 OTAN Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Okay, hello. Thank you for joining us today. My name is Julie Casperson-Schultz, and I'm an ESL faculty member at Sierra College. I've been teaching in the community colleges for about, about over 10 years. And before that I was an ESL and EL Civics coordinator and teacher in adult education, in an adult education program. And my colleague is here to join me today. Hi everybody. I'm so excited to be here. So I'm Marcia Brock, also ESL faculty at Sierra College. Sierra College is a community college in the Northern California area, if you're not from here, north of Sacramento. And I have been in the community college system for 20 years, but before I was full-time I was a freeway flyer and worked at different colleges. And I just love teaching, and I'm very excited to be here and show and share Canvas with you all. Thank you. All right. Just a second. Okay, so I'm transitioning to online learning and making it work. I want to tell a little story before we get to our modules. So when we're on ground in our classroom community, it kind of reminds me of the picture when we're community building, it's inclusive, engaging, fun, challenging, welcoming when we're on ground all together in person. And so when COVID hit, I felt like, oh my gosh, what am I going to do? How am I going to community build? How are we going to be inclusive, engaging, fun, challenging, welcoming when we're not even with our students? And I was like, what am I going to help? What do we do? So I was very worried that my students would just look at the computer and just freak out and drop class and not continue. But my goal was that ESL students would be confident and happy learning online and that we will have fun practicing together on Zoom. But that was my goal. So in comes Canvas. That's our learning management system that we use at Sierra College. And we just want to tell you a little bit about Canvas and about our program at Sierra just a little bit before we start sharing our modules. So what is Canvas? Canvas is the common course management system, CMS, or learning management system, LMS for all of the California community colleges. Canvas is intuitive. So whether students are on their cell phones, laptops, you know, desktops, whatever, the stream changes and modifies to fit their devices. It's flexible. It allows customization to support a range of pedagogical styles. We can do different things. We can be creative and show, deliver instruction in different ways. However, it best fits our teaching styles and it's dynamic and cloud based. So they are continually improving it and teachers can even make recommendations like I'd like to, I really like to see that you do this for faculty or for students. And we change this feature, add this feature and they often listen to voices in the field. And so Marcy is going to talk about this part. Right. So what I love about Canvas, it gives you the opportunity to really engage students, communicate with students and very easily with discussion boards announcements. I will be showing you hands on that interaction, simple and easy for instructors and students. It does. It's fully supported 24 seven. So if you are in a bind, something happens, you get complete technical support. The other thing that I find it really great about Canvas is it because it is quite popular. It's very easy to go to YouTube and find a video on how to do something really quick. I've been there, done that. But you get a lot of help. So it's not scary to use, trust me. And also I will be demonstrating the different aspects, but it's very, very easy to do. I have to tell you that I'm not a techie person at all, never have been. I was the type of person that even didn't didn't want to do Excel spreadsheets or anything like that. And when I started using Canvas, it was just very, very easy and simple. So, and so it's efficient. It allows us to do our grading very easily and efficiently and students can immediate feedback like if they take a quiz and it's multiple choice. There's still see their score right away. Yeah, I'll be talking about that's a lot of fun, actually. And, and then they get teacher feedback, we can say great job or, you know, here's something to work on so we can give immediate feedback like that the students can receive and they like that. Okay. Marcy. Yes, so Canvas is so here in California we have a strong community college system and it's used in all of the community colleges. A few of the UC and state colleges UC Berkeley UC Irvine San Francisco, San Jose state and then also private Stanford and Santa Clara so all the tiers of Higher education in the state. So we want to tell you a little bit about Sierra College. So before COVID-19 many instructors use Canvas for basic things like grades and assigning videos to watch before the next class. I want to talk about that. Okay. So, like we were using as a flip classroom watch a video for homework come back and we'll discuss it or blended learning because when we were on ground we were still using Canvas a little bit to supplement the instruction and. And so now at Sierra College all our classes are asynchronous campus wide but ESL instructors have the option of scheduling optional synchronous zoom meetings and Canvas is used as the instructional platform for all of our departments. Yes, I want to say that I'm very grateful. To have been able to use Canvas because we had had Canvas for a while about 15 years. And but what I really love about Canvas is the fact that you can use you can start by using it as little or as much as you want and I think that's very welcoming. We weren't before COVID we were not forced we just had it as, you know, was it we were incentivized to use it but it was not and we were not in any way coerced to use. And so I started it very gradually, and without any pressure, very user friendly that's I guess what I'm trying to say. And, and I was incentivized to use it by the fact that I was very interested in flipping the classroom and saving that classroom environment for real meaningful communicative activities. And so having the students watch videos on Canvas, read materials on Canvas and then come to the classroom and really have not, you know, waste quote unquote time and just have that really good interaction. So I will say that it Canvas is really wonderful for blending blended learning integrating hybrid, or just using it as much or as little as you need to so I was never an online teacher. I still do not consider myself an online teacher, but the fact that Canvas was so friendly and I started using bits and pieces of it. I'll tell you really quick one, how the first the very first thing I used Canvas for was announcements and the reason is because at community college we give homework, and I would write the homework on the board or sometimes I would get little, you know pieces of paper here's your homework, and then I would always have a few students next class meeting say, you know what, you never told us to do that, or you didn't give us the page number or that and you never said that. And so I said, Okay, now we have Canvas we have videos, but the thing that I want you to do is check your homework on announcements. So I would send the message on announcement with the very detailed of what the homework is so every time a student would say well you never said that I didn't do the homework because you never told me to do it. I would show okay here's the message and there it is. So it was, you know, and that's how I started just with the homework thing then I start and then after that I started adding videos and adding materials, but very user friendly. Yes, and so I'm not not was not an online teacher so when we did mid semester, we have to move online my biggest stress was actually learning zoom, as even though we had zooms applications in our computers, I had never used zoom in my life. And so, going to that 40 minute training and trying to figure out how to do breakout rooms and, and all those features of zoom were more stressful for me than actually putting materials and using canvas. So, that I just wanted to share that part because Julie in fact is way more techie than I'm learning. Okay. So, so, and when we went when we started began teaching. When we went high when we went remote sorry, and we started using canvas, you know, solely. It, they are our campus provided a lot of training for us, and but also for students it is a challenge to be able to first our students to be able to, you know, use canvas and the way that it's expected so we need to provide a lot of support for students. So this is some of the ways here college support students are ESL department we offer a two week training or a tech orientation at the beginning of the semester for our lower level students that we have like an open live zoom session hours that we're there waiting hello students can come in and ask questions we can share screens and help them. And then we also support all ESL students during the semester with open weekly zoom hours. We also have instructional assistant for that's for all levels beginning we try and focus on the beginning levels and then we continued all semester, a few hours a week with our instructional assistant. We also have past peers are embedded tutors and they're just invaluable they're right there in our classes in canvas as I believe there as tutors or instructional assistants and so they can comment on students work and support for the students, and also they work in the virtual tutor centers the students can use them for additional tutoring outside of our class if we decide to have zoom sessions. And then through the cares act we've been able to give students laptops and we also loan them hotspots earbuds and webcam so those are the ways that they're supported the college. And then some resources that have an sort of inspired my teaching and this I've been teaching a long time but in recently the last year so I these couple of books I wanted to share the missing course by David Googler and I love this but culturally responsive teaching by Zoretta Hammond, and then I have to say thanks to my very special colleague who I've never met her name is Laurie woods, and she is from Queen market college but she has really helped me and guided me and mentored me in my way I teach on canvas because you can also yesterday or Wednesday I think they had a little session on canvas Commons and how to how to share your information and then download other. So we share, we share modules we share materials and I was able to get a lot of her materials off of the Commons in canvas and then create my class based on the the way she set up her modules, and I'll talk about that. So, again, my name is Julie Kasperson Schultz and Marcy Brock and here are emails and then we have a couple minutes for questions and then we're going to go right into sharing, taking you right in our end of this courses, showing some student work and the way we set up things so do we have questions. Not yet I don't see anything in the chat folks remember that you can use a chat for questions or comments and if anybody wants to unmute and ask anything so far otherwise we'll continue. Good, ladies. Okay. Now Marcy. Okay. All right, so I will go ahead. And so hi everybody so this is the Sierra college website and a very user friendly. So here that's where students click click on canvas. And I just have a username password and then they go to their courses. And so when you, when they click on their course the first thing they get is something called the homepage. I'll be talking about the navigation bar and other things but the homepage is great because it's a live page it can be edited. And I actually do that as you can see in yellow here at some urgent messages, go to zoom. I try to update welcome to we are in week six. So I put that that way it's the first thing they see, but then I tend to keep the homepage as is. And this is the beginning of the semester. This is what it looked like it started with welcome to our class. And as you can see photos, you can put zoom links for there's a link for orientation so students and I'll show you in a minute. So this is our instructional assistant she's our tech support, I happen to have two tutors for this class. Here's my video embedded on just saying hello and telling them about where to go in the navigation. And then there's actually a zoom link that shows the students where the navigation bar is just kind of showing canvas. And I leave that there, but I'm able to just kind of tweak the top of it, which is the part that they see right away, when they get into canvas. Comfort zoom so the. So what I do is I move the comp the zoom schedule to the very top so they don't have to scroll up and down. So most zooms are in comfort zoom, and then the tutor sessions. They have to click on on links, because they're in the tutor center so it's a different system, but what I love about canvas is the ability to having of having zoom right here. Well, let me talk a little bit about the before I go to comfort zoom the reason I have comfort zoom on top. So this is our navigation bar. And what I love about it is you go to settings and you are able to hide a lot of the items. So my students are basic students I don't want to confuse them I want to make it as simple as possible for them to navigate. So I actually hide if you can see here that they cannot see these links right here on the navigation bar. So you can hide and or show as much as you want. Customize the other thing you can do is you can change the order of the buttons here and navigation. And so what I do is I put the ones that they really need to use up on top. So I consider zoom one of the main things we do. So I want to make it very easy for them. So I put it as the first one it, like I said when they log in a defaults to home. So defaults to home they see the crucial thing. Here's the zoom schedule in case they didn't copy or they want to be reminded. I don't change it does the our zoom schedule stays consistent the whole for 16 weeks the whole semester, but when you click on comfort zoom, and I can make this bigger for you guys if you need to a little bit. What I love about it is that is very little work for you so in the beginning of the semester you can click on schedule and make the schedule recurring zooms for the whole semester of the whole 16 weeks. So here for example on Monday and I have office hour from three to four then I have we have our classroom at 615 Tuesdays and Wednesdays also. It's great about it and it's happened to me before is that okay I set up the zooms for the whole semester completely forgot about holidays right so I'm very easy to go back there and just delete the holiday one, or if you're ever sick and you don't feel okay I go to announcements, I send them a message that I go to the homepage, and then I'm able to come here and actually delete the zoom. If I'm sick and we're not going to meet that time, and that way they're not lost in la la land trying to get to class in case they didn't get the email, the announcement and the homepage of me saying sorry I'm sick today. It's very easy to customize and and to change, and I just really like the fact I don't even have to think about it's there it's consistent. They find it very easy to easy to do. Well, what I was talking about that making the top ones are the ones that they're going to use and make it easier for them. So in this basic class. Then the next thing I want them to do is click on announcements so announcements are our interaction. So one thing that I do in the very beginning of the semester is I asked my students to download the canvas app on their smartphone, and to turn on notifications. It's free app. Wonderful works really well like Jimmy said it's very customized to different devices. So that way and I promise I tell them you know what I promise I will not be sending you announcements in the middle of the night. So they turn it on what happens is their phone beats they know they have an announcement. Also every announcement you do goes to their email so they can see it on canvas they can also see it on email it's automatically goes there. Love about announcement is so here for example, it's my tutor Vilma. So she communicates with them I communicate with them and one feature that is really great is you can say reply to this announcement. And I had one in the beginning of the semester. So what happens is students don't understand the message for example. They can just click here on reply open a box type of message. Okay, don't understand click post, and then you'll be able to to see if there's a problem with your message. So that makes it very interactive one thing that I do remind students to always check is the date of the announcement because sometimes will say come today I try to say come today Monday come today Friday, but here has the date. Another thing or one thing that campus does have it. I'm in a teacher view right now, but you can go to student view right here and if you click on student view it's fantastic because you see exactly what the students see and how the students see canvas, which will be different from you see it, because as a teacher you can hide a lot of things from students as I will be showing you, which is to our advantage, so that everything is ready to go so you the, I call it hide but the technique that term in campus is published and unpublished. So you can publish things unpublished things hide unhide things from students so the student view is really helpful. So announcements is my communication tool with students primary so like I said I like putting things on the home screen, but then I'll cut and paste. Click on announcements, click on new announcement and boom, send them an announcement. Okay, so again, keeping with the order. Where's the class. Okay, I'm online or I'm hybrid or I'm blended. Where's the class material where do I go, how do I learn where's the stuff. So very easy modules. The way I like to show modules. Just say leave Marcy because it is you put you. Yeah. So the, yeah, the, the way I like to explain modules is like this. So think about a filing cabinet. So the module is the drawer of your filing cabinet, and then pages, which I hide from students because they don't need to see one million pages I class material so it's hidden. The pages are the files, right, and the modules is the actual drawer. Now what is so you can have as many pages in the module as you want. I absolutely love about it is that you can organize it whichever way you want. So for example, we have 16 weeks in the semester. So I like to do it two ways, actually, I have by week, which you can see here week six started my weeks always Monday and end on Sunday by midnight. And so they have seven days to do the work. And so I like to do it by week but one thing I have changed recently for example in the organization of the modules is I used to have 123. So when we were in week eight, and so on and so forth students have to scroll all the way down. Well, you know our students struggle with technology and some of them, even though I said this is the most important thing you ever have is your mouse some of them are holding the finger. Okay, so what I do do is I put the current module on top. So we are in week six that's what you see as you scroll down, you'll see week five. So it goes back, everything can stay open for them all the time which is great so I say you know you didn't study last week go back to week five and study it. It's open seven days a week, 24 hours a day. And so you can organize this whichever way by week. But what I really love about it is the fact that you can also have it by skill. So for example, as you get when I finish my finals here. Week 14 1516. Okay, so for example, I still have as you can see it all of this is hidden from students so this is for my benefit. So I have a reading module where I have a reading we did reading circles in the classroom right I have a listening module. And you can have a writing module. I have a conference module. So with things that I want to demonstrate to you guys. So you can, there's no limit to how many modules you can have and how you want to organize it. Another thing that I love about modules is so I so this is what the students can see and I do have discussions quizzes grades people syllabus all the things here, but the two things that they have to do is go to modules the materials are there. And the quizzes and discussions which are activities that my students in this basic level do every week are embedded in the module so for example here in week six. It's quite long. So these are all all material I'll be showing you guys, but so at the bottom of week six because it's due on Sunday. They have a quiz and a discussion. So they don't have to be clicking on quizzes and discussions and trying to find which one do I need to take know you go ahead and you put it right in the module. So it's week six they're doing quiz seven in week five for example they did quiz six. So it's just very organized for them. Oh, well, you know so basically they're using comfort zoom home announcements modules. They don't need to do this so I technically could hide these two buttons if I wanted to make it even simpler for them. One button that I think is absolutely fantastic is the people button, because they, and very interactive, because by clicking on the classmates, they can email the classmates. You can also email me and Julie happens to be here too. You can oh you can add, you can talk to your canvas administrator and add a coworker to your canvas. So we often do that so we put each other in our classes so we can see what are they doing how are they doing things how's my colleague doing things and then we can learn from each other. So our instructional assistant our techie person, the person who helps students with all the technology zoom and canvas Maria Hernandez she's right here. So they can just click on her name and send her an email. So, and myself, the tutors, and each other. So what that does is there's no need to memorize people's emails anymore. There really are in the community of learners with two clicks, boom, you're sending each other email and you can study together canvas of course has 24 hour tutor and all other great goodies and great things. Like, like I said, I try to keep it very user friendly and simple for my students, especially with the technology, because, you know, we get food sometimes because our young students look very techie they have their smartphones. So that does not necessarily translate to knowing how to do online work and understand canvas so that's why we need to have the orientation. So this is a Julie will do more advanced things but this is for my beginner class. I have in the first two weeks, even though we do the orientation, I have these pages where, you know, what is home, what is comfort zoom, I explained to them and I read this and talk about it. When we are in orientation, and then this link here is the zoom orientation of canvas kind of like what I'm doing right now with you guys. But so when you are in modules. So here we are in a page inside of modules. You can just click next, which is also helpful so you don't have to get in and out and in and out. Students just click next, next, next. Previous through their modules to go back. So I want to show you some examples of pages that I have created for this beginner class. So for example, one of the topics is volunteer work. So I because it's a beginner class I like I prefer not to put too many links and so that they don't have to go out and get lost. So what I basically do on my pages is I type on my pages I asked them to copy in their notebook, everything that they read they need to copy. So this is for example it's a speaking activity, and it's about kindness. So we have a warm up so these questions, I type them there they can look at them and think about them and then in zoom I share the screen and we start talking about is it important to be kind. And then I have this great little video that it has no sound but it's a story. It does have music but it's very selfish God. And how he doesn't help anybody. One day he does help and it changes his life so what's important what what is the importance of being kind. Also, I show students how you know they can make the screen big, or they can make them small to fit their screen. And then I have some post video more speaking conversation questions. Again, I would be doing this in zoom, but the students can start doing this with their tutor, or by themselves at home so then I click next. So that was a speaking activity. This is a writing activity for example they're starting to write a paragraph so I have the warm up questions that the topic is favorite item. But so I just type it there. And, like, very very user friendly you can use different fonts, however you want to do it. It is a, you know, it's a live page so you can cut and paste. If you have Word documents, you can just copy into canvas page directly so you don't have to retype everything you've done. Very easy to insert pictures so I talk about my favorite item is my PM my aunts piano. Then we do have studio which is very helpful then I insert. There is a video of me so they make me change to we. So I'm speaking very slowly. I'm studio gives us the option of closed captioning so you click on CC you click on English. Let's change to Vilma and I. Marcie, I'm going to about a five minute. Okay. Oh, already. Oh my gosh. Okay. I'm fine. I just have I just really enjoy using canvas and. So again you put in pictures this is profession so it's a woman welder, and then again my video, I like dialogues so this is a dialogue that I've created again customize it. Then I read the dialogue to them with closed captioning. I really want to show you guys the the quizzes. Here's another dialogue. Again, using lots of photos using my video I here I have to there's no limit to the number of videos you can insert on the page and number of illustrations and materials. So this is a discussion a discussion is a very interactive feature. So I want to show you this one because this is a grammar one. And here are my students so here's they posted their answers. And what is really great is they are after they post their answer they're able to see their classmates work. So here for example my adi says excellent job. So they communicate with each other we do a little bit of an etiquette in the beginning so they can also correct. So here it says it was perfect the other one says well I think you need to use capitalization. So, and then my corrections my feedback so after they post all their work. I give them feedback this is another discussion this one they have not done it yet. Let me just move on because I really want to show you guys the quizzes. So you can use it for reading writing listening. They can post videos. Okay, so this is a listening quiz. So I really what I really love about the quizzes they're so easy to make and for my basic class I use multiple choice and true and false only, but what is really great about it is for example you can insert your video so here's my video. 1717 and they have tomorrow is it 70 or 17. So this whole video it's a listening video so this whole video is is with my videos. Oh, I think I have to get out of there Julie just a minute. Yeah. Okay, we're just making it. Make this quick. Yeah. Show your final exam. I'm sorry, but I really do. I'm so proud of this. I, I'll, and let me say something for those of you who do not give quizzes, I know it is called quiz, but what it really is it's a really fun activities, my activity, my students are so excited about this. It's like a video game for them. They love clicking I start with very easy questions. So they love their ability to click and then they get instant feedback once they finish, they can take it one two three 10 times. After the last time they finished they get the feedback correct and correct. And it's just really fun. They are excited to do this. It is like a fun video game for them. It's not stressful. You get points because we are in community college. I, you can put a video directions written directions and all of that. But I wanted to show you is that you can mix and match in your quiz you can have just a straightforward just type and answers multiple choice. You can have. So just like this fill in the blend they click on the right answer and go, you know, keep going. You can like I said put in the video and here I ask a question. Where is Sierra college, but they can click on my video 20 times. So there is no they do have a time limit to take the quiz but they can click many times. So you can have you know we have multiple level students, you can also have you know my question here's the present continue. What are they doing in the picture. What are they doing in the picture so that you can put your video and the picture and then I want to make sure they're clicking the right grammatical form. So again inserting pictures, you can put a video so here's a little YouTube video for them to watch. They don't have any words and after again they can watch many times and then they can fill in the blanks fill in the words for the sentence a complete sentences with the information from the videos and I do have Malala and so the I have true and false for Malala again. I try to make it as as interesting for them sometimes I Julie will show you some of the funny picture she put it's just pretty. It's nice. They enjoy it. It's fun. It's not a stressful thing to do. So I will stop. We will be going over some more advanced I don't know if we should look at the chat right now. Yeah, I think it's a good time to stop a second. Oh, I see it actually made. And Marcia says, I've never used Christa said I've never used Canvas before but I have used other LMS systems is it challenging to set up I had used. I think it was D2L at American River College. And I mean there is a learning curve I'm not going to say you could just get on there and you're good to go. I did. We've done a lot of training you know what if you're caught if you're if your school site gets set up with canvas I'm sure they're going to offer lots of trainings and you can just start really simple you know that's a nice thing about canvas maybe just start with announcements maybe just start with like a little quiz you just a little bit by little bit but as you're learning you can add on but there is I would say there is there there is a learning curve and right the more you take it the more there's a lot of trainings you can do. It can be very incremental and non threatening. So for example the first time I did a quiz I didn't put videos or pictures no I just typed the question, and then I just click multiple choice and I typed the answers and then I clicked on the right answer and I clicked save. That's all I did and then I thought hmm maybe I should try to add a picture that is going to make it fun for students but anyway you can start really small. Thank you and I'm going to share. So Marcy shared about how can this kind of looks for students and sort of the navigation and she shared about modules and I'm just going to go directly into one weeks module it was actually last week's module. I'm going to show you how that how it looks and how I structure them each week because they're pretty much the same I try and keep it the same. So I'm going to show you my class which is. It's the next level after Marcy and it's a reading writing class and it's grammar is integrated in there also. And it's again it's the Marcy teachers are beginning level and I'm the next level. And in my level we're reading two books one is Seed Falls I don't know if you've ever heard of the Seed Falls and the other is Gold Rush. So my modules are built around our readers. So this is my homepage and I made this on Canva. Somebody did a workshop on Canva yesterday or Wednesday I noticed so I put a little, I think it's called a GIF or GIF or something. I put just to make it fun I'm really into making my pages look fun and funny and interesting and I get a lot of feedback from students. And this class is not only fun but it's funny. So I'll try and add it that's kind of what I like to do. And so when I go to modules. This is this would be like week five this was last week so every week in my module I have a welcome and I try and change the picture so I made a little bit moji so every week I'll have a different different some different saying or different picture. And then the students get to see what what they're getting ready to do this week so it's a little like a little preview for what they're going to learn in the week. So there, then they can read this and continue we just go to next. And so next they're going to read the chapters and Seed folks and I've uploaded I just found this on YouTube thank goodness somebody it's an hour and 54 minutes. Somebody had read the whole book. Somebody already did that I didn't have to do that so whatever I can find and integrate. I feel like is is great. So, and that's a easy way that you can put things into Canvas from outside so this is a YouTube video. I just tell students I actually usually tell them where to start and where to stop because it could be confusing because this is two hours and they only read a little bit each week so I tell them where to start and we're like where to stop. And then I tell them to follow along in their book as they're listening to the speaker, they're following along in their book and then maybe sometimes they don't use their book and it's just listening. And then I tell them pause it, repeat this sentence and repeat maybe a vocabulary word, you know they can go back and replay it. And then in this level they're practicing annotations we're teaching them how to annotate. So here are their directions as they're listening and to and reading the book they're supposed to be actually marking the book. So putting a star next to an important ideas circling new words here's all the directions. What it looks like when a student turns it in. I'm just going to show you one student that allowed me to show her work and where is it. Let me see here where speed grader. Let me make this a little smaller so I could here we go okay so this is speed grader and this is how we actually go in and we grade things or you get feedback I mean if maybe if you don't actually grade you can at least provide feedback to the students. And so in this class I've asked them to make a submission take a picture of their page in the book, and then submit it. And so one students looks like this one for example so this is her page uploaded and all annotated. So I can give her her points and I can say super job you're annotating well. So little feedback and she can reply to me here if she wants to. And, and then, let's see go back here. So the next part in my module is they would take a vocabulary quiz so Marcy Marcy showed you how the quizzes work so the vocabulary quiz is based on the vocabulary of course in the book that we're reading, and then they would go to comprehension quiz. So, again about the book, some questions about, you know, basic comprehension, and it's set up just the way Marcy showed the just multiple choice questions you can have essay questions in that case. The teacher would need to go in and grade the essay questions but if you just have multiple choice canvas grades it right then and there students see their score immediately. And then we go to next. So now they're going to this is a reading writing class so they're practicing actually paragraphs so we're getting to the paragraph this is week five we're just writing our first paragraph. So first I'm going to have them talk about it, and this is a discussion like Marcy showed you. And so they're going to talk about one of the characters in the book, and in the book with each other. So I gave them a little picture of Virgil that's the character in the book, and they have some directions tell me three character traits because we're working on character traits and adjectives. So the student would come down here and and she copied my question here, and then she answered she's hard working emotional and embarrassing. So and then they can reply to each other, and, and they have little conversations even at the second level of ESL. And so that that is a discussion. And so in this class we're working, as I said on character traits and adjectives and they're using adjectives to describe a character in the book in their first paragraph. And then next they would. This, this is a would be like a wiki page but it's within canvas so this is a page in canvas and they can share their thoughts. So we're talking about Virgil again and we're sharing adjectives about Virgil. So students put their name here I always give an example so my example was about Virgil she's hopeful. Well how do I know she's hopeful. Well I found a quote in the book so we're teaching them citations to but this could be used for many different in many different ways they could share vocabulary words or they could share pictures. So I'm going to, I'm going to show you a few different ways but I just wanted to walk you through a module and see how it's built and the activities build on each other. And then the next part would be to. This is a speaking activity now, and I use Flipgrid for several years now and this would be like something that maybe you would do later. Like we said you can work into canvas just little by little but I figured out how to integrate other apps into canvas so if Flipgrid is integrated so here are here is my activity on who's your favorite character in the book and why. So here is the they're here are their responses and they all tell us about who their favorite character is so far and why. And so Griselda I'm just going to share Griselda's. Oops. So let me just click on that one. I'm my favorite. Can you hear that, Marcy can you hear. Okay, because he's helpful, smart, unloving young man. So the next thing they're going to do is they're going to take their three adjectives that they are, they chose to describe one of the characters in the book and they're going to write a paragraph so on the next part they're actually going to type a paragraph on word and turn it in and then I'll just go to speed greater and give feedback. So we talked about topic sentences detail sentences and a concluding sentence so we're just doing one paragraph. So I found this funny little video thing put it all together so hopefully it kind of makes it less intimidating to be effective filter make it kind of fun for students so they're not all nervous and so using these kind of different things that I find. Oh, another thing you can do in Canvas is make a rubric. So this is the rubric for their paragraph so I can just go in here and for each student I can click what what how they did in their paragraph so I can click here, here, here, here, and then they'll need it and it'll it will accumulate their points so then they'll see their points at the bottom as I click inside of these boxes. So you can integrate rubrics, something maybe later again I didn't I didn't do this at the beginning, but I've been learning more and more. And then this is kind of an equity kind of an activity that I do every week and also again I changed a little gift here. Every week I do a little humanity check in because I want to hear from each student so I want to hear a question you might have about the week or just tell me all is great I'm excited or to express any concerns. So this is the way I can connect with each student and I really look forward to this of everything every week because this is how the students can really tell me how they're doing so I get things like. Oh, I love the modules this week I love the book or the videos were great or gosh Julie I really didn't understand the present progressive and so I could, then I can comment back oh okay let me send you a video or can you meet me and zoom or a student might say I had a really bad week I lost my job and I'm really depressed, and sometimes they open up like that. And so it's a way to, to really get to be able to support each student where they are. Julie, where did you find your rabbit. Oh, I just Google these things and I think I actually made this on Canva. So another thing that I made a lot of these I make because I try to make my own, as much as I can make my own graphic kind of things I find them on free places because I get a little worried about copyright so I try and either find them like. So it's called like, it's just a common share or something like an OER type of thing. I will say something that you know like I started very basic so all I knew I didn't know Canva or anything. All I knew was Google images. And so I would just, it's out there in Google so I should be able to get it so I would just save it in my, you know, my PC and then upload it from my PC and then it would stay there on the canvas page. And I will say that any, even in the advanced levels having illustrations or having animation so so great because students get really intimidated by just reading having a lot. The lower level that you know my lower level has sometimes more pictures than words. And that's great. And one thing we do hear from students is oh my gosh there's so much we have to do so much reading so much reading on canvas so trying to break it up a little not to put too much text on each page. And then another thing I do is I oh a wrap up at the end of each week so I'll again I change this great job good job way to go, something like that and this is a bit moji and you can add these in this might be something you want to do later but I just wanted to show you. And then I do a little summary, great job this week you read annotated site to discuss spoke wrote and you learned. So hopefully that's a little bit of encouragement and a little summary of what of everything they did. Next, at the end of each module I also have this is a padlet and so I use a lot of padlets I love pad that I paid for their subscription. And so students can come on here at the end of the week if they have a question they can help each other so it's kind of community building and it's, it's a way for them to ask questions if they don't understand something or they want to get clarification and they can help each other and then I check it too. So the student for example said how do I know if I'm missing any homework, I think I think I submitted a quiz twice. And so I wrote back and I put my name here so they know that I responded. So, let me go back to module so that was one week in the reading writing integrated course with the grammar. There is a separate one unit class that's grammar support and I'm not going to show that. Next I wanted to show some different activities that I've used in different classes so again what you saw was one module one week for one class. And now I have another module with just different items in there from different classes different activities just to show you a little bit more about what you can do. One thing you can do is ours that I like to do our student surveys at the beginning of the semester I'll do a survey I get to know you survey on canvas so it'll say like where you from you know what's your favorite food. Tell me about yourself what are your hobbies, and they'll give me all their answers and canvas will give you like kind of like a spreadsheet of all their answers and for just for equity purposes and because I care about what my students think and I want their feedback. I want to do an early semester student survey. And so I can show you that, and it just says I want it I'm doing it right now actually this week in one of my classes I want to know how you're feeling about our class so far is there anything I can do to better meet your needs, or improve the class. So I created a survey, and then they can just go ahead and if you go to student view you'll see that they just say it just says take survey or complete survey. I'm just going to share what one student wrote, she said, at first I was worried about the recordings that I had to make with my face. It's always a bit difficult to expose oneself, especially when the language is not spoken well. But when I made the audio recording I felt more free to expose my ideas. Of course they stand out more my diction errors, but in general, that helps me a lot to continue with the class and to pronounce better. And then at the end of the semester I do it and final, final survey and saying how was your semester did you feel welcome did you feel, did you feel comfortable participating. Did you need any support technology wise what what what could, what could make the class better. So for example last semester so my listening speaking students said we need more speaking. I heard that and then I changed this semester and I incorporated more requiring more videos. It's really hard to do speaking I told them in this environment. It's really challenging if we're in the classroom we could do lots of speaking and everything so it just makes a little more challenging but they are enjoying the videos and I tell them of course they don't have to show their face if they just want to record their voice I do a lot of voice recordings for them because sometimes I just don't feel like showing my face or making a video and I and that's fine. I do say I love to see your face but it but it's okay if you're not going to record with your face this time. I will say that students really appreciate our videos saying I get I teach pronunciation to and I get a lot of feedback is like it's so nice to see you. There's a real person there. Oh, Julie you got to share the weekend stuff. Yes, okay. And I just wanted to share that you can also link outside of canvas so this is for my higher level class you're talking about growth mindset, and I have a little quiz here that I found on on, I found it in Google so it's in a different website and they get to take a quiz and find their score on how how their growth mindset is. See where your mindset is at you got to stay till the end though it says so you go all the way to the end they get the score like 24 and it says you, you have a higher growth mindset than 85% of American people are so the American the general American population so they love that. So they'll take the quiz and come back to a discussion and share their results and discuss with each other, and I asked them were you surprised why are you surprised and why not. And so that's outside of canvas but it's easy I've just linked it in there. And then you can also bring in videos as Marcy shared. We do a unit on the green plant on green planet so I have this book about the garbage bars it's just, it's a true story very, very interesting story and Justin Thoreau happens to be reading and I just found it on YouTube so I said oh well, you know students can listen to Justin they can go reading a book to them. And then down here I have a few questions to answer that they would, they would write their answers in the, in the speed grader. The submission way, the way they submit and then here's two little more videos that they can watch for more information about the making of the book and again it's based on a true story it's just very interesting and they like that. So one of the videos is easy. And I also try and add songs to most of my units in my reading writing when I don't have songs in my grammar part of the reading right add songs. And then when I taught a grammar class every week I tried to add some sort of song or chant that match the grammar point that we are teaching. So this if you're familiar with Caroline Graham's grammar chance. This is one of them, and you can, you know you can, the students can play it and see the words. So as we were talking about either and neither. So I found this song by Brad Paisley and you know they're maybe not all the students like music maybe it just reaches one student but that one student really really likes this part of the unit you know I had one student who loved the songs, you know, and so even just that one however we can connect however we can reach them. And then here's the lyrics. And then this is this I did last weekend actually on the start of the module, I went by writing and I thought gosh wouldn't it be nice to share with students what what I did last weekend they can see work human they could see pictures of my family so I made this like little wiki page and I put it right in the module and that was your weekend. And I told them about my weekend it was a beautiful weekend we went bike riding I love the American River bike trail. And here's a picture of me and my family. Tell us tell me what you did last weekend let's share with each other what you did. So then they can put it right in here so this this one student put a video she's actually a Spanish teacher and she makes YouTube videos and I had no idea. She shared her video that she made teaching Spanish. And then this student went to on a hike in Auburn and he shared the videos of the trail and Auburn. So that was another way to just to build community in the classroom and share with each other. Those are two examples of how they responded. This is a video on rupee core and it looks like I do have a few minutes I'm just going to share this video I don't know if any of you have heard of her. She is, she was born. She, she's a she learned she was an ESL student here when she was younger and so she learned English growing up. Her parents were immigrants, and she she wrote this poetry book but one of her poems is called broken English, and she talks about her parents and coming here, and how she, how she felt when she was younger and then she wrote this beautiful poem. In one of my modules in my higher level listening speaking class, they listen to her read her poem on the next page they can look at the words of the poem and on the next page they're going to choose their special golden line in the poem what what part of the poem really reaches them and what part. They really connect with and then they share that with each other by video on flip grid again. So I'll just share a little bit of this one she's just, I'm just going to share like one and a half minutes and it's just the introduction. She's talking about kind of why she wrote this poem and how she felt when she was younger, and I just will say that students love this poem they all say, Well, this, this is me. This story is my story. My kids laugh at me when I speak English to I know how she feet, you know, I know how her mother feels. So, let me just play a little bit. Is the sound okay. Want to make it big. Yeah. Is it too small. I'm just wondering right here. Sound is good Julie the sound is good. You can make it bigger. How would I go back to make it smaller just like on the bottom again, the escape key. Yeah, or escape. All right. So obsessed nationally was trying to fit into the Western culture over there, you know, blonde hair blue eyes and perfect English and I didn't learn English I don't expect her to know English so when we let go to the grocery store my mom would be shouting out, you know, in her accent or a job being like, Oh my God, you're like so embarrassing. Like, come on. And she would just only speak louder and embarrassed me. Honey, because I used to think she's like a form of embarrassment trust me like every immigrant child like fuels that way down there it's just like, oh, like could you say, could you like try like, why can't we just assimilate it's so funny. Through your teenage years spent so much time trying to assimilate and then for three or 20 he spent so much time sort of trying to prove to the West House of different you are and so broken English it's like so important to me because it pays homage to the sacrifices pick up from whatever home they're at and they leave everything behind land, money, culture and language and they were in place for in every single way and over especially in our cultures where, you know, raising children is like, you do it within community. And how, how does one do that all by themselves when you have generations and generations of doing it this one way and suddenly you're doing it alone. So it's a really beautiful poem, and she goes on to read it so the students can listen to it, and they can of course repeat, you know, go back, pause it, and whatever they need, and then on the next page here are the words to the poem so now they can see the words. And then the next page, they're going to respond as I said with their golden line because it is a listening listening speaking class and I'm trying to get them to do more speaking and not write about their golden lines but speak about their golden line so this is what this these so the directions are right here choose your golden line and basically explain why you chose that line, and I just wanted to share a little bit of one student's response. So this sorry this student chose not to show her face and that's fine at least I can hear I do tell them though I really like to see your face and the way that your, your mouth is forming the English words but it but it's okay if you just send me your recording. So the golden line broken English. I chose this two universities degree. That means nothing. One mother told that was broken now one swollen belly with a baby inside. It's, it's amazing. I choose this class or sentence because they then talk about me about me when I was arrived this country. I have two degrees in the university in my country and that means nothing here because the language is a principal problem. One other tool that was broken now is the same because I can speak very fast the same in Spanish, I can speak and understand very fast in English, when I was arrived, because I was a right pregnancy. I'm very, very worried about me, new body, new country, new language, new foods, new everything. And when, when they press one swollen swollen belly with a baby inside is me too. Okay, so I'll just stop there but she goes on to explain more and more she she's really feeling passionate about this golden line and how it relates to her life and how she can watch each other's videos so it's really a community of support because then they can respond to each other and say, oh gosh I felt the same way or, you know when they share something. I'm sorry, you know, hard, we all have hard times and we can get over them keep keep trying or some way to support and encourage each other. And let's see. Another way that we that I just like to kind of show a little bit about myself is that we did. We did a little unit on growth mindset and warby Parker started as a very small company grew very big and it's an eyeglasses company so they watched the video about warby Parker and its founders, and they have some questions to answer and then one day I decided well I heard we had a warby Parker and Sacramento so I went there. So right in the middle of the module I just popped this in there hi students, here we are at warby Parker here's my son and nephew, and we went and visited and here's the address if you ever want to visit. You could see you could see this shop that you just studied about. And this is another tablet assignment as I said I really love to use padlet I paid for the subscription myself. And this is a way that students learned to make their own padlets. So I gave the directions here. I made a video how to make your padlet. And then this tells you how to upload and they did it they did their own padlets they watch the videos. And our students are just so amazing as you all know how they just, they just adapt and they learn and they're so, they're so amazing so they're beautiful padlets that they shared about their country so this was one of my students that shared about, I think he was from Ukraine. And he shared. Let me ask, is that your 530 level. 530. Yeah, so this is a higher level. I want to make it clear, because that is our high intermediate level because my students would not be able to follow those directions and do it. It's a lot of listening that's 12 minutes of direction so. And, but we do have lots of support so I really believe in like, you know, high, high expectations and high support so they do even if they get the tutors help right instructional assistants help so they ended up being very beautiful, and I can comment other students comment what a great quality you have your picture gave me curiosity about the delicatessen of your country, so they can see foods and everything and this student was from Brazil Marcy, so she had a lot of pictures from Brazil her hobbies, I told him to make three categories. And so another way of sharing class building community building. I think I just have a couple more. At the beginning of the semester another padlet we in the classroom oftentimes we do our classroom norms together. Let's think about our norms and what we want from each other what we want from the teachers what helps you learn. So it because we are remote I had the students in my higher level class, make their own classroom norms padlet so they just click on a little pencil and they just add a comment. When you go on zoom, you can give them the instructions again on zoom. Yeah, yeah, you can even you can even do a padlet I've done padlets on zoom live and with my lowest level class and it works wonderfully, they can just add to the padlet right there on zoom, but this one is a separate they're asking it's a separate subscription that Julie has. So I'm going to add on I just wanted to show you kind of what things you can think about in the future doing if you end up going with canvas. So padlet is a website. You can make these tablets. This is another wiki page and there we were talking this a grammar point so I tried to integrate, you know, a grammar point was something interesting that they can do with it to make it fun and engaging so that we did models and I asked them to, to use their models but give travel advice. So they added, I tell you know of course there's directions on how to do this. And then they, I always give an example so I said Julie Tokyo I lived in Japan taught English there so I made this for my example and I so I use my model you need to visit as a goose the shrine. So when the students finished this page it was very beautiful filled with these gorgeous pictures and then some using their models to give travel advice. And this was a higher level grammar course but you basically you just click the edit button and you're able to go in there it's very simple, even our lowest left my reading writing lowest level can do it second lowest level. Okay, and then that's just an example. I think we're just about done. Yeah, and that's it. So we have time for questions perfect timing Marcy needed perfect timing. I'm just going to stop sharing. Yeah. Okay. Let me see. Padlet is your padlet on your canvas. I've integrated it I embedded it so padlets very pretty easy to embed from from the website into canvas. And I, I think I found my rabbit on canva. I believe that I found that rabbit and I created that that little sort of header thing. I think I made that on canva. Canva is they have a free part and then they have a paid part that a paid aspect to it or so you can get more, you know, if you pay you get more features. So, Krista was asking if it's difficult. Well, like I said, what I really love about it is the ability of you can start using it at your own comfort level, and I'm not techie. So I will say no I don't think canva is canvas is difficult at all. And I think, yeah, but you can work. Let's start little you know like Marcy said if you just make a little quiz with a few questions with just words and then maybe like later you're like well I think I know how to add a picture so I might add a picture now little by little you can learn more and add more. They're asking, they're asking Julie if this is the paid version of canvas. So we're at Sierra College and we were provided with, you know, this is provided by the college and I believe I think there's someone here Abram if you're here I believe I had a discussion with you and you were using a free version I'm not aware of a free version but I did hear from Abram that he has a free free canvas teacher version that he got. Yeah, canvas free for teachers and if you just go to canvas.instructure.com, you can create an account and the same thing for your students. They're separate apps to those canvas teacher and canvas student that you can write your phones. So is it limit, do you know if it's like limited on what you can do in the free version or what they don't have some of the fancy bells and whistles like you guys do it's here. They don't have studio and a couple of other things. All the basic functionalities there. Right, I will say that for example for many I just started using to be transparent honest here. I just started using studio when we went online because I was told that I had to for compliance. I had studio I got listening speaking so what I would do without studio is I would just record my video right on the page on canvas and then summarize like do a script and type it or add a script to the page. I didn't do close captioning before we were forced to be compliant and go online, because I had never used studio so if you don't have studio, you can still make your videos and do a sort of a transcript for them. It's a little bit more difficult, but it's totally possible and that's what I did for 15 years. April, when you use the free version were you able to go to canvas commons and download the materials that teachers share it's like canvas commons is like the teacher share spot so I've actually put some stuff I put my whole grammar course on the canvas commons so anybody that wants to just use my grammar course for the whole semester can just download it into their canvas, and so you can share things that way and download and you can access it. Yeah, this was one thing that I was pretty concerned about because I use four different canvas implementations, and I do a lot of exporting you can just look for my name on canvas commons and find a bunch of stuff. But yeah, it's just one common so no matter what implementation you've got, it's all shared. All right, you can just. We have the link on chat right now. Yes, good. Okay. Let's see any any other question. Oh, native your hand is up. I just wanted to share the link to canvas commons and I'm actually going to share the link to Julie's module that's located on canvas commons as well I was just going to add to. Yeah, like Abram said there are some bells and whistles to what you know quote unquote is the bells and whistles piece of canvas which is the paid version. And then the canvas commons which is free, and you can find already made modules on there as well. I may have some student work hiding in there. I tried to pick out the ones that told me that I could share but I'm not sure if I should if it's if I'm ready to share the whole module. I don't see but I think the ones that are in there are the ones that told me I could share, especially the ones I shared with you the video and then the, the, the student annotated page those students definitely gave me permission and Julie it is already it's actually live on there all you have to do a search for your name it is already available. Oh, okay good okay. Wait, oh so you shared my resources not the module I just shared right. Whatever is located on the canvas comments. Oh, perfect okay yeah that's fine that's totally fine yeah those all the students so when you when I submitted my or when I gave, I don't know shared my grammar course with canvas comments, all of your work is taken off except my wiki pages that I have to go and delete and erase all my student comments before I share it. But everything else is your students work is not attached to anything so their quizzes won't show up and their discussion posts won't show up if you share to the comments thank you. I'll just go to canvas comments and put my name and you'll see what I've shared. I shared some of my surveys student surveys, and some other modules and materials. Let's see how many hours is your one week. How many hours is your one week module. Hi Dominica hi Dominica. Let's see. So remember it's a little bit tricky because our zooms are optional. So I do have zoom sessions they're not very well attended sometimes but we still hold them because they're optional because we understand that students it's a hard time right now and they may not be able to make it to the session so I offer zoom sessions three hours a week for my five unit reading and writing class. My module, we're supposed to give about double the time and homework so I'm thinking the module might take my students five to about five to 10 hours to do all the work in there. And like I said some of them don't ever come to zoom so it's it's the way I see them is through canvas is that answer your question Dominica. Thank you Julie. Okay thank you. And once there's some Renee you said are you able to share the student training materials. We have some video we're actually working on making we're still it's a work in progress because we're trying to still support and see what students need can best, you know reach them and bridge canvas to entering the community, the campus you know the onboarding we're still working on that so we do have a lot of directions in our canvas modules on like Marcy showed how. I mean I could show a little, I could show a little bit of it just for the sake of time I don't know how much. Let me see let me just see if I really answered the question so student training materials so I guess the most helpful thing that we're thinking right now is these tutorials for ESL students. So like how to see the feedback the teacher gives you that's super important and really hard for students to find that feedback it's a skill we have to tell them. Every time I zoom I show them where is your feedback, where is your fear, let's look at where is feedback, and so that they can, they can finally do it on their own so. And another thing that we do very often is we record or zoom sessions, and then we import and post in our mod inside our modules, so students who didn't come to zoom can watch. So we're still work we have we have some items on student training, but we are still developing some we're working with the campus to help us get more videos out to help students more. That's great thank you I was just curious about the structure how you were structuring your support for students. So just maybe as you move forward we can stay in touch. Yes, yes, share that information with one another thanks. And they might end up on. We have a Sierra College YouTube site I wonder if are you probably our tutorials will end up on there, I would think so we'll be in touch. Thank you. Let's see anymore. I don't see anymore. Don't forget to okay to make sure you complete the evaluation. And then if there are any more questions. I will say something really quick my son, you know, he used Google classrooms in high school and then went to a college with canvas, and he thought it was so easy to use canvas as compared to Google classroom. It is hard to learn. I don't know. Sometimes it can be hard to learn both systems I feel like, but, but it's doable with training, a little training support. Thank you for coming. I hope it was valuable for you and you took away a thing or two.