your teacher and your classmates. It's important to do your work before you come to class. Let's take a quick tour of Canvas to help you get familiar with your online classroom. This is the Canvas dashboard. It is the first page you see when you log in to Canvas. From here you can find your classes by hovering your mouse over the course's drop-down menu and clicking on the name link for the course you want to enter. This is the home page. Usually you'll see a picture on this page with the start here button you can click to get started. Your teacher might decide to change the home page so don't worry if it looks a little different than what you see here. Clicking the start here button will take you to the modules page. Now let's look at announcements. This is where your teacher might post short notes about important things related to class. Not all teachers use this tool but get used to checking it in case your teacher does. Now let's look at the syllabus. The syllabus page has important information about your class like your teacher's contact information. Don't worry if you don't understand it all. Your teacher will explain it to you. In the grades tool you can find your scores for assignments and quizzes. Your teacher might leave you feedback here too. Looking at your grades will help you understand how well you are doing in class. Let's look at modules now. This is where you will find your reading and other online work. Each module has many things in it like discussions, quizzes, and learn activities but we'll learn more about those later. Be sure to do your assigned work so that you are ready to participate when you come to class. Some activities will ask you to work in a group. The Canvas Collaborations tool will let you do that. Here you'll be able to type and share information with other students online. In chat you can type short messages to other students who may be online at the same time as you. If you get stuck you can look here to see if a classmate is available to help you. This feature only works if other people are online at the same time you are. You may also want to get familiar with your inbox. This is a messaging tool that is built right into Canvas and it works kind of like email. Here you can send messages to and get messages from your teacher and your classmates. Your profile is located here. To open your profile click on your name. Some colleges do not have the profile feature enabled. If your college does not use this feature you can access your personal settings by clicking on the settings link. By clicking on the help link you can send your teacher a quick message by clicking on the ask your teacher a question link, typing your message and then clicking on send. This message will go to your teacher's inbox and your teacher will reply in your inbox. To return to the home page click on the home button. To return to the dashboard click on the college logo in the upper left hand corner.