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This little video is just to get you started so you'll understand how
the Canvas site works, and you'll know where to find things.
So, you see in front of you the main page from Canvas site.
We're on our homepage right now. Basically, in the "Announcements" that will be
reminders of what's due that week, sort of where we are, anything useful
like a news thing that we might need to give you. "Modules" is where you'll spend most
of your time. That's where the actual course information is,
and you will see that is broken into segments. So, we have
the "Homepage." We have "Course Information" - which is sort of the
general information about this class including how to get around in this class.
Then we get into the "content." There are eight modules of
content. Within each module, you'll see basically the same sorts of things.
We have a basic description of what that module covers.
We have a number of videos.
We have suggested activities - and since you're not doing this for credit, most of you,
then those are just things you might want to try just to enhance your knowledge of
the subject matter.
If you are doing it for credit or think you might want to do it for credit, there are things
within the suggested activities
that are recommended and that you would turn in
if you do plan to take it for credit. Each week we'll have some sort of
"Discussion"
that just allows the people in the class to talk to each other about what's going on;
and each module has a "Self quiz",
so you can check your understanding of that. You could take the quiz multiple
times and then eventually we
will give you the answers, so don't beat yourself up if you don't get them
all right in the first place. So, let's take a look at how the videos work first
because
you sort of need to know how to manage those. I'm gonna go down to this one on
the madrigal from the third module
because it has the things that you will need to see.
So, you will have a video for each topic area -
I'll assume that you know how to use Youtube videos - this is your
time marker, so you can drag to different places. This little button right here's the
closed captioning.
So, if you want to see what I'm saying,
you can have the closed captions on. You can turn them off if you
rather not have the words on the screen. If you have them on,
you can also move them around; so they get out of your way or
whatever. They are also points in the videos where you will have links to
other videos, so me take you to one of those. Alright, so here's your link.
Click here for Fair Phyllis I Saw. So, I will have said
you need to listen to this piece and then you would click on this,
and it takes you out to
the video that I've referenced. So, you can go back and forth between the two
if is a piece that i'm gonna keep talking about.
So, you may also have within each module some
supplemental materials - biographies of composers, things like that - so
that be supplemental that's not information that's in the videos.
Alright, continuing down on the left we have our "Discussion Boards,"
and like this week you have "Introduce Yourself"
for the beginning. You'll find your "Quizzes" here,
and you could just click on it and take it and then you'll get your results.
I'm not entirely sure about the grades part if it's going to pop quiz grades in
there or not because it's new to me as well, so we don't know about that.
"People" is a list of everybody else who is taking the class. So, if you just want to
see who else is there and talk to them you may. So that's the general
view of how the Canvas site is going to be for this class,
and we do have someone who monitors the class on a regular basis; so if you have
questions about how things operate you can certainly post a discussion question
about that, and someone will answer it for you.
So, I hope you enjoy the course, and
go ahead and get started.