First, you will need to familiarize yourself with Canvas as a Learning Management System.

Canvas is a fairly new Learning Management System that is gaining ground in a competitive market.

Canvas was designed by Instructure as an open source learning management system. It can act as a non-commercial LMS that you install on your server or as a commercial system that is housed in Instructure's Salt Lake City, Utah, USA servers. It is a bit like a "hybrid" between commercial and non-commercial.

Instructure has been providing teachers free accounts (with a few limitations that do not seem to hamper full utilization).

Please begin by viewing the Canvas Interface Overview Video

Create an account: It is sometimes difficult to find the link to the free teacher's account, so here is the link for you. Just click on "I am a Teacher".

In the chart below are some areas requiring research, practice and presentation for your team. Together you will need to decide who will be responsible for which area(s).

Select one or more of these areas to be covered. Each area has been given an approximate difficulty level so that you can decide together who would best suit which area.

1. Easy
2. Moderate
3. Can be complicated
4. You need to be fairly tech savvy for this one

Learn and Play.

All learning material can be found here:

• Canvas Instructor Guide
• Canvas Video Guide

Prepare your Collaborate presentation and practice.

It may be a good idea to get feedback from a member of your team.

Collaboration presentation to your LMS team must be completed by Sunday, March 16th.

• Link to Rubrics Page
• Assessment rubrics for this course can be completed on the course "Required Forms" page

This set of lessons, icons, & criteria by Avi Luxenburg is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Leading2Learn.ca