 OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Hey, my name is Christy Reyes and this is about tips and tricks about Canvas you may not know. There is a full detailed handout that you can get by opening up your phone or mobile device and scanning that QR code after you open your camera or you can go to this bit.ly URL bit.ly forward slash OTAN TDLS Canvas tips or if you miss all of that you can always email me and I'd be happy to send you this PDF just to give you a glimpse of what that looks like it's a really complete handout with instructions and many different resources that you can look at so well our time is pretty limited even though OTAN was generous to give me 90 minutes I may not get through everything but again this handout will really help you so hopefully some things you'll definitely be able to follow along with some things I would just say hey just I'll let you know just watch for a moment because you know all of us going step by step that would use up a lot of time but this is kind of hopefully what I can cover in this time talking about your course entry points your course card your homepage banners and buttons talking a little bit about navigation in your settings there is something called syllabus do any of you use the syllabus in Canvas okay yeah you do you okay because it's not the greatest and so a lot of us use something called a liquid syllabus because it can be much more dynamic and beautiful but we can use those two together so I'll talk about that and you can publish it in a way that students can access it with ever having to log into Canvas as well so that's the reason why a lot of us use a liquid syllabus is because we want to send that out well in advance of students starting a course and they may not even know they're logged in yet right so I'll talk a little about that and do you use announcements okay and you usually see them at the top when you log in okay you can set the number you know so the default may be zero but if you want students to be able to see some of the most recent announcements going in chronological order you can set the number of announcements in the navigation or excuse me from the homepage and then how many of you have taken any coursework about making your online content accessible very few I don't know if you know it is the law and we are very behind we are very behind and so I'll talk a little bit about accessibility in Canvas there are certain things we should do in creating our content and luckily there is an accessibility checker within Canvas but it's not perfect okay I'll talk about embedding a little bit I'll talk about page and content history and I don't know if it's ever happened to you probably not you're all perfectionists and never making any mistakes I'm sure but if you ever accidentally delete something you there's like a 95 percent chance that you can get it back okay do you know about requirements and prerequisites I know that my colleague here does anybody have some knowledge about that okay you're in the right place then and you probably know how to course copy but sometimes you know in the past I've taken some online courses and they've had me create some content and it's not my school resource and I want to grab that and not copy paste copy paste so there are ways you can download content to import into your like school account for example speed grader do you use that already some of you okay and then more as time permits and questions answer so I don't know if we'll get through half of this but we'll try to get through as much as we can okay so let's me let me go ahead and get started here so not that page but here does anybody know what those little boxes are called tiles or course cards I've heard them at one which is for the California community colleges they call them course cards but I'd like to call them tiles I don't know which one is right so use the terminology you you like um the shell is the whole course but there's the entry point is the tile or card and you can see I'm on some different committees and my department and thing for my school and this is just really not exciting the plain green box um I don't know about your school at my school courses when they our school sets up our our course shelves it's NCESL 45 section 1350 students have no clue what that is and so you know you can give a nickname by clicking there you can change the color but it's really much much better if you have some visual image that's maybe repeated on your class syllabus that students can identify your particular course with one time um quite a while back I always have students set up their profiles here and they took all of their little profile pictures and put it into one little box and so it was very clear where to enter the course they saw themselves but it is important to have a visible entry point with your course tile or course card and so how do you usually create your course tile or card what do you use canva what else okay so canva is the go to tool this of the moment well I um I want to show you one simple way to um when you're looking on social media like maybe you have your Instagram account do you ever see these really nice quotes with a beautiful picture you ever see that well there's this is a simple simple way to in an instant or two to make your course card you can spend lots of time on canva but this is one really simple way and this is called closio and so just look at when you scroll down completely free you don't even need to make an account okay closio and this is on the handout so you don't need to write it down but um you know you see these kind of different quotes yeah oh yeah you've seen those before haven't you so um you see this course card that I have right here that I'm getting ready for my summer class already and so you know students yeah our school is just minutes from the beach and I I kind of sell my classes yeah you can you can go study from the beach on canvas that's okay so um in closio I would maybe just go like this ESL level seven at Miracosta College and who said it well that's me I'm going to put my name okay now there are horizontal and vertical choices so as you're going through you want to look for the one that's the most square okay so I go here I could create my quote oh gives me a preview and this this one's a little bit too vertical so I was looking through earlier just to save time and I found one that I kind of liked over here let's see if it pops okay here we go this one's going to be perfect for me so there's my course card okay all I need to do is click on finish and download it and it saves it as a little jpeg okay a little image file so closio you know that that would be fun for other class projects I've used it with students when I have them write their about their class their personal model and that's their little visual aid okay so how do I get the course card right here how I do that is I'm going to enter my course who knows what I do next settings right where are the settings bottom left okay so I go to settings and there I already have something there but if I didn't it would say have a little image that says import picture right and that's how I could get it there so close yo would be one really easy way of course canva it would be you know if as you create your teacher brand right we all have our special style might my colleagues have this you create your teacher brand and then you're all of your course content is kind of having this similar look and feel that's you that's unique to you so when you go to canva you know that it's free and I'm just going to type in I'm going to go to logo logo is the best for oops logo not log logo let me type that in get this out of the way logo and and I can't type very well then I have all kinds of different options and then from there I can also create my course banner but very simple very customizable like you just choose you know a style that you like change the colors download it as a jpeg and that can be your course card as well okay so that's one entry point course card all right of course in a moment we're going to talk about your homepage that is the most important part because that is the the welcoming embrace for your students if one time I observed a very very experienced online instructor from my college she teaches Spanish she's a beautiful woman and she's like she has a sense of humor a sparkling personality and I observed her online course as part of her tenure review and I did not see one ounce of her in the course right so I was able to give her that good feedback and she she you know changed everything but students need to see you they need to see you so probably you do a lot with your onboarding maybe you send out welcome messages like a little video that's important but then online it's very isolating so they need to always see you when they enter the course okay so that's what we're going to be talking about in a moment moving on though I want to go back to navigation for a moment okay here the far left is global navigation there's nothing much you can do there that's that's not anything you can change except for your profile you should definitely put your image there and a little bit of information right so you just go there and you go to profile and put your picture it's really important when to show students how to do that too they don't always want to put a picture that's fine you know if they want to have an image of you know their favorite soccer team whatever okay but you know it's they're mostly studying online in the lms and they're doing discussion posts it's good to have a visual so over here we have in the regular menu home announcements modules grades assignments quiz oh my goodness if I leave all of those open to students what's going to happen they're gonna I mean they'll probably start clicking on quizzes and take a if I don't have that hidden they're gonna take a quiz that's maybe not even for this term right sometimes we forget to unpublish things and they'll be like you didn't even teach us well I didn't even what are you talking about right so how many items are good to have as few as as few as possible so you can see I have hidden the eyeball with the slash through it all of those are hidden I keep the homepage open the modules well I um I do have on the homepage the current module at the top so students can find it but um grades well if your class is really not graded you may not have that but do you give your students grades do you my students get grades and even though it's non-credit it's never going to follow them they want to know and they deserve to know how they're doing they deserve to know and so the grade book is there for them okay so pretty much I hide everything because assignments quizzes discussions everything else goes within modules okay so how do we get rid of these things how do we hide them anybody know who can tell me settings thank you so we go to settings and then where do we go navigation okay and you'll see a whole bunch of things listed up there how do I how do I hide them you drag it down so if I decide oh actually they don't need to see the grades after all I just drag it down now is it hidden yes no I need to go to the bottom and say that's usually because it's so far down to scroll we often forget that right so now I can see that everything is hidden sometimes when you're creating a brand new course you're like wait a minute right now my modules are open but it says that modules are hidden but I just went to navigation and I unhid I I put it to be visible but it's not showing why do you think that would happen when you're creating a brand new course you haven't published any modules yet okay so once you publish a module then it will be visible okay so can we change the global navigation on the far left good students you're very fast learners can we change the menu items yes yes question not really let's try that let's try that I don't think you can change the order maybe let's try that oh I didn't mean to do that let's try that let's put the announcements towards the top now only only home will always stay at the top so let's try to change right let's try to change modules but then let's see what happens okay so yes we can okay so we can thank you I learned from you hey you come up here I'll go back there no okay um so yes just dragging around yes okay did it change sure me um yeah I'll do it later but yeah you you probably wouldn't hurt to that save now do you have a website that you always have students visit like every week what is the website tell me one website quizlet okay what else quizzes okay what else okay tell me another one I'm trying to get the perfect one here what tablet okay what else amazon okay so um so um you you know not all of there there are two ways that we can do this and one way is that it will be embedded but that doesn't always work for all websites okay if it's a website that has lots of multiple buttons is not going to embed well but you you want to test it out okay so does anybody know how I can add a different menu item over here anybody uh huh okay I'm going to go to apps you will notice depending on your school I mean there are just so many apps have you heard of some of these I mean brain pop I know I mean oh they're just so many yeah so here's what you're going to put in the filter by name box it's called redirect okay um I this new one with the black arrow I haven't tried that one out that just came up very recently so I don't know if any of you have tried that one I don't even I'm afraid to try it in front of you right now so I'll just I'll just reserve and go with what I know I'm going to go with the blue one okay redirect tool and what do you think I do now add up so let's say I'm just going to I'm not going to use palette and all of those because I'm going to save those for later um but let's say that there's a dictionary that I always have my students use or I always have them when I'm teaching vocabulary every week they're looking in an online dictionary writing down definitions and using the psorias.com to find synonyms for example for me just to make it easy you don't want to say keep the name as redirect tool your students don't know what that means okay so you need to give it a name and I'm just going to put school website just to demonstrate okay and I happen to memorize my school website see I've used Britannica dictionary and different ones before so I'm going to put my school website all right so there are some options here if you try it out and it is not embedded then you want to definitely choose this force open a new tab okay so when students click on it it's going to have this button it says click here and it will open in a new tab but for beginning computer users you know what happens right they open a new tab and they get lost and they're like what where am I and they waste a lot of time so you want to test this out because it doesn't work with all websites but I'm not going to do it force in a new tab because I tested this one out I'm going to say showing course navigation showing account I'm going to check those three final ones not the first one though okay like that I'm going to click add app I don't see it over here I need to do what refresh let me see there it is school website way at the bottom right over here way at the bottom okay I'm in let's go to student view for a second just to see okay that would be an integration and you'll need to work with your school on that I've tried some integrations do do all of you know formerly flip grid now called flip I tried and tried I talked to my IT people another teach no we couldn't get it to integrate so you need to work closely with your IT people with the integrations okay um so uh let me see if I can get to student view I think my course is not published so I'll just go here let me just click on the drum roll and when students click there it's right embedded they're not leaving canvass at all okay so that's nice again check try it out though it won't work the embedded part it might you might have to choose the force open a new tab yes sir good question let's try it it stays in canvas okay um let me see if I have here um I would show you that again in the past I have just used that force in open a new tab because my students are a little more advanced in but you know test out yeah exactly question here yeah could you just get the hot link there of course of course yes um so that would be a possibility put it right on your home page as I'll hyperlink exactly yep okay other questions all right so that's navigation um moving on syllabus okay I do have my syllabus hidden because I really I mean what it turns out to be is a list of assignments is that what your syllabus is no if you do want to keep syllabus in your menu how could I include my liquid syllabus how many of you are familiar with liquid syllabus first of all if you're not my colleague right here is giving a presentation tomorrow about liquid syllabus okay um liquid syllabus is more dynamic than a PDF that you send students it's got hyperlinks you can embed a video of yourself I'm going to show you a couple of examples so what I have used before let me see which one okay um well I used to use some more do you know some more um some more is for creating newsletters but what I love about it is it looks really awesome on a phone and many of my students in you see this is a liquid syllabus because I have videos I have hyperlinks it's much more interactive um the problem with some more is that um after a while you can't go back and edit so I can't use the syllabus and change it for next term and then change it for it's a like a one-time deal okay you get a certain number of newsletters like five for free and I never pay for anything because I'm I'm a poor teacher so I never pay for anything and so once I ran out of free newsletters with that one account I use my gmail then I switched to my yahoo and then I use my family email right but then I decided um maybe I'll try something different but with some more what you can do is you can get this copy or embed code right here and I can go here and I can go and copy that embed code and um back in the syllabus if I decide to keep syllabus as a menu item I can go to edit and um how do I embed something now some code there are a couple of different ways I think it's only a comment from somebody who joined late okay all right um so there are a couple of ways to embed one is with those three dots in that cloud or if you get really fancy and you know coding do y'all know coding we're supposed to be knowing coding you know evidently but there's there's this um this one down here too okay and I can just paste in let me go back and get the embed code one more time no that's a direct link thank you here's the embed code copy paste now if I decide to keep the syllabus I decide to unhide it now students can see something more attractive because if you just create a page for your syllabus unless you know coding which will be our next step maybe some of you will be training us on that next year at this time right um unless you know in uh coding creating a really dynamic syllabus just in a canvas page is a little bit tricky okay so um another site that I've used before nowadays I'm just using a google site it would be the same thing I can but embedding doesn't really work well with google sites because I have these different tabs so I would probably just get the hyperlink and put it in the syllabus but at least then what I can do is students can see my syllabus as more dynamic and beautiful liquid syllabus in canvas however what happens some of our students they're they're not getting the information about how to log in they don't know you know what their password is and you want to get them going with your liquid syllabus in the onboarding process before the class starts they don't know how to get into canvas and you've published everything here in canvas luckily there's a way to make your syllabus public and share a URL without them having to log into canvas okay how you do this so I have to use my cheat sheet here because it's a little bit um it's not something I usually do so how you do this is in settings I'm gonna go to the far left settings okay I'm gonna go ahead and in navigation I'm gonna go ahead and I have to make the syllabus visible so I'm gonna have to find that guy down here somewhere tell me if you see it there it is okay see it's disabled right now so I need to pull it back up here okay where did it go there it is okay so maybe I want to put it there and then need to make sure to save right and now um my syllabus is now going to be visible to students but I need to make that page public so what I do for that is in settings um I'm here on course details and go down to you see the visibility there okay so I'm gonna leave it at I'm gonna leave it at course but I'm gonna choose customize okay and um what I want this to be let me make sure I got the right thing I think I'm gonna put this on public okay I'm gonna put it on public um syllabus public okay all right let's see if it works I'm gonna update okay I'm gonna go to my syllabus page I'm going to copy oops I'm gonna copy this URL I'm just gonna go open up firefox different browser real quick and something that's not connected with canvas right now oh please work please work hey all I need to do students don't need to log into canvas I can send that URL in an email oh I don't know how to log in no it's okay it's public the whole world can see this if I want to share it with them did you know this before today okay awesome yeah yeah right okay so um that is a way that you can make your syllabus public to the world without students having to log into canvas yet if they're not quite set up you know sometimes students like I want to join your class but I I can't go register until tomorrow you don't want them to get behind so here's here's a way to share all that information with them from the beginning okay so yeah yeah definitely there you go that's that's a way for self enrolled courses is you could have it housed in canvas but make it public so that you could send it out yeah so yes that that would be all they can access that's the only thing that you've made publicly available that's right all right um one more thing in settings um and that is about the announcements um let me just see if I have this one course open okay so you know when students this is a course I was taking and so you see that there are three announcements you can set the number of announcement students see when they log in from the homepage right how you do that is um you're gonna go back to your settings okay and um I you know if you don't see this in your particular course different canvas let's let's say accounts may have different settings I notice like I I have the free canvas version I have a different canvas that I'm working through through the state of California and I have a nut I have like four different accounts right and they're not they're all slightly different just based on what was made available so hopefully you would see this but if you don't that's why okay when I'm on course details when I go way way way way way to the bottom there are more options and that more options way at the bottom show recent announcement well maybe you don't want the announcement showing that all that's fine you can uncheck it maybe you want three maybe you only want one maybe you want 15 I wouldn't recommend okay but um maybe I just want two announcements showing at the top and then you know there are other things here definitely that you need to have checked like um one is um you know maybe you don't want students to attach files to discussion so there are more options here as you can see um so hopefully you see that in your account okay um but then I always need to update or it won't say so that is the way to limit or to expand the number of announcements students can see you know that when you send an announcement it goes to their email but also if you want you know many of them do not check email as you probably know so you can also have them visible um from the home page all right so as I said a little while ago um your home page is the warm embrace come on in kind of how you meet students at the door when they walk into the physical classroom your home page is hey welcome on in remember me yeah I'm your teacher here I am so what sort of things do you have on your home page like a nice banner a banner beautiful banner a nice welcome message your photo a little video contact information three buttons okay the link to zoom exactly okay and um so Mariana here thank you she came here for a reason I paid her to be here to kind of be my crutch and um what do you use to create your banner canva so if you're going to go with canva stick with canva create your your teacher brand if you're like uh canvas seems hard for me okay well learn it but um but there are other options too there are other options too one option is creating a banner with powerpoint that's really simple like I don't have time to play with canva then you can just go to powerpoint go to the design tab oh gosh well you know there with office 365 there are some more beautiful designs I don't know I'll just choose something simple let's let's choose what should we choose which one do you like I'll choose okay I'll just choose that one really quick all right but that's that's too big to be a banner that's going to take up like they're going to be scrolling so what you need to do in the design tab is to change the size okay so you go to design and you see slide size right there okay I don't want standard or widescreen I need to go to custom okay and then again slide is viewed for banner okay and then I click okay and then whatever it doesn't really matter oh but look at that font let me see what sizes that font 7.2 I think I'll need a microscope so no make sure to do something like 30 or so okay and then you can type in whatever and let's go here make it really really big and we can go 2.4 no let's make it like 28 and I'm probably want to drag that up a little anyway you can make all kinds of designs you can customize it you can put in different text whatever okay all right I might want to position that a little bit better but am I going to be able to put this PowerPoint slide as a banner yeah no I cannot import a PowerPoint slide that will view as an image so exactly I need to go to file now what save as now what well I'm going to choose desktop this bc and I'm going to choose whatever I didn't give it a name but I'll just put banner okay and I'll put it on the desktop but not as a PowerPoint what do I need to do right here mm-hmm I need to save it as a jpeg or png either one and save it just this one slide and then I can check it there it is I won't open it for you just to save time but it's saved as a jpeg and that can be my banner okay so that's one way of course canva as you mentioned is the other option but before I talk about that I'll just talk about one other one which is photo p okay and what you do there is you go to new project and you'll want to choose ads and you'll want to do like one of the leaderboards and look at they have some cute ones see and it's a similar thing as with PowerPoint or canva I just I just choose one I change the words and download as a jpeg so that's another option you know if you're in a hurry okay there are many cute ones like I think my colleague here Monica talked about seasonal you know maybe you want to choose something springtime change it up okay so that's the other option and as you said the third option of course going back to canva well I'm not going to choose logo but if you go in and you type in canva banner there are some banners there as well okay oh succulents yes very stylish okay and so so December like all kinds and you know that if you choose one with the lit you see I don't know if you can see this one this one has a dollar sign I have the free account I'm not paying forget it so you want to choose one not with the pro so I'll probably have to choose some guy like this and then you can just customize it you can totally change it right to make it look whatever you like and download it as a jpeg okay so your banner is very important I'm going to close out some some stuff real quick here oh I forgot to talk about this one if you have a class or maybe you work with teachers some of you might be administration and you never see them because you're only in zoom and only on canvas or whatever and you never see the students faces they never turn on their cameras well I did this once and it turned out really fun have you heard of pickston okay it's you have to pay for it but you get like a week free trial so it has to be turned around really fast not really good for open enrollment unless you want to pay for it they have this this option and I on the handout I have the links link to these instructions what you do is you set up a classroom and let me just show you what my classroom looks like you give students the link and they create their avatar and it joins your classroom and so you can see that's me and then these are the instructions but just to show you so they had one week to do this they put their this was how I could sort of see my students who were not willing to share a photo and then within that free week I can click on these different parts like there's it was around last year at this time February and then I downloaded this one before my free trial worked came out for the end of the school year you know so um you can you have to use it with unless you want to pay within that so you gotta tell students today make your avatar today because my free trial runs out tomorrow or something but um that could be your banner as well and students enter your course and see themselves so I wanted to share about that I think it's kind of fun all right so um I have here some kind of boring content for a home page okay I'm just going to copy that I don't recommend copying content from word it's a bummer it really is a bummer because you'd like to have that backup but from word into a canvas page because sometimes what happens yeah what you see I didn't put any bullets or anything here because is this ever happened to you you copy from something and then you get double bullets or you know the numbering gets all messed up so if you do copy and paste don't do any formatting outside of canvas copy and paste and put it in canvas and then do the formatting okay so here I have some content for my home page okay just kind of boring just you know blah blah blah blah okay so I'm just going to demonstrate really quick um we're going to go here making your home page the first time is a little bit complicated how many of you've made your home page before so probably the first time you're like oh oh I got it and then you you probably don't make it again do you you just change it and then this happened to me I wanted to make a new course I'm like why is this working because it's a three step process to make your home page we forget because we don't keep making home pages usually we just edit right so I'm going to go here to my um pages and I'm going to go where now we're now to make a home page page I need to make a home page so I'm going to put welcome to class okay I'm just going to oh maybe I should go ahead and put in that banner it's not my favorite okay but I'll just put it in just so you see images upload image where's that ugly banner there it is okay so there's my ugly banner but just wanted to demonstrate really quickly okay so there's my ugly banner um oh what about here just leave it the law is if I have a vision impaired student and they use a screen reader to look at the home page it's not going to they're not going to have an equal experience to a student who has vision so if it's decorative you can choose decorative I will probably just put banner uh for level seven with Christy Reyes okay so then when and if it says point jpeg take that out a screen reader will say banner for level seven with Christy Reyes you don't want it to say point jpeg you don't want it to say that it reads everything on your screen okay so then I'm going to go ahead and save it I know it's ugly I want to make it I want to make it fill the entire space I'm really not satisfied with it you know but I'm just demonstrating for that for you okay and then I have that content for my home page all right what do you think should I use red and green and purple should I leave it like this it's hard on the eyes it's not very nice to read so maybe what I will do in keeping with accessibility is use headers and styles okay so this is what a lot of teachers do oh I want this one to be bolder so I'm going to make it a bigger font size no no if you want to indicate this is the subtitle this is a sub subtitle etc you don't want to just change the font size you need to go here to paragraphs your title of your page is header one header two is the next subtitle okay maybe here um I might even take out this information students don't really care about my section number okay I'll just take that out then um this one maybe I will make heading three okay font size 12 is okay but I might make that I don't know I might make that a little bit bigger but here I definitely want to make this stand out right I might want to make certain things stand out so that is the way to make things more prominent than just font size in keeping with 508 compliance does that make sense okay um okay I don't have a glamour shot but I'll go ahead and put in a picture just to demonstrate so because you know you told me that pictures are important so um let's see if I have a picture available I don't like it need I need a um some teeth whitener and what else but anyway we'll just go here okay because it's important the students see your picture so again look here no alt text I need to put photo or I don't even need to put photo I don't even need to put that I'm just gonna put there okay yeah I am decorative but I'll leave that so I submit I can resize um something I don't have time to show you today is padding there is some code you know if you want a text wrap typically when you put an image and you try to do text wrap it's right slash next to the image if you would like that code that gives you some padding you can email me but I don't have time unfortunately to show you that because it's kind of complicated but much smaller okay there we go um so I'm just gonna leave it at that I would embed a video I have a welcome video if you have a tutorial it's better that you make it yourself a short tutorial hey students a like a screencast hey how you get started click here blah blah blah okay now I left modules open but some of you said you know redundancy is actually good in this case so students may click your modules to find my modules but why don't I just let them know right up front here too so what I can do let's say that I want them I don't maybe the class information is secondary because I've already given that information so what I might want to do here is put a hyperlink would be fine but someone said something about buttons how many of you use buttons what do you use for your buttons canvas or canvas canvas or canvas now I hesitate to show you too much with canvas because some of you will not have this in your canvas account um but there is this new well how old is it six months old for some accounts you have icon makers right here okay that you can make buttons you can use canva you can use powerpoint you can use google draw create a little image download it okay um but there on the handout I have some websites that make it even easier for you that you don't have to draw or anything okay one that I have here let me find it the button factory okay um oops let me get back there um there are several some are a little complicated because there's coding this one is simple very simple so let's say I want this one to be called week one okay I have options for the font let's see I don't know robot um do I want it bold yes do I want to tell if no I can make it bigger okay I get a little preview as I'm going along here I really hate that color let's see let's make it nice and blue oh no that's the font I'll keep it white but I will make the tech shadow no so you just go through um I want to fit to the text padding around the words for example but I really don't like that color no way there we go ooh I like that one what do I do now I can just download it if you love cody well go for it baby but I'm just going to download it uh-huh and so I'm going to call that button week one because I already made a button week zero ahead of time and so I go over here and um I'm going to put in those two buttons so here they go they are images so I'm going to upload the first one on my desktop I have well I created it's a different style but I'll just to demonstrate for y'all here it is here's my week zero do you use a week zero what do you put in your week zero module yes all your orientation information so you can see that's a different style is better to have all of them the same style but just to demonstrate and I'll just put in one more just so you see there's week one okay but there's one more step to get those to be going toward I could have them you know going down side by side however how do I link those to a module though okay well again what I need to give them an alt tag button week one is okay I would probably take out that underscore I would take out the PNG button week one okay that would be okay for that and then I need to select and which which thing on the text editor here do I choose the link now what course link now what modules okay so let's say my week one is about inventions okay and so I'm going to go ahead there I'm going oh I see I have a problem do you see that I have a problem what is my problem this little image bottom right looks like a da Vinci guy right I see a number one I have something wrong with the accessibility I'm going to click there and see what it is it's because I didn't give a good name to the other button so and I need to spell it correctly I know you English teachers don't get on me yet come on there we go when you see these balloons that's a celebration that's a good that's a good thing okay party time um some some of you may have another image down here let me just save and publish for a second I'm not satisfied with this but just here to demonstrate for you today um because it's quite ugly okay but some of you may have and I think we have at my school but I'm not seeing it right now some of you yeah there it is we have this little black button that's a secondary accessibility checker I think it's called popetek am I correct and um that will also tell you other things that maybe the canvas accessibility checker won't tell you because the canvas accessibility checker is not perfect maybe you're doing yellow on white that would not be good right so it can check it's giving me it says the same I'm okay but it's going to check many other things for me as well for accessibility so that's kind of nice popetek okay but I look to be okay I'll just go ahead and save it I'll come back to it later it's not it's not my finished work okay so I've created it is it my homepage well it might be because I was working on this course before no it's not it's not my homepage because there are two more steps how do I make that page my homepage uh first I need to go to pages I need to find that page and I need to make sure it's published it is published the green arrow and I need to go to these three arrows what am I going to look for next to the three arrows uh huh use this front page no let's see is it my homepage let's see let's see no it's still not there's a third step all right third step this is what we forget after you know only making a homepage once now I need to do the third step choose homepage because the default is for students to go to your course modules I don't recommend that is not the warm embrace okay so pages front page now let's see if that worked yeah now it's my homepage okay so it's a three step process to create your homepage all right okay so we've done buttons we've done homepage um I talked a little bit about accessibility one other thing to I think I sort of mentioned it but if I did have a numbered list don't type one period two period okay so if I do put in a numbered list and things like buttons it's best to do that oh I don't see that option how do I find the options for number numbering and bullets the three dots exactly and so there the buttons I can see the button options I can see the numbered list it's better to do that in canvas than copy and paste all right okay moving on I have a few more things about accessibility in in the handout but to save time I'm going to keep going um question so far yes uh huh let me show you that real quickie so if anybody no problem if you um join late or you missed this is the qr code for the handout or you can go to bitly um forward slash otan tdls canvas tips and uh there is a pds that you can download showing you everything I'm going over and more okay all right so moving on let me get back to my canvas course um next what I want to talk a little bit about is oh one thing that I really like um let me just go to one of my modules here oh do you ever see these cute little emojis so that's kind of a nice visual like what I've seen in some teachers uh canvas courses if they have a text they put a little emoji of a book or they have oh I don't know different things like start here maybe they'll have a little um compass type of icon okay how can of course I could go on my phone can't create content on my phone I'm not I'm a gen x not a gen z or anything like that how you can do this well let's see here let's say you can put um on the title of a module or a title of a page any content you can put an emoji and if you're not on a phone or a tablet that has the emojis well you can do this this way so let me go here and edit this and let's say I want to put some sort of emoji there does anybody know how I can get emojis on a keyboard the windows if you're on a pc windows period and I wrote it down in case you're a mac person if you're on a mac is control command space bar okay who knew but my colleague here also told me about a website called get emoji and so you can go there you can find emoji and you copy and paste you but if I do the um windows icon key and period at a same time oh look at that um inventions well maybe this is a writing assignment I would put the handwriting um oh I a gif will not work okay not in a title but maybe I want to go here let's see what else we got um I'll just do this one for fun okay the I don't know that's how you can get emojis sometimes if you're using them consistently and your module should be set up consistently so that there's the objectives page the learning page the uh discussion the assessment or assignment right consistent module organization then if you're using emojis go consistently with the emoji so students get used to those okay I'll just put that for fun um I want to next talk about embedding okay you do you use powerpoint in your teaching okay and then what I've seen some teachers do I don't really get the point but I guess some teachers do this they've shown a powerpoint in class and then they put the powerpoint slides in canvas well it's good for students who may have missed class I suppose but if I just put what I did here is I added a powerpoint as a file okay I don't recommend first of all look at what it looks like what this will look like is not a powerpoint it's going to look like a pdf it's just going to look like a pdf it's kind of like you know just scrolling down through a boring old pdf okay I wanted to go like hey answer this question what do you think it is okay next you're kind of like a powerpoint show so also if I just put the powerpoint as a file do you think students know what to do with that not really so it's better to embed your content on a page better to embed right so I can't I'm ready when you know sure go ahead I meet yourself and go ahead and ask so um what you can what I would recommend and this you know let's say that I have this this term and then next year this time I've kept my but I changed the slides oh my goodness I have to re upload the file and so if you do use powerpoint create a page if you have office 365 let me just show you really quick if I can find one that I have open let me close a couple things okay so we have office 365 okay and um what I would do is go there I've created a powerpoint maybe in office 365 powerpoint or I've just gone to my one drive and uploaded right so you can upload a powerpoint file and so here let me find it here's that same powerpoint all right in office 365 I can go to file share embed and create a page with that embed code so let me just go here instead so I'm going to add a page instead of just having a file with no context and students not knowing what to do so I'm going to create a new page I need to call it okay I would probably put some instructions please watch this slideshow and take notes on the handout provided in class okay save time I won't yeah a little bit different I'm going to show that in one second yeah so let me just do this preview real quick that looks a lot better doesn't it students when I say that students will be progressing through a slideshow rather than just scrolling a PDF okay yes so does that work with google slides question yeah if it's just like a pptx and you upload it into a page it's not going to look really great it's going to look like that pdf if you upload it to office 365 it's stored online and that's where you can get the embed code okay yep great question thank you okay just to use that same page do you create videos for your class instructional videos or do you find stuff on youtube yeah okay either a little bit of both right both create and curate so I have a video of that same slideshow and so what I want students to do is to watch that video so embedding with youtube is quite easy right and so I would not just put a link you know just an external link instead I would put it on a page with some instructions so here I have this youtube video that I created of that same slideshow so students can hear me I go to what share right now what what embed I get the embed code I'm going to go back to that page so I would put something like please watch this video take notes on the handout provided in class or something right so again two ways to embed the three dots in the cloud or the toggle on of the embed code paste it in and there it is okay and I'll toggle back off see if it works yeah there it is okay so there's the video now if I have a handout at my school we do create some packets even for classes that never come in person the students pick up and I don't know if you create instructional video do your students just watch that video and just absorb and remember everything do they yeah I usually provide them with a note taking form so it will have things that they need to listen and fill in the blanks because they don't know how to take notes and they're just possibly watching they're not going to remember tomorrow so I have a handout that they get the paper but sometimes they're confused what page I don't know where this is blah blah blah so what you can do with word or pdf is you can embed without having to put anything online you can sort of embed a file so let's say here I have this video and I want to put some instructions I put watch this video and take notes on the handout this is the handout okay so I created a handout like a listening guide and I have it as a file how do I insert a file into a page do you see up here which one tell me when to stop you're right okay yes so I have a I'm going to upload it I have it on my desktop here it is a handout to go along with that video they have the physical paper handout but you know there's a visual for them to match it up with what's in their hand um in their packet I click submit well here it is but let me just save let me just save will your students they're on a phone for example they may know that this is a download button but what's going to happen what's going to happen they're going to download this it's going to take them to another window or so what we want to do is make this visible in line okay so I'm going to go back to edit again and right now it just looks like a link I'm going to click on that what do you think now link options now what preview in line okay preview in line will make just if I just use this they're not going to see the full thing it may be a little bit slower to load but I want them to see the full handout kind of like it's embedded so I'm going to choose preview in line and expand preview by default okay and done let's see how the internet is here one thing to mention if I want some if I want this now this is something I maybe I wouldn't know that students even do because it's not an assignment it's just a page it has no point value or anything if I want this to appear on students to do lists when they log in on the right panel I'll show you my to-do list in a moment teachers have a to-do list when something gets submitted you see that on your to-do list I'm going to give it a due date so students will kind of be reminded that is they'll see that on the to-do list I'm going to give it a due date and I'm going to add it to the student oh sorry publish not that one we'll publish it today we'll make it to-do list they need to do that by Monday okay we'll just say now it's going to appear on their to-do list let's save it and see what it looks like see how the internet is okay so they see the video I would have put some instructions there and here it is it could be a pdf or a word document but they can see it's not just as a link so but if it's like that they haven't annotated it or anything no so if you made it instead an assignment with that video in the notes and then you blocked it as annotate then they could annotate it like notes true they're submitted and then they would have a record of it with all that's true they could that would be yeah if you wanted really like accountability for if they wanted to make notes right there yeah yeah they could do that too another option yeah definitely it doesn't work on phones yeah exactly if I made this as an assignment I could also have like a text box where they are typing in some words too yeah exactly um it could it could be the assignment is a google form that they they fill out after they watch the video for me I'm just happy if they watch the video so yeah so um let me go home and look at the student view for a second because let's see if it appears on the to-do list it appears on the to-do list for the student right there so at least that's a reminder and once they've you know I'll talk about um how you can add prerequisites and things in just a moment okay question go ahead say that one more time sorry you recommend um no I don't I don't know if you can well let's check it out you're asking great questions announcements so let's say I added an announcement can you put it on the to-do I've never seen that before ah Monica do you think I don't see I don't think you can put it on the to-do the announcements are not my favorite because they like here I can embed something in an announcement but when it comes to their email it's gone so you want to use only hyperlinks and announcements not embedding it won't come through in the email it will come through on canvas but when they get the email announcement in their email anything you've embedded is gone from the announcement unfortunately so something I really I don't see I don't see an option of to-do for announcements but that's a great question and you know what canvas it's open source and they take many different teacher recommendations and suggestions like one I would really love is um if you use google sites any of you create a google site you know when you create a google site you can click on to see what it looks like on a widescreen and a phone I would love that on campus because when I look at something that I've created on a phone it doesn't look as good that would be nice so we should give those suggestions I'm going to go ahead and go back to my home page all right so you asked about google google docs google let's say that I have let me go here one second okay let me close some things out okay we talked about that we talked about that we talked about that okay let's say you want to embed a google doc in a page that's so easy it's changed just a little bit um what you'll need to do is go file and you'll want to go to share now what this changed just recently published to the web and then you get the embed code that's how you can embed a google doc in and that's really nice some teachers build all of their canvas courses on google docs yep so I've got a google doc go to file used to be in a different spot share publish to the web and then you see the link but you also get the embed code very similar with google slides if I just share right here and they're just going to have a hyperlink they're going to have to open it in a new tab and you know chaos so instead go file share publish to the web embed and then you will see a nice slide show viewing as a slideshow embedded in a canvas page okay good question I imagine I I'm not a numbers person so I wish I could google forms okay slightly different google sheets yes thank you google forms slightly different I have I use google forms to to get feedback from students week two week four okay and so instead of just sending the link I put it in a page with some instructions please you know fill this out so I go to send and there it is the embed code okay well sometimes we may want to embed other sites so someone mentioned quizlet okay you could just put the link here yeah but then you know students there's so many different activities maybe I want them to do some of the activities so with quizlet where you're looking for the embed code after you see your flashcard stack I believe it's the three dots the three dots okay for quizlet you go to embed but then you choose which activity you want to embed in your pages I want to embed match learn test flashcards only the flashcards so students are not leaving canvas it's inside canvas still okay um do you use word wall anybody I love it okay you need to check it out you create an account I think I'm not logged in really quick so let me log in okay so to find you can create with a free account I'm all about free you can um you can create I think it's three to five activities okay with a free account you can just find other people's activities it's so much easier so let's say that I am teaching oh I don't know let's go to um so what you need to do is go to community down here my students love this the gen z the gamification right um so I made an activity once uh it for teaching modals um I tried it out the first time I sent students to zoom a breakout rooms show someone someone shared their screen and they were working it looked like a pacman game I couldn't get them back from the breakout rooms they were loving the game so much and so let's say I'm teaching jaren's and infinitives just to give an example you want to go through the game first because sometimes people from other countries are created like if you teach grammar I don't agree with some of their grammar okay but let's say that I like uh this one okay so I choose one the embed code is right there for me right there right there right there okay the embed code is right there um once in a while a padlet same sort of thing padlet go to share embed code right there okay but sometimes you have a website that you really like and you want to put in canvas let's say I'm doing simple present tense uh hello I don't see any embed code oh I can't embed it I'm just gonna have to link it no I want to embed it I will embed it how can I embed it there is there are multiple tools but this is a simple one I frame generator it makes the code for you so let's say I like this simple present tense copy the url go to i frame generator paste the url generate oh okay let's try it out real quick let me go to my pages and make a page and see if it works oh my goodness makes me so nervous but I'll try it I don't know I don't know you know my luck is sometimes on a wavering um simple present tense game remember there are two ways I can go to the cloud here or the uh embed toggle some pages may be very vertical or very horizontal okay if you find out like let me just go ahead and publish it and see what it looks like I'll just save it if you find out oh no it's students are gonna have to scroll look at that I don't want them to have to do that that's okay I can go back here and I want to go back to the embed code so I toggle that back on and I'm not a coder I'm not a coder you just play around with it I see that the width is 600 and the height is only 400 so let's multiply it by three or something right let's let's just try that out six times three help me 1800 it might be too huge maybe I'll just go a little by little let's let's change this to eight yeah double okay I like that one what was this 1200 800 thank you thank you math people in the house I frame and better it's still I might want to work with a little bit better but now students are still inside campus okay all right I think what time do I finish six minutes get no um thank you that was my next thing I frame and better will not work with all websites like jam board jam board as you know it doesn't even work well on phone students need that app so then you need to work with your it people to have the jam board integration with canvas okay it just won't embed okay so sorry about that same for my google site with the multiple tabs it won't work with the i-frame and better so a couple more things let's say that I go here and I'm just playing around and I I delete that oh no oh my god what did I do I was working on that for hours there is something called undelete it's not foolproof it's not 100% you go here to the name of your course you can see I have the name of my course it's my school my courses my course number I'm not going to go to pages I'm going to delete that and put undelete the word undelete please please you can see what you've deleted thank you canvas oh so then I can restore things okay it's not foolproof another thing with pages assignments and so on say you made a little change like oh I like it how it was before actually I don't I saved it what am I going to do well pages have a history as well did you know that oh my gosh you're learning so many things today so I just maybe I want to revert to the preview it will show you all your previous versions and you can revert to a previous version all right I think I have like two or so minutes sure so you just go to your course title up there in your you go and delete everything except for now I don't know how your school does it my school will have courses and the course number and after that last forward slash type in the word undelete and then you'll see the undeleted items okay last thing that I want to talk about really quick is um just prerequisites and requirements okay so I have this module I have it all oh it's my favorite module oh I love my okay students you are inexperienced they make oh I'm gonna go ahead and um take the quiz right now oh you didn't look at it the other stuff first if you want to control how students progress through a module you have that control once you've created your module you go to the three dots for your module then you go to edit okay maybe you I don't know about you how many how many modules do you publish at a time and have available to students your whole course I just do like one week at a time because um you know I met a teacher once who teaches in the math department in my school she goes she teaches 16 weeks and she said I just publish everything for me I must I would be a student like oh my god oh my god I have so much to do here now I understand that some students need to see everything to pace themselves my students I don't let them jumping ahead I scaffold my lessons in a way that I don't want them jumping ahead two weeks so you can add a prerequisite of a module that they finish one module or view one module if you're publishing more than one module that they've viewed and gone through one module before they go to that module you can control that if you're publishing more than one module at a time that's prerequisites but otherwise within your module each item you go to requirements okay so my first one is just introduction objectives what you're going to learn I just want them to view it that's okay that's all okay then I go to the next item the second item down is the note taking this is what you were talking about making the note taking an assignment I don't want I don't want them just to view it I want them to mark it so they're going to get this little circle that they have to check off when they've done it mark as done then I go to the next one let's say the next one is I believe a discussion let me see where's the discussion well I can't find it let's just imagine do I have it there there is discussion I want them not just to view the discussion no they have to contribute to the page okay etc so then they're they're going through in the order that I kind of want them to go through right so those are requirements and then I can update all right um and then I think that's just all the time I have left now let's say I created this course and I want to copy it over well then what I do is um your school may have different ways to do this but if you're copying copying within the same account within the same um you know school then um what I can do is I can simply um I can go to the settings and export and then I have my new course so here's the export button this one will actually download okay this one will download this would be really good if you're teaching at a different school so I quit this job and I get another job but I'm going to keep my content I I can download this file and upload into my new school's account or what I can do if I'm at my same school is simply I go to um I go to my new account and I import and my new course is empty so I select from one of my past courses like that okay so that's all the time I have thank you for joining me yes I'll put the hand up one hand out yeah there it is all right um thanks everybody