Do you know how to navigate Canvas?

Understanding your learning management system will help you in both designing effective learning environments and teaching using Canvas. Take some time to familiarize yourself with some of the Canvas basics.

Learning Objectives

In this module, we describe how to get started with Canvas. By the end of this module, we hope you will be able to begin to use basic strategies for using Canvas tools to organize your migrated courses. We have also provided a Canvas Course Migration Checklist in 1.5.

Table of Contents

1.1 Getting Started: Technology Requirements and Getting Help

1.2 Getting Started: Canvas Basics

1.3 Getting Started: Modules, Content, & Discussions

1.4 Getting Started: Assignments, Grading, & Quizzes

1.5 Course Migration (from Blackboard to Canvas)

Alert!

This course is a mix of course components created by the Coulter Faculty Commons team, Indiana University through Creative Commons, and other resources. Some pages may refer to tools and applications that we do not have or support at WCU, such a Google Drive and Kaltura. Some of the videos that are part of the content used from Indiana University will show Canvas with their own branded layout.

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