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Welcome to a 'Course Walk Through' of my Behavioral Statistics in the Canvas LMS.

I'll share the several of the benefits of Canvas, provide a course walk through, state the principles that guided my course rebuild, and then wrap up with the lessons learned along the way.

For resources to help you with Canvas, consider the MiraCosta TIC, @One, Instructure Canvas Guides; I have also developed a Communicating With Canvas mini-course.

To get started, click on a topic below.

Benefits

Canvas is mobile device friendly and (2) Keeping students on track with assignment deadlines. In addition, while rebuilding my course in Canvas, I took the opportunity to make simple changes to improve accessibility.

Walk Through

My course is designed for use on regular and mobile computing devices (e.g., Android and iOS phones). View the short course orientation provided to students (4 minutes in length).

Better Access (For People, Across Devices)

When rebuilding in Canvas, the following helped tremendously to make my course more accessible to a diversity of people using a diversity of devices.

Adjusting to Canvas

Canvas provides multiple points of entry to an assessment (and/or start of modules - using Calendar Events). I worked to enhance these points of entry for my students. Additionally, since students can arrive directly on an assessment, I also considered how to put them back in touch with the rest of the learning module.

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What I Learned Along The Way: Helpful Design Tips & Info

Here are the key design tips and methods applied to the rebuild of my online Behavioral Statistics course in Canvas.

Video Guides for Building Your Canvas Course - From the Ground Up

Get a step-by-step walk through in how to design a course using Canvas - with discussion of both pedagogy and technology. Topics include the Canvas Course Menu, Canvas Assignments, Screencasting, Canvas Resources for Students, Graded Canvas Discussion Boards, a Centralized Discussion Board for Students to Post Questions, Canvas Quizzes, Canvas Modules, Using Zoom Meetings, Hosting Content with Google Drive and YouTube, Creating a Canvas Home Page, and Canvas Announcements. This playlist (i.e., online Canvas Workshop) presents each and every step for designing your Canvas course.

Course Design With Canvas (from A to Z): Play List

Canvas Course Walk Through

Canvas course design overview: Robert Kelley