Canvas in the Classroom: Using Canvas During Face-to-Face Instruction

So my name is Sarah Fin. I just finished my first year as an IT RT, instructional coach, instructional design. Lots of names for the same thing. That's a little nuances in there depending on where you are. I'm in Sussex County, Virginia. One thing about Virginia is Canvas is our statewide LMS.

So if you're a school district that uses Canvas, the state actually pays for it, my district was an early so then my question for people that districts that don't use Canvas, why? Why wouldn't you? We were actually early adopters of Canvas, before the state adopted it. Oh, it's perfect. So, a few other things about me. I became a I'd educator, I recently for fun that the quizzes game changer, if you've never done that, it's super fun and easy and free. I'm level one Google, and it's not there.

But Virginia has its own version of iste, so I am also a Visty certified coach. I just finished that, at the end of this past school year. So we're gonna do a little activity, mostly to get me less nervous. So you guys are the one you can stand up if you want to. You don't have to, but You're gonna be looking in different directions.

So I'm gonna give you a prompt. You're gonna look left. When I say look left, you're gonna look right up down. Everybody clear? Okay. And then I'm gonna change it up on you.

Alright. So look left. Don't know why I just need that. It look right. Look down.

Click up. Look down. Like, right? Look left? I haven't even changed the rules yet in somebody up. That's okay. So now for fun, we're gonna change the definition of up and down.

Down is now up and up is now down. So let's see how you guys do. Start with Easy, right, and left are still the same. So let's look right. And left.

Alright. Look up. Let's go back and down. Cool. And then, so remember, we change the definition.

Alright. Look left. Look down. Look right? Alright. We're done.

So for some of us being introduced to Canvas was not quite completely changing the definition of things, but it was for some people. That were technology resistant. So I was a guinea pig for Canvas, and I had to work with coworkers to teach them Canvas And you are completely changing the definition, but what you what you could you take from in the classroom without an LMS. And then put it on the LMS. So some of these things are from personal experiences or from that perspective.

Just put that disclosure out there. So anybody ever said or heard, why do I need to use it when we're at virtual anymore? Have you ever heard that? So I'm an ITR team, the building I taught in. Which is an interesting dynamic because you have coworkers going, oh, you know me? I'm like, yeah, I do. But I'm in your role. So things in this presentation are gonna be answers to that statement.

And then why do we need to use it when the students can't take their devices home? That was something we experienced this past school year where the building admin said, well, they're not gonna be allowed to take them home. So that created a whole different dynamic for all of our teachers that likes to put homework in Canvas. So my school district is small, and internet is iffy in the rural County of Sussex. And the high school students were initially the only ones allowed to take devices home, elementary, and middle day stay in the building. So that was an assessment.

And this is, a graph from an Elite survey from July of twenty twenty two. So they wanna increase devices. But you'll notice, like, learning your system is halfway down. So cool. You wanna use the devices, but then why aren't you using the LMS? So Hopefully, we can fix that.

So going paperless, if you forgot to make copies and you have a digital version, stick in canvas. That actually saved my butt in the classroom way too many times. I'd be, oh, I'll get to work early and I'll make copies. No. You can put assignments.

You can if you have a digital version of textbook, you can link that in Canvas. Resources so that students aren't filling up their bookmark bar or that you have a resource page or resource module It's all there accessible for students. And this is also an opportunity where you can use that technology integration model that slide is not here. It's okay. So Sam, it's a substitution augmentation, modification, and then redefinition.

Is one that I have worked with. So substitution is just taking it from paper to electronic, but then there's different features you can use within canvas to then augment that assignment. And modify and redefining is like really going above and beyond. So this is from new quizzes. If you've never seen that before.

So you can put a reading and put questions next to that reading, and you can do different of questions next to that reading. And it looks a lot like a standardized test. And then That's a video. Anything I assume on my part? So this is, a really cool feature in new quizzes where you can have an image and then choose where you want them to click. So that would be some elementary vehicles.

And then the module at the top when it gets to it. So this is a module that I used when I taught US history. I had the warm up questions in there, the readings that they used to complete the homework. So the homework was on paper, but the reading was electronic. There were assignments, and it's going to click on one.

Where part of the assignment was on paper, and then the other part of the assignment was in Canvas. So I wasn't completely paperless. But there was an effort to not use as much paper. So they had their readings here. They were uploaded as images, but you can also upload it as a PDF.

There we go. Here's the summer picture. Alright. Flip classroom. So, I was actually resistant to flipped classroom when I was in the classroom, initially because We weren't always one to one.

And then it's also the issue of internet access for our students. But it's a great way to have resources for students that happen to be absent or need remediation. You can record your instructional videos. You can upload useful YouTube videos. And you can utilize, I use pages to deliver the content.

And a huge plus of classroom if you can do it in its traditional sense is it gives you more time in the classroom to go past the surface. Glow deeper, understand the why of things, have discussions, do more activities, have students engage with the content and not just sit there and listen to talk. So this is a page. I had videos, images, and text. I use this both when we were virtual and in the classroom.

This was one of the pages they would actually use to complete a homework assignment. Alright. External apps. One of my favorites is Nearpod. And I'll show you an example of using Nearpod.

But they integrate into Canvas. So they can either be used directly in Canvas, or Canvas will link you to it. I had students that would put in the wrong code for Nearpod on purpose. High schoolers love to do that. Then I had students that would do it accidentally, because we all also have those students.

So activity will launch straight from Canvas can be completed right there in Canvas. They mentioned, yesterday. Alright. Somebody say there's over eight hundred now. So there's just so that anything you could want.

Ed puzzle is another favorite that I convinced some teachers to use. Some of these, you can add yourself depending on how you have access to things. Some of them have to be added by your Canvas admin. So you'll find what you wanna use. So you're dead puzzle and you click add app, and it's gonna ask for a consumer key and a shared secret.

That you can actually find on EdPuzzle. If you set up your class in EdPuzzle and they wanna link it with Canvas, EdPuzzle will give you that information. But not all external tools will. So here's a Nearpod that I had students complete. It can be Student paste or it can be a live lesson, you can link both.

So the best practice is to click open a new tab, and when it opens in a new tab, It gives you this gray button, as soon as click on the gray button, and then go to Nearpod. I liked that I could see my Nearpod report in SpeedGrader. So I didn't have to toggle between the two. The Nearpod report when the students were done with it, even if they're not done with it, you can see their progress. And then it will refresh and give you a different report when they're done with it.

And you just stick your grade right there. So that was really nice. You don't have to toggle between the two. And there are other external apps that do the exact same thing. In MasteryPaths, is unfortunately not something I got to experience in the classroom with students.

I was all gung ho to do this in my personal finance class. And then found out there was an ITR key position open. And I was like, nope, I'm jumping ship. I'm leaving the classroom. So I didn't actually get to do this with students but the concept is really cool.

It does take some work. But I think it's worth the effort. The one thing you're gonna wanna do is in your course settings that image at the bottom, make sure that box is check, and that's something you can get with your Google admin on, not your Google admin. Your team is admin. Alright.

Bye bye. So being able to to enable the individual learning pass for students, and then you go and set it up. This can be used for station rotation, remediation. It's just I like to use it to support differentiation. Well, kind of the teachers in my book.

So you have your quiz all set up. You have your questions and you have your point values. This, of course, they wouldn't be a single point of peace, but for the sake of an example, there's a matric path tab at the top, and if they've gotten, and you can adjust those scores on the side. If they've scored within a certain range, they can either advance to another activity or you pick what activity they go to next. Based on the assessment.

So if they don't do so well, you can have them do a review activity before they move forward. You can also build in a an additional assessment after they've done the review activity to make sure there is understanding before they move more move forward with the content. So that example would have been. I think the ticket. So in your module, you can see, things that are match three packs.

You can see what they go to next based on their score. And if you're still in the assessment, you can look over on the right hand side. Is in the video. But if you deliver a brother right hand side, you can actually see how many students were in each of your categories. So it is good for, formative formative assessments and data collection.

And if you are kind of stuck. The Canvas comment has all kinds of resources. So if you're not sure what to do, and you're looking for an activity, or module or, even a whole course. Check out the famous comments. People have put in work and shared it.

Also, within your district, you can, like, work in your team to build a course. And you can put things in the commons that's just accessible to people in your district. So the commons doesn't mean it's for everybody all the time. You can signify whether it's gonna be for everybody, or if it's just within your district. Alright.

There's a QR code to get legal slide version of my presentation. Anybody have any questions or additions? Because That was not an exhaustive way of using hands in the classroom. You can also use it if you have a project you want students to do, and you want to gauge their interest and what the topic they would to be researching. That's how I experienced, MasterPass and the Canvas certified educator. They were in different topics that we are going to be assigned to research, but we were allowed to go in and answer questions and based off of how we answered those questions, that's how we got the topic.

So it wasn't just completely random. We were then assigned in a topic that we had interest in. So and then The only thing there is you might end up with people that there's a topic that nobody researches. So any No. I'm working on Working on that with IT, because I have teachers that would love to use new quizzes and They're just the kids can open another tab.

And they're not super thrilled with that. So there's resistance to use it for an actual a legitimate summative assessment. So I'm working with our IT department and convince them to do a lot of time around their fingers crossed.