Institutions may choose to include additional Canvas features specifically designed to meet a variety of institutional, educational, and learning needs. Canvas Catalog is a digital marketplace where students can register, enroll, and pay for courses.
Canvas Studio is an interactive video management platform that enhances student engagement and collaboration. Canvas Commons is a learning object repository where teachers can store course content for their own use and for collaboration with colleagues both within and outside of their institution. MasteryConnect allows designers and teachers to build, deploy, and manage formative and summative assessments across an institution.
It provides schools with actionable data to improve teaching and learning. Portfolium is an ePortfolio platform that integrates directly inside of Canvas. However, students also always have access to their Portfolium portfolios outside of Canvaseven after they lose access to the LMS. Canvas includes the following six standard user roles: Admins , Designers , Instructors , Teacher Assistants , Students , and Observers.
However, institutions may create any number of custom user roles with varied Canvas access. For example, Canvas administrators may have access to create user accounts, add course enrollments, and manage institutional grading periods. Instructional designers may use Canvas to create and manage course content and review course analytics to identify areas for improvement in teaching and learning. School counselors may use Canvas to review student course progress and assess student achievement.
Parents and guardians may use Canvas to review and communicate with instructors about student course progress, including assignment submissions and grades. Anyone can use Canvas. New admins can check out the Admin Getting Started tutorial for information about setting up an account for their institution. Instructors can use the interactive Getting Started with Canvas flowchart to learn how to quickly and easily get a course ready for student participation.
Students and observers may be automatically enrolled in a course by their institution, or they may receive course invitations via email. Once enrolled in a course, students can participate with their instructors, course materials, and peers. To try a free version of Canvas, sign up for a free Canvas account. More information about utilizing Canvas can be found in the Canvas Community , including how-to Canvas guides, question and answer forums, and special interest groups. If you find a typo or outdated info, or have a suggestion to improve this guide, please share your feedback.
Additional Products. Interest Groups. With learning tools that support instructor innovation and student engagement, Canvas is more than higher education software. It's a platform for student success. Fortune companies can now build large-scale training and development programs with the intuitive software their employees used and loved in college. There's a lot we can say about the Canvas learning ecosystem, which includes the user-friendly Canvas LMS, but we only have so much space. Here are just a few of Canvas' education-boosting benefits:.
Keep using your tried-and-true content and tools, and try some new ones, too. Canvas is powered by one of the largest, most active, most connected educator communities on the planet. These folks are an endless source of innovation, information, and support.
Our partners are thoroughly vetted technology, service, and content providers who share our commitment to providing stellar teaching and learning experiences. New Caney Independent School District uses Canvas as a central starting point for all teaching and learning and MasteryConnect for frequent checks for understanding.
Now this forward-thinking district can plan beyond immediate online learning needs and build an ecosystem where everyone—students, parents, and teachers—can thrive. Canvas must be used for all face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses. Discussion Team has determined that the minimum expectations for faculty using Canvas are to post the course syllabus, respond to Canvas messaging, and use the grade book. Training for Canvas use will be provided via Faculty Development.
Banner is another fundamental technology at the institution. Adam Dastrup, President, Faculty Senate. Clifton Sanders, Provost for Academic Affairs. As you use Canvas you also help SLCC achieve some of its goals and maintain national standards, which include:.
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