Exploring Canvas

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Ready to bring your teaching and learning vision to life? Canvas is ready too. The number one learning management system in North America. We invite you to join tens of millions of users worldwide who are already creating engaging, life changing learning experiences with this powerful platform. With over twenty seven million mobile app downloads and a thriving global community of educators and partners, Canvas is transforming and learning every single day. Let's explore some of the amazing features educators love. When building a course, you can nest it according to your institution's course hierarchy.

Give it a distinctive name and code, and then apply course settings that work perfectly for you. You can also establish feature options and integrations. You can set up tool access for certain roles. You can also confirm availability dates for your course, and give learners the pacing flexibility they need to succeed. For many of you, importing legacy content will be the easiest and most time saving way to add content in Canvas.

Canvas supports a variety of course and quiz export types, streamlining your move to Canvas no matter what system you're coming from. Even better, you can use Canvas Commons, our fantastic learning object repository, to find relevant content and import it directly into your courses. We have thousands of content items ready to help expedite curriculum building and establish best practices. Canvas allows for an impressive variety of content types, including quizzes, discussions, syllabi, and traditional assignment submissions. Set clear due dates, rubric criteria, and submission types to facilitate student learning and assessment with ease.

Once your content is created or imported, simply drag and drop your images and files, add outcomes and criteria for evaluation, and of course, check for accessibility. It's that simple. Organizing your content into modules is an excellent way to keep your curriculum structured and your students in the know about what's next for them in your courses. This powerful feature will also give you the flexibility to assign units of curriculum to your student roster or directly to individuals or groups. Once your assignments have been given and students have submitted their work, you can provide timely and constructive feedback using SpeedGrader, one of Canvas' standout features.

Annotate submissions directly, leave audio or video comments, and use rubrics for consistent and transparent rating. It's never been easier to give meaningful feedback. We know that communicating with students is absolutely key to fostering a connected learning community. Through user friendly communication tools, you can send announcements, participate in discussions, and use the inbox for personalized message that keeps students informed and engaged throughout their learning journey. And believe it or not, all the functionality you've seen in this video, from course content creation to communication, can be found in our dedicated mobile apps for learners and educators.

Both of which provide a streamlined intuitive way to accomplish critical tasks and stay connected wherever you are. There's so much you can do with Canvas. Visit the instructor homepage and request a demo today so you can dig deeper into the many incredible benefits of Canvas. We also suggest visiting our community at community dot canvas l m s dot com to hear from admins and educators who have helped make Canvas the number one LMS.